RPG Blog Carnival, April 2009: Humor and Gaming
The RPG Blog Carnival is pitching its tents here at A Butterfly Dreaming this month, and in honor of the day and the Dragon magazines of my youth, I say:
Send in the clowns!
Last month was hosted by The Book of Rev, on the topic of war, so to wind down, we’ll be taking a look at the lighter side this month. The topic is Humor. Silly items or monsters you’ve created for your games, parodies, funny stories about things your characters did, reviews of humor-based RPGs. If it has to do with roleplaying games and it’s funny, it’s in.
Once you’ve got your post up, please comment on this article with a link back so that I can more easily include it in the Roundup at the end of the month. Linking to this page should automatically generate a trackback, too, but I make no guarantees.
And remember to check out the previous RPG Blog Carnivals:
- August 2008: The Core Mechanic: Death and Undeath
- September 2008: The Fine Art of the TPK: Homebrew
- October 2008: Musings of the Chatty DM: Superheroes
- November 2008: The Dice Bag: Religion
- December 2008: Critical Hits: Transitions and Transformations
- January 2009: Unclebear: New Years Gaming Goals and Resolutions
- February 2009: The Core Mechanic: Monsters and Maps
- March 2009: The Book of Rev: War
Related posts:
- Humor and Gaming Blog Carnival Roundup
- Last Week for the Carnival
- RPG Blog Anthology: Kudos
- Starting a blog? Mind your layout.
- The Lighter Side
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- Pingback: Funny Feats — Dungeon's Master on Saturday, April 11, 2009
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Hmm, a tricky one for me on The Gamer Traveler (though on my personal blog, it should be ok).
Of course, I could always submit my post from today (see CommentLuv link).
Daniel M. Perez, The Gamer Traveler´s last blog post: Strange Graffiti on Dumas’ Tomb
Oh ho ho! Let me think about this one and I’ll get back to ya.
Mine’s in the queue. I’ll provide the link when it goes live.
Vulcan Stev´s last blog post: 31 Days to a Better Blog: Pre Challenge
Mine went live this morning. http://vulcanstev.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/aprils-rpg-blog-carnival-when-your-dm-shares-your-warped-sense-of-humor/
Vulcan Stev´s last blog post: April’s RPG Blog Carnival: When your DM shares your warped sense of humor.
Proof that the secret of comedy is timing – me missing the chance to post about my carnival post yesterday.
Game for a Laugh.
Can’t say fairer than that, can I?
satyre´s last blog post: game for a laugh
My addition to this month’s blog carnival, Funny Feats, is live now at Dungeon’s Master.
Ameron´s last blog post: Funny Feats
I wrote about notebooks and snuck a prank in at the end of it.
Easy Notebook Projects
I’m really not sure anyone else will get the humour in my entry. At the time I was more in shock than anything else
Bob´s last blog post: Suffering For His Art
My contribution, providing some suggestions of humorous indie RPGs, can be found here.
Ah, here we go.
Starting out with a controversial title: Why Funny Games Suck
Following up with some random Random Chimeric Monsters.
And finishing with some Random Loot-Imitating Monsters.
Anders Hällzon´s last blog post: Avoiding grind in D&D4
I have another contribution to the blog carnival: Gold, the web series.
My contribution to the carnival is a post about Roleplaying in the World of “On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness”.
Stargazer´s last blog post: Roleplaying in the world of “On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness”
Types of humour and how they can work – or not work – in RPGs. This was a hard one to write, I’ve been working on it all month…. hopefully it will inspire someone else to incorporate a bit more humour into their campaigns! You can read the blog here: The Right Quip At The Right Time: Humour in RPGs. And check out some of the other articles Johnn Four and I have posted while you’re there if you’re looking for even more inspiration!
My meager contribution for this month, on group mechanics and wiki bits.
Andre Vienne´s last blog post: April RPG Blog Carnival: Powered By Tropes – Comedic Roleplaying
My even more meager contribution, just a song I think gamers should hear. It looks like CommentLuv is picking up the link…
Chuck´s last blog post: The Games That I Play Only Have Twenty-Sided Dice
My contribution (which also showed up in the pingback)
Mad Brew´s last blog post: D&D Comic Strips
My contribution, while small, is here: http://www.thecoremechanic.com/2009/04/comic-from-dragon-1-rpg-blog-carnival.html
Poking fun at Wizards’s PDF policy when it happened this month. Sadly, here’s the only one I could managed this month.
http://questinggm.blogspot.com/2009/04/13-reasons-why-wizards-want-you-to-buy.html
Questing GM´s last blog post: Word of Wizards – D&D Test Drive
I have three for this month. The first is straight humor; the other two are attempts to take apart the concept of humor in a narrative.
Five Concepts to Kick-Start a Short Campaign
Humor: An Overview
Four Comic Relief Characters Who Aren’t So Funny
Ravyn´s last blog post: Villain Spotlight: Zora Aldebar
Great post. I love stuff like this post.