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Blog Carnival: Super Heroes in RPGs

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The RPG Blog Carnival‘s idea started with Johnathan of The Core Mechanic (Although Geek’s Dream Girl used to do it too):

Then Donny the DM took up the torch

This month I offered to take up the torch and reinforce a nascent RPG blogging meme that has cropped up in the last few days.

Greywulf started it with all with ‘Let’s Play Super Dungeons and Dragons‘.

Stargazer ran with the idea with his ‘Fantasy Superheroes‘ post

So why not continue and talk about all things Super Hero this month? Not just Fantasy Superheroes (Although I adore the concept), but everything that can be used from that genre into RPGs.

It could be about your favorite Super Hero RPG, about cool characters and art concepts, it could be doing a  cross-genre experiment and injecting some Pulp in your Superhero juice or some Mutants in your Sorcery.

The rules are simple, you post about it and you leave a comment right after on this post.  My Commentluv plugin  should pick it up, if not, I’ll edit the comment myself to show the link.

I’ll participate too, with a much needed new entry in my trope series.

Up up and away!

Credits: Pam’s Twins, just because.

Comments

  3. WOW! I had no idea that Geek Dream Girl used to run a rpg carnival! anyone have a link? When I origenally had the idea to start it up – i googled it and only found some old carnival page from about 4-5 years ago on a blog that hadn’t been updated in about as long – and the carnival was not _really_ about RPGs either; more of a ‘gaming’ carnival. If Geek Dream Girl had the idea for doing a rpg blog carnival first – then, she definately gets PROPS and my apologies for claiming “first post!” so to speak. Hats Off!

    Superheroes! Love the idea; doubt I’ll be contributing – unless I could somehow spin zombies from hell as superheroes… nonetheless, i’m looking forward to the excellent contributions that will no doubt come forth.

    jonathans last blog post..D&D Flamed by Boise State Newspaper

  21. Keep them coming. I should do mine in the next 2 weeks or so.

    @Bob: The Trackback caught it fine! Thanks! Fricking Lasers it is!

  25. I haven’t been tackling this in a blog, but I’m working on re-writing the OD&D 1974 rules as if they had been written for superhero gaming instead of swords & sorcery gaming. A small group is discussing it with me on Google Groups.

  30. Wow, I’m amazed at the response this Carnival is getting! Just let me work through this passing writer’s block and I’ll join the fun!

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