“Transitions and Transformations” RPG Blog Carnival Roundup

As usual, bloggers from all over took a simple one line concept and ran with it in all directions, many of them unexpected and all of them great. Here’s what they came up with in the final days of 2008 about “Transitions and Transformations.”

• Roleplaying Pro kicked things off by talking about transitioning your D&D 4e character from sucking to fixed.
• Perception is Truth makes some fascinating observations based around the premise that all roleplaying is transformation.
• Monsters and Manuals transforms Japan in a setting for Cyberpunk 2020.
• Chgowiz tells us about his transformation as an RPGer from system to system and newbie to pro.
• UncleBear’s Perception, Reality, and Writing RPGs is about the idea put in his head by the Wild Cards series to transforming his RPG writing to cash.
• RPG Blog II gives us some valuable advice on transitioning away from a case of Gamer ADD. 
• Tales of the Rambling Bumblers describes how and why to pull off a bait and switch: let the players in on one premise, and transform it into another. 
• The Verbing Noun riffs on the consequences of transforming your physical shape, and how it should be a bigger deal.
• The Dice Bag tells us about his one-way transformation from Player to GM.
• A Butterfly Dreaming talks about the transition from knights to guns (and provided stats!)
• I wrote a post about transforming your players for fun.
• A Butterfly Dreaming also talks about what happens to your party and your world when the transition to guns happens.
• I wrote another post, this time about the cosmology transition from previous editions of D&D to 4e.
• UncleBear haikus / transition this carnival / to poetic form.
• Initiative or What? discusses his transformation as an RPG player, involving a detour in Azeroth.
• Gaming Brouhaha discusses the transformation of his son into RPG-dom and how he pulled it off.
• How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less talks about her transition from D&D hater to D&D player.
• The RPG Diehard talks about the transition of one of his players from noble knight to stronghold commander.
• Stirges Suck gives us an analysis of the transforming 4e Druid class. 
• Mad Brew Labs brews up a post about transitioning to a new gaming group.
• Greywulf’s Lair talks about two different (but overlapping) transformations: from men, to heroes, to immortals, and the evolution of classic D&D.
• Neitherworld Stories is all about the classes which transform in D&D 3.5, and how to use that for more classes and other systems.
• Exchange of Realities finishes the carnival with a flurry of Transforming and Transitive based posts. The first two are about learning to lead: Growing into the Position and Power and Responsibility. The third is about Traveling and Narrative (a transition from one place to another), and the last about the transformation of holidays.  

And that’s it! The carnival has moved on to its next temporary home at Uncle Bear’s, so mosey on over there and give him some gaming New Year’s resolutions.