RPG Blog Carnival for January 2014: The Theme is Transitions

This month's RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted here at the Hereticwerks blog. The topic for the month is Transitions. What do we mean by 'Transitions?' Well, the established definition covers a lot of ground: "the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another."

What sort of Transitions will you make in your game or campaign this year? Will you be making the transition to a new game system, starting a new game, or picking up an old favorite? Are you going to take your first turn as a GM, or step back and be a player for a while? Or would you rather tell people about the kinds of transitions taking place within your game, the sorts of changes and transformations taking place among your characters or the game-world itself?

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A blog carnival is a cross-blog event where a group of bloggers collectively post something on a particular topic or theme, last month it was 'Taking Charge,' this month the topic is 'Transitions.' Each blogger handles the topic or theme however they like. Readers can then click from one participating blog to another through the course of the blog carnival, sampling a wide range of writing styles and approaches.

To follow the blog carnival, check back regularly through the month and read the comments on this post where, hopefully, participants will be leaving links to their contributions. At the end of the month, we'll compile a wrap-up post here on the Hereticwerks blog [link due: January 30, 2014] that will provide links to all of the blog carnival participants for easy access. You can take a look at past blog carnivals over at the Archive, which is currently being maintained by the RPG Blog Alliance.

To participate in the carnival is easy. Once you have written a post on this month's topic, leave a comment on this page with a direct link. You can use the RPG Blog Carnival image on your post if you like. You can right-click and download it from here or any other blog displaying it, or it is also available at the RPG Blog Carnival page. Feel free to do more than one post, we just ask that you leave a link for each of your posts here in the comments as each one goes live. It's super easy and the blog carnival is open to anyone who wants to participate, you don't have to be a member of the RPGBA.

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Transitions...
Fiction, games, life; they are filled with transitions from one level to the next. Joining a new group or leaving an old one. Starting out on a path to adventure, leaving the service of a former employer, setting up your own stronghold. Voyaging past the edge of the map, delving deeper than anyone has gone before, exploring an uncharted wilderness...or simply changing places at the bar. Having and raising children, either in-game or in life is a major transition. Gaining experience, going up in level, growing in power, moving up in the world—or crashing down in flames and madness; these are all transitions.

Coping with the repercussions now that you've been infected with lycanthropy, uploaded your consciousness to a machine, or been bitten by a vampire (sparkly or original flavor), are all interesting transitions. Maybe a character has decided to switch classes or professions; perhaps they'd like to drop the whole spell-casting business and take up the exciting role of a cat burglar instead. How has the mighty fighter adapted to his new hand, the one they bought from that weird peddler from somewhere unpronounceable? Where will the thief go now that they've been blacklisted by their Guild? Traveling to a new city, journeying to a new country, shifting to another plane, visiting strange new worlds, entering a new setting...

It's a wide open topic. Feel free to interpret it any way you like.

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with...

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