This week, Rich is joined by Andrea from the Ivory Thorns blog and Lowell from the Play on Target podcast.
Game Discussion
A new campaign of Dungeon World (00:56)
Threadbare RPG and running sessions at GenCon Games on Demand (06:35)
Working on some GM techniques in Masks (12:03)
As a GM, how much do you plan ahead? (15:16)
Walk With Me (19:24)
Using Microscope and Masks to set-up a campaign of Mutants & Masterminds 3E (22:50)
John Wick’s Cat (29:06)
Giving Me Life
Persona 4 Golden (37:58)
New Girl (40:12)
Doctor Who (44:15)
Links
Age of Ravens blog
http://ageofravens.blogspot.com
Ivory Thorns blog
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG
Game Discussion
The Innocent playbook in Masks (00:12)
Making the story work when you have a new player in the group (06:06)
Playing a nice Brainer in Apocalypse World (09:59)
Necessary Evil (12:10)
Some general Savage Worlds talk (14:36)
Death Frost Dungeon World kickoff (17:40)
Monster of the Week and using questions directed at the players to paint the scene (19:18)
“I rolled a saving throw and I liked it” aka Beyond the Wall (27:05)
Knowing when to hit the fast forward button on your story (30:28)
Fiasco (33:56)
The Sharknado playset (36:32)
Play culture and managing expectations in Fiasco (39:00)
Misericord(e) (42:33)
Giving Me Life
RPG-a-Day 2016 (51:32)
Dungeon Meshi (53:44)
Simon’s Cat (54:50)
Stranger Things (55:56)
Links
Simon’s Cat
https://simonscat.com/category/simonscat/
Our website
gauntlet-rpg.com
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Game Discussion
Lady Blackbird musings (00:43)
Beyond the Wall & feminist fantasy (08:01)
Shadows of Esteren (14:11)
Carolina Death Crawl (22:36)
Witch: Fated Souls & rediscovering campaign-length play (28:48)
Apocalypse World & introducing tough themes to new players (33:03)
Downfall (40:58)
Wandering Monster High School (46:34)
Giving Me Life
The return of Yay (51:41)
AD&D syndicated radio pilot from the 80’s (54:01)
Tea! (56:20)
Codex - Blood is out! (58:02)
Links
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG
Game Discussion
Curse of Strahd (01:12)
Dungeon Solitaire (05:56)
Running an old Dungeon module (10:56)
The Agency (15:58)
ICONS (22:04)
Crypts & Things (34:36)
Giving Me Life
DriveThru Christmas in July (45:12)
Overwatch (48:29)
Stop a Douchebag (51:28)
Links
Andrea's blog: http://ivorythorns.tumblr.com
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG
Game Discussion
Checking-in with your players via email (00:33)
Downtime moves and Uncharted Worlds (01:46)
Star Wars: Edge of the Empire (04:53)
Scenario play in Lovecraftesque (12:49)
Fury of Dracula (18:49)
1%er and making the call on when to go to the dice or cut the scene (24:51)
Qin: The Warring States (31:06)
Pandemic: Legacy (37:27)
Paranormal Rescue Squad playtest (43:50)
Giving Me Life
Pokemon Go (52:33)
Re-watching the Siberia TV series (55:48)
Using your roommate’s cool stuff (58:56)
Pinball Arcade (59:54)
Links:
Andrea’s blog
http://ivorythorns.tumblr.com
Our website
gauntlet-rpg.com
Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPGP
Game Discussion
Xia: Legends of a Drift System (00:13)
Sean Bean Quest and the limits of gonzo play (06:17)
Witch: Fated Souls (12:01)
Spyfall (21:13)
Mysterium Downloadable Content (25:45)
Pushing the poverty theme in Ghost Lines (28:56)
Dungeons & Dragons 5E (31:53)
Batman & Robin: Hot Guys Making Out (36:37)
The Beast (40:19)
Giving Me Life
The 50 Best Comedies Since the Year 2000 (45:23)
Setting up the game room (47:33)
Pokemon Go Carts (48:31)
Call for Codex submissions (49:44)
Links:
Tumblr-style page for Rich's Witch character
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D_Bj0Wd5Kil2N7fX_OxFgWNd80l7UQxi-rqsYc1Yt5g/edit?usp=sharing
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Twitter @GauntletRPG
Game Discussion
Two-page spread GM technique (00:14)
The Maroon Corps (03:12)
Grizzled card game (13:09)
Wrapping-up multiple storylines in a PbP (20:28)
Urban Shadows & Codex (23:55)
Follow-up on The Sprawl (26:19)
The Venture Brothers and The Final Girl (31:50)
Out of the Blue (36:46)
Giving Me Life
Star vs. the Forces of Evil (47:44)
Battle Bots (48:47)
Scott Selvidge’s Flags document (50:35)
Links:
Flags document
https://plus.google.com/102860402526090415450/posts/UEjcRNqdrMc
Our website:
Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Uncharted Worlds (00:16)
Khet/Deflexion (06:48)
The Woodlands (11:06)
Legend of the Elements (19:33)
Fuse (24:09)
Dungeons & Dragons 5E (27:57)
The Sprawl (32:11)
Jason’s note: I misspoke on this section. In fact, you get a die roll bonus for spending Intel, not Gear.
Giving Me Life
Cast a Deadly Spell (42:40)
100th RPG (44:06)
The Gauntlet family of podcasts (45:40)
Links:
Shadowrun video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
*Playlist*
1%er - The Outlaw Biker Game (01:22)
Origins 2016 (08:57)
Urban Shadows (10:49)
ViewScream (17:47)
World Wide Wrestling (23:00)
Golden Sky Stories (25:55)
Zombie World (29:54)
Time Cellist (38:33)
Links
Monsterhearts survey
https://plus.google.com/117063057763160926667/posts/5766pLuqTaG
Our website:
Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
GM-less, play-by-post Monsterhearts (00:36)
Middle Earth gaming (07:29)
Battlestar World (15:33)
Blue Rose Dungeon World (24:37)
Sagas of the Icelanders (34:07)
Crowsmantle (38:36)
Giving Me Life
K-Pop (43:35)
Lucha Underground (46:59)
Gauntlet Hangouts numbers (49:40)
Links
Drew’s Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/medeiros?ty=h
Sagas of the Icelanders
http://redmoosegames.tumblr.com/soti
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Crowsmantle (00:15)
Public Access (03:53)
Blue Rose (09:01)
Pandemic: Bio-Terrorist (19:37)
Touched by Evil (23:45)
Giving Me Life
A-Force comic (30:00)
Game of Thrones Season 6 (36:45)
Chuck Tingle (39:26) NSFW
Links:
Our website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Bring Your Own Book (00:51)
Dungeon World (05:07)
Tokyo Brain Pop (07:27)
Imperial Assault (16:36)
Cheat Your Own Adventure (26:51)
Legend of the Elements (28:25)
Masks (31:33)
Doom (34:37)
Numenera (40:21)
Community Feedback
Gauntlet Portland (47:00)
Discern Realities (48:49)
Links:
Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Dread (00:18)
Betrayal at House on the Hill (06:03)
Dungeon World (11:48)
Threadbare RPG (13:47)
Ugg-tect (21:18)
The Dig RPG (25:09)
Monsterhearts: Attention K-Mart Shoppers (31:05)
World of Dungeons, with a shout-out to Marshall Miller’s The Escape dungeon starter (39:05)
Dialect (43:30)
Community Feedback
The Final Girl is available for purchase again! (50:41)
Discern Realities contest (54:33)
Links:
Threadbare RPG Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mortaine/threadbare-rpg-a-stitchpunk-tabletop-role-playing
Dialect
The Gauntlet
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Dungeon World, with a shout-out to Michael Prescott’s Circle of Wolves (00:18)
Lovecraftesque (06:18)
World of Dungeons (14:37)
Monsterhearts (22:58)
Sins of the Father RPG (30:15)
High Strung (34:14)
Community Feedback
Isa’s character portrait by Dirk Leichty (39:35)
Gauntlet: Rubber City (41:29)
Tor Time (42:29)
Links
Isa’s character
https://plus.google.com/+IsaWills/posts/VyUT99gpZz4
Dirk’s Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/dirkleichty?ty=c
Tor’s story
https://plus.google.com/117582566260906817417/posts/J1WJMrLtj9A
Our website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
Gauntlet NJ update (01:07)
The Final Girl (01:53)
Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne (02:56)
Space Alert (09:56)
Cheat Your Own Adventure (15:16)
A Branch of May (23:19)
To Serve Her Wintry Hunger (25:33)
Fall of Magic (28:52)
Community Feedback
Tor’s Temple Island story (36:18)
Links:
Stephen Dewey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stephendewey?ty=h
Our Website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com
Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Playlist
The importance of transition sessions (00:21)
Some drive-by love for Lady Blackbird (08:51)
Rich’s game of Dungeon World with his wife & son
(09:48)
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (12:01)
A tale of two Masks (18:40)
Community Feedback
CATS story game set-up (25:55)
Sea Treasure Tables by Aaron Feild (35:47)
Website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com
Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Play List
Various flavors of Pandemic talk (00:50)
2nd session of Mass Effect Worlds playtest (06:39)
Michael Prescott’s Circle of Wolves (11:57)
Star Wars Risk (16:24)
Feeling better about Monster of the Week (21:17)
Further exploring the lack of an Interfere move in Monster of the Week (24:46)
High Strung (28:09)
Marc Majcher’s Fluffy Bunny Tea Party (33:36)
Masks RPG (38:47)
Community Feedback
Inspirations for role playing in other mediums (a follow-up discussion from Jason’s The White Ribbon post) (43:58)
Using the lingo of comic books to describe a scene in an RPG (45:32)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (48:26)
Victorian novels, Disney characters, and other ways of informing characterization (52:35)
Our Play Aids folder (54:54)
Quick mention of Tor’s posts about playing games with his kid (56:13)
Playlist
Something about strippers, booze, and cake (00:17)
Playtesting Mass Effect Worlds (02:09)
Dog Eat Dog (05:30)
Concept (09:23)
Enforcing tone - problems & solutions (12:20)
Teamwork in Monster of the Week (21:03)
XP and progression in Powered by the Apocalypse games (24:22)
“Use Magic” as a Basic Move in Monster of the Week (26:22)
The interplay between moves and fiction in Masks (28:40)
Imperial Assault (40:49)
Community Feedback
Rules & Rituals? Procedures & Protocols? Pernicious Pedagogies? (45:05)
https://plus.google.com/104787679004447304330/posts/jfwXhtnLgkk
Playing Dungeons & Dragons in VR (49:40)
https://plus.google.com/+DanielLewis/posts/jR9hGVntQgQ
Our Community Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/
Play List
Pandemic Legacy (00:56)
Monster of the Week (04:39)
Dungeons & Dragons and XP on a miss (06:05)
Too many players at the table? (10:48)
Ninja Burger RPG (13:27)
Gauntlet City Limits (16:21)
Adventures on Dungeon Planet (17:05)
Vast & Starlit (20:40)
We create an alien race (26:25)
Giving Me Life
Finishing Mass Effect 2 (29:49)
Birthday resolutions (30:23)
Phones? Lasers? (33:59)
Phablet? Fablet! (36:07)
Room 237 (36:58)
Cheating at video games (43:00)
Enjoying spoiler culture (44:16)
Consumer-level VR (obvi) (45:25)
Our VR LARP future (48:32)
Thanks for 50 episodes! (50:30)
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Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/
Opening Segment
Dungeon World and The Seclusium of Orphone of the Three Visions (00:16)
The glass cube (03:41)
Steve expresses his desire to play Dungeon World (06:04)
The importance of getting feedback from your group (06:45)
Getting a game back on track after it jumps the shark (08:06)
Monsterhearts is awesome (10:39)
Fiasco: Unaussprechlichen Klutzen (12:07)
Giving Me Life
GM Self-Improvement (15:00)
Thinking critically about your setting (16:15)
Baseball, I think? (17:43)
The Carcosa playlist (20:10)
Loving the Wednesday crew (22:26)
Main Segment
Ritual in Games (23:04)
Polaris’s use of ritual to enforce tone (24:00)
Society of Dreamers (26:17)
Helping dice in Burning Wheel (29:55)
Hand-shaking rituals in Beast Hunters (32:09)
Referring to players by their character’s name (34:49)
Archipelago III (38:23)
Start-of-game rituals and end-of-game rituals (41:23)
Meta/Out-of-character rituals (42:48)
Post-game rituals (46:46)
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Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Gauntlet Hangouts: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/
In this episode, writer and game designer Anna Kreider joins us to talk about The Watch (and much more!).
Play List
Star Wars World (00:44)
Masks (04:18)
Blades in the Dark (07:45)
Giving Me Life
Tetanus shots (16:29)
Co-designing games (18:00)
Slack App (19:44)
The Watch
Overview of The Watch (21:42)
Transgendered and non-binary characters in the setting (22:39)
Why is it important the protagonists are exclusively women? (23:33)
Gameplay structure (27:06)
Moves & mechanical frameworks (28:12)]
What’s next for The Watch? (31:45)
General Questions
How did Anna get into game design? (32:32)
Is hacking real game design? (34:38)
Diversity in gaming (35:55)
Final Question
Thou Art But a Werewolf (40:15)
Links:
Go Make Me a Sandwich: https://gomakemeasandwich.wordpress.com
The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985
Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Play List
Monsterhearts: ISS Tsiolkovsky (00:40)
Dungeon World: Chain World (05:40)
Galaxy Trucker (09:04)
World Wide Wrestling (13:10)
Giving Me Life
Looking at the entire DriveThru GM’s Day Sale (16:55)
Gothic horror novels and Sister Wolf (20:51)
Playing games with kids (22:40)
Super Friends! (23:58)
Lamentations of the Flame Princess (26:22)
What is a retroclone? (28:09)
17th Century England (29:54)
Strong horror elements (31:03)
Why not just play Ravenloft? (33:12)
Thulian Echoes (35:27)
What would you warn players about? (37:17)
What do others love about the game? (39:05)
What do others hate about the game? (40:10)
GWAR (44:47)
Closing thoughts on Lamentations (46:23)
Sarah’s Upcoming Projects
Bluebeard’s Bride (46:46)
Velvet Glove (tentative title) (48:41)
Links:
Sarah’s Website: http://www.scorcha.net
Chain World Episode 1: http://www.indieplus.org/2015/03/27/chain-world-episode-1/
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Twitter: @GauntletRPG
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In this episode, Rich, Steve & Jason originate the idea of the 'GGG player.' Here are the time codes:
Play List
World Wide Wrestling (00:32)
Star Wars World (12:08)
Apocalypse World PbP (20:36)
Toolbox
Pinterest Image Search (28:55)
Main Topic
The GGG Player (33:53)
Geared (35:52)
Giving (36:59)
Game (47:23)
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Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG
Mark Diaz Truman from Magpie Games joins us this week to discuss his completely legit, not-at-all socially irresponsible game Cartel. Here are the time codes:
Play List
Imperial Assault (00:51)
Mouse Guard (04:41)
Legend of the Elements (08:44)
The Watch (15:10)
Giving Me Life
Training for Marathons (19:30)
Cord Cutting (20:29)
Prepping Star Wars World (21:28)
Dreamation 2016 (24:50)
Cartel
Cartel and narco fiction (28:25)
The cartels and romanticizing violence (32:07)
Mexican culture and gaming (38:00)
‘External’ playbooks (41:10)
Having fun while playing unsavory characters (45:06)
What’s next for Cartel (53:41)
What’s coming-up from Magpie Games (58:29)
The Final Question
Continuing On Moonlight, from Episode 40 (1:01:04)
Links:
Magpie Games http://www.magpiegames.com
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Twitter: @GauntletRPG
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This week we are joined by Lowell Francis of the Play on Target podcast and Age of Ravens gaming blog. Here are the time codes:
Play List
13th Age (1:10)
Night’s Black Agents (4:43)
Star Wars D6 (14:38)
Giving Me Life
Baseball Tonight (18:16)
Origins Planning (20:06)
Owl Con (21:53)
Game Advocates - FATE (24:32)
Links:
Play on Target
Age of Ravens
http://ageofravens.blogspot.com
The Gauntlet
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985
Gauntlet Hangouts
http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/
Twitter: @GauntletRPG