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Now displaying: 2016
Jun 5, 2016

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 

May 29, 2016

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

May 23, 2016

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

http://www.thornygames.com

 

The Gauntlet

www.gauntlet-rpg.com

 

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

May 15, 2016

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

May 8, 2016

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

May 1, 2016

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

Apr 24, 2016

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)

Apr 17, 2016

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/

Apr 10, 2016

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)

 

The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Apr 3, 2016

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)

 

The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Gauntlet Hangouts: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Mar 27, 2016

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

Mar 20, 2016

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/

The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Gauntlet Hangouts: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Mar 13, 2016

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)

 

Our Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Mar 4, 2016

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

The Gauntlet https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Gauntlet Hangouts: http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Feb 26, 2016

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

http://www.playontarget.com

 

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

Feb 19, 2016

This week we are joined by the awesomely talented and inspirational Meg Baker! 

 

Play List
Monster of the Week (00:40)
Freebooting Venus (4:13)
The Dread Geas of Duke Vulku (09:26)
Lacuna (12:04)

Giving Me Life
Museum & Game Design (14:50)
Rich! (17:20)
Her Story (17:58)

Interview Segment
Playing Nature’s Year (20:33)
Cider that definitely won’t kill you (26:26)
Emotion and vulnerability in games (27:49)
New game cycle (36:00)
Apocalypse World 2E (38:52)
The Final Question (46:16)

 

Night Sky Games: http://www.nightskygames.com

Lumpley Games: http://www.lumpley.com

Unruly Designs: http://www.unrulydesigns.com

The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Feb 12, 2016

In this episode, we are joined by guest host Hannah Shaffer. Here are the time codes:

 

Games We Played

Noirlandia (00:31)

Legendary Encounters (05:15)

Hot Guys Making Out (09:56)

 

Giving Me Life

Birthday Week (16:45)

Owl Con (19:21)

Gauntlet NJ (22:30)

 

Interview Segment

Questlandia (25:59)

14 Days (33:55)

Games People Play (44:33)

Accessibility of games for new players (48:00)

Damn the Man and Sentencing Day (53:42)

The Final Question (56:46)

 

Links:

Hannah's Website:

http://makebigthings.com

The Gauntlet: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

Gauntlet Hangouts: 

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Feb 5, 2016

In this episode, Dan rips my fucking heart out. Also, we discuss best practices for running a multi-session game as a one-shot. Here is the breakdown:

 

Games We Played

Codenames (00:40)

Ghost Lines (08.20)

Monsterhearts (13:25)

Dungeon World (totally not Jason)(18:07)

 

Giving Me Life

Wrapping-up a Long-term PbP (20:45)

Making a Murderer (23:28)

Dan ripping my fucking heart out (28:24)

 

Main Topic (34:15)

 

Our G+ Community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

 

Our Twitter: @GauntletRPG

 

Play a Game With Us! http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/

Jan 29, 2016

This week we are joined by Andrew Medeiros, co-designer of Urban Shadows and other fine Powered by the Apocalypse games. Here is a breakdown:

 

Games We Played

Hollowpoint (00:37)

The Watch (6:05)

Until Dawn(10:46)

 

Giving Me Life

Street Star (18:07)

Self-publishing (19:29)

Games with Massive Learning Curves (22:46)

 

Interview Segment

Urban Shadows (26:20)

The Forgotten (34:47)

Legends of the Guard (38:00)

Why PbtA? (41:28)

Drew's Inspirations (44:58)

In-production Heroines card game (47:39)

The Final Question (48:36)

 

The Gauntlet

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104672702589306017985

 

Twitter: @GauntletRPG

Jan 22, 2016

In this episode, we introduce our new Game Advocates segment, starting with Dungeon World. Here are the time codes for this episode:

Games We Played
Bath Salts (00:23)
Remember Tomorrow (07:30)

Giving Me Life
Downsizing (19:00)
Comic Strip AP (22:57)

Main Topic - Dungeon World Advocate (26:59)

Jan 15, 2016

It's a short episode this week as we talk about the giant list of games we played over the holidays and what's been giving us life.  Also, because the people demanded it, this week's show notes are new and improved with time codes:

*Games We Have Been Playing*
Time & Temp (2:49)
Heroine (4:21)
AW PBP (5:45)
Kapow! (7:50)
Mysterium (12:25)
Microscope: Union (15:14)
Regency Ladies (20:53)
Metal Showcase 11 PM (22:51)
Downfall (25:59)

*Giving Me Life (31:53)*
Fit Kids & Couch to 5K (31:53)
D&D Beach Reading (35:06)
Tiny quad-copters (39:02)

 

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