The Gauntlet Podcast

Lowell sits down with Liz Chaipraditkul to discuss 7th Sea and much more! Timecodes Introduction (00:20) Heroes & Villains (03:34) The Crescent Empire (15:59) Orientalism and diversity in RPGs (17:50) Poetry dueling (!!!) (23:44) The Monster (24:43) Witch: Fated Souls (26:23) Familiars of Terra (30:29) Sig: Manual of the Primes (32:05) Cold Shadows (33:00) Afterlife (33:45) Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

This week Jason is joined by Fraser Simons, designer of _The Veil_ RPG! Discussion The Veil (00:18) Cascade (05:53) What is cyberpunk? (13:13) After The Veil & Cascade (20:32) Cascade Kickstarter (21:22) Giving Me Life Fall of Magic long con at Dreamation 2017 (26:01) Consuming Cyberpunk G+ collection (28:49) Links The Veil http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/199467/The-Veil-Cyberpunk-Roleplaying-Powered-by-the-Apocalypse?term=the+veil\++fraser+simons&test\_epoch=0 Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Jason, Rich, Lowell, and (for a few minutes) Kate sit down to discuss some of the games they played last month. Game Discussion Spirit of '77 (00:33) MASHED (15:42) Gauntlet League Wrestling (24:43) Giving Me Life Baseball spring training (37:32) The Best Picture Oscars snafu (39:12) What your hero smells like (44:53) Sherri's investigation board (47:28) Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Kate & Jason are joined by Avery Alder to discuss violence in roleplaying games. Introduction (00:12) Giving Me Bleed Dream Askew (00:56) Fiasco (04:08) Monsterhearts 2 (07:43) Discussion - Violence in Roleplaying Games Overview (11:15) Escalating stakes & climax (12:16) Why do roleplaying games often default to violence? (19:07) Power fantasy (22:06) Making space for something other than violence (24:51) "Combat System" (35:48) Giving Me Life Sourdough starter (44:41) Michael Flynn losing his job (47:58) Trudeau & Trump (49:08) Links Cold Shadows Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/cold-shadows-narrative-espionage-roleplaying Buried Without Ceremony https://buriedwithoutceremony.com Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Lowell sits down with science fiction writer Cat Rambo to discuss her experiences in the early days of the hobby, her work with the Science Fiction Writers of America, and more! Timecodes The Grimtooth story (00:55) Being a woman in the early days of the hobby (02:08) Tough experiences at the table (07:33) The Satanic Panic angle (11:47) Representation & justification for bad behavior (13:35) Moving beyond D&D (18:14) The convention scene (21:05) Call of Cthulhu bridal party (!!!) (25:21) Emerald City Comic Con (26:40) Admitting game writers to SFWA (29:37) Links Cat's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/catrambo The SFWA http://www.sfwa.org Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Jason is joined by Anna Kreider to talk about The Watch! The Watch Introduction (00:13) Overview of The Watch (01:04) Mechanics & design goals (01:51) Clans (07:20) An atypical story (10:26) Kickstarter (12:28) Giving Me Life Dreamation 2017 (17:04) The joy of swimming lessons (18:58) Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG Cold Shadows KS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/cold-shadows-narrative-espionage-roleplaying

Rich, Kate, Lowell, Steve & Jason gather 'round the hearth for our monthly gaming recap! Game Discussion Monsterhearts 2 (00:37) The Woodlands (09:44) Shooting the Moon (16:28) Apocalypse World 2E (20:32) Chill 3E (30:45) Giving Me Life The Women's March (46:03) The airport protests (47:19) MH2 PbP (48:30) Dragon Quest Builders & Miss Multiconsole (50:34) Fowler's projects (52:09) Links Cold Shadows KS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/cold-shadows-narrative-espionage-roleplaying Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Lowell is joined by Will Patterson to discuss gaming with kids! Timecodes Will's gaming roots (00:28) Why game with kids? (01:32) Tips for playing with small kids (06:29) Challenges & advantages of different RPG systems (12:14) Character death & tone (15:01) Hacking PbtA for kids (19:19) Running for kids vs running for adults (20:25) Playing The Sundered Land with a three-year-old (22:16) World of Dreams (24:19) Letting the kids GM (28:01) Some final thoughts (31:28) Links Article about executive function https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/expert-corner/2016/05/30/the-batman-effect-what-my-research-shows-about-pretend-play-and-executive-functioning Will's game, World of Dreams https://plus.google.com/100395114003715336076/posts/aLQYEtJntn5 Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Jason welcomes Oli Jeffery to the show! Discussion Introduction (00:13) Little Grey Cells (03:02) Codex (16:00) Clicks & Hums & Sirens & the Sun (22:23) Giving Me Life Our Nintendo Switch Slack channel (25:48) Gaming with the family (27:15) Links Sigil Stone on DriveThru http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/8026/Sigil-Stone-Publishing?term=sigil+stone&test\_epoch=0 Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Kate & Jason are joined by Stephen Dewey of Cavalry Games! What have you been bleeding? Overview of segment (02:25) Jason (03:33) Kate (06:03) Stephen (07:00) Main Discussion - Facilitating Emotional Play Overview (09:50) Setting the emotional agenda (12:06) Creating space for emotional play during the session (21:42) Understanding how emotion is evoked in a game's mechanics or setting (28:55) Validation as a tool for facilitating emotional play (41:04) Facilitating emotional play as a player (49:17) A preview of the next topic: defaulting to violence (57:39) Giving Me Life The Witness (01:00:30) Prepping for a new campaign (01:04:26) Getting my partner into Stranger Things (01:05:34) Chihuly exhibit & Nausicaa (01:07:00) Links Follow Stephen on Twitter @shiftyginger Support Stephen on Patreon: patreon.com/stephendewey Stephen's website: cavalrygames.com Kate's blog: bluestockings.ca Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

It's a celebration of our favorite games of 2016! Timecodes Our year in gaming (00:13) David's pick (04:22) Listener picks (08:36) Lowell's pick (10:14) Listener picks (22:18) Steve's pick (25:00) Andrea's pick (31:06) Listener picks (35:00) Rich's pick (35:28) Listener picks (49:37) Jason's pick (51:27) Listener picks (01:01:53) Closing (01:04:45) Links Cheat Your Own Adventure http://www.jellysaw.com/rpg/cyo.pdf 1%er http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118932/1er--The-Outlaw-Motorcycle-Game Fall of Magic http://heartofthedeernicorn.com/product/fall-of-magic-scroll-edition/ Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Dealing with danger & death in Mutant: Year Zero (00:53) Monster of the Week attaboys (10:28) Utter Nonsense (13:43) Blood & Water (21:13) Giving Me Life Death Valley Free Prison (30:51) Chef's Table (37:05) Winning all the burritos (39:55) Gauntlet 2017 (42:31) Links Blood & Water session write-ups http://groundhoggth.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/this-old-house.html Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/gauntlet

Game Discussion Coriolis (00:26) Star Wars World: Omega Edition (09:33) Icebox: Timeline (19:40) Giving Me Life Coincidental encounters (28:27) Absolutely On Music (30:18) Comic Strip AP (32:09) Links: Comic Strip AP http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/comic-strip-ap Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/gauntlet

Game Discussion Using Rory's Story Cubes to set up a game of Cheat Your Own Adventure (00:30) Singularity (04:02) Ocean City Interface (14:31) Giving Me Life Dog Eat Dog is available on DriveThru (24:15) Open NSFW (27:09) Gauntlet League Wrestling!!! (32:31) Links Singularity http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/186728/Singularity Cheat Your Own Adventure http://www.jellysaw.com/rpg/cyo.pdf Dog Eat Dog http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198050/Dog-Eat-Dog Open NSFW https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io

Game Discussion Pasión de Pasiónes (00:13) An assortment of thoughts about Masks (08:18) Five Fires (14:43) Worlds in Peril (29:52) Giving Me Life Bluestocking's Organic Gaming blog (45:14) Young Justice 3 (48:17) Ginny Weasley is Not Impressed (49:19) Dystopia Sylvester Stallone (50:29) Links Upwind Quickstart http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/197321/Upwind-Quickstart-Primer Bluestocking's Organic Gaming http://www.bluestockings.ca Ginny Weasley is Not Impressed http://www.tor.com/2016/10/31/women-of-harry-potter-ginny-weasley-is-not-impressed/

Game Discussion Call of Cthulhu 7E (00:45) The O Card (06:26) A dog with a new collar (07:46) Hitting all the moves in Masks (12:00) Epyllion (20:56) The King in Yellow RPG (25:05) Giving Me Life Getting ready for Dr. Tom Season 3 (37:59) Halloween LARP (39:21) Reading comics on the iPad (40:39) Mr. Robot (42:23) Links: Upwind KS https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/upwind-rpg-treasure-planet-meets-studio-ghibli

Game Discussion Announcement about Gauntlet Hangouts (00:25) Andrea's game inspired by the Siberia TV show (01:47) Using Dark Depths to set up mystery games (07:38) City of Mist (18:14) Sponsorship Spot (34:19) Giving Me Life Randy M art (36:25) Season 2 of Scream Queens (37:53) Every Frame a Painting (39:04) Links Randy M Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/randy_m/posts Dark Depths: http://catchyourhare.com/files/Dark%20Depths.pdf Prince Valiant Pre-Order: https://camelot.backerkit.com/backer/review Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/gauntlet

NOTE: Jason's original audio got corrupted near the end of the show, which is why he sounds kind of strange in the last segment. Game Discussion Dealing with overpowered character builds in Mutants & Masterminds (00:12) Arguing about droid rights in Edge of the Empire (11:40) Don't Rest Your Head (15:42) Left Coast (31:15) Sponsor Segment We introduce our new sponsor, Nocturnal Media! (41:36) Giving Me Life Rich hits the 10th rung of the Ladder of Insanity (45:36) Postmodern Jukebox (48:55) Xenoblade Chronicles X (50:12) Keepers of the Gauntlet (53:06) Support the Gauntlet on Patreon! https://patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion The Indie Hack (00:13) Archipelago III (11:11) Minnesota Long Con (18:27) Godbound (20:00) World Wide Wrestling (26:15) Gauntlet Wrestling Federation (30:15) Patreon talk (33:30) Giving Me Life Inspector Rutledge (43:10) Curating a Bundle of Holding (44:10) Pitch (44:35) Gauntlet City Mascots (50:15) Links: Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Follow-up on Tweaks (00:12) Millennium Blades (05:42) Focusing on the side jobs in Ghost Lines (11:30) Poverty in Ghost Lines (17:23) Further thoughts on tremulus (20:11) Jason embraces "rulings not rules" (24:09) Giving Me Life Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 (31:02) Oktoberfest (34:00) Postwar (35:01) Codex - Chrome (36:07) Links Ghost Lines stuff: http://www.onesevendesign.com/ghostlines/ Our website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Follow-up on Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (00:13) Godbound (06:55) Managing expectations in The Sprawl (14:10) Symbaroum (18:30) Follow-up on Uncharted Worlds (25:16) The Final Voyage of the Selene (39:44) Giving Me Life Saga series (46:50) Fall is here! (48:34) New JRPGs (49:53) Dia De Los Muertos (51:07) Links Our website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (00:11) Using goals in Wandering Monster High School to set-up table expectations (14:10) tremulus (18:31) Follow-up on Mutant: Year Zero (28:29) Tweaks (35:53) Orc Hospital (47:57) Giving Me Life Watching TV with the kiddo (55:52) Detective Conan (57:44) RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 2 (1:00:01) Links: Buy Legacy: Life Among the Ruins http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151507/Legacy-Life-Among-the-Ruins Buy tremulus http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/120260/tremulus Buy Tweaks http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114399/Tweaks Buy Orc Hospital http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/137310/Orc-Hospital-Protocol-Game-Series-Custom Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Mutant: Year Zero (00:13) Shadows of Esteren and a weird move by the GM (06:00) Dream Stories play by post (12:57) Filthy Shades Cliché (19:25) Rich hits rung 10 on the Ladder of Insanity! (22:26) Assassins of the Golden Age (25:45) Giving Me Life Moving into a bigger place (31:20) Getting the old college D&D group back together (31:58) Wedding! (34:46) Dragon Quest Heroes (35:56) Links: Lowell's blog http://ageofravens.blogspot.com Andrea's blog http://ivorythorns.tumblr.com

Game Discussion The Black Hack (00:13) Numenera (10:01) Cold Soldier (16:40) Sword the RPG (24:04) Managing a sudden, undesirable shift in tone (28:03) The usefulness of Roses & Thorns (30:00) Atomic Highway (31:51) Witch Quest (40:32) Cosplaying over Hangouts (47:20) Trusting your players to take the story to a cool place (50:31) Palace Gates (52:53) Giving Me Life My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (59:42) Flyboys (1:01:40) Cooking bao (01:03:33) Final version of Codex - Blood available (01:04:12) Links Our website: gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

Game Discussion Resolving weird mechanical tensions in Monster of the Week (00:18) Running a 'prequel' session of Edge of the Empire with Star Wars babies (!!!) (07:24) Lady Blackbird and melting the special snowflakes (11:23) One shots: the made-for-TV movie vs. the TV show pilot (16:18) The Skeletons (18:55) Failing forward in D&D (27:47) Pulling a narrative bait & switch on your players (32:50) Adapting some aspects of Beyond the Wall to PbtA games (41:59) When OSR combat doesn't match your pacifist setting (44:27) Alienór (46:46) Giving Me Life Halloween Whiteboard (54:56) MinnLoCo (56:54) AW 2e PbP (57:32) Love in the Time of Charity Games (58:23) Links: More Weirdness for Monster of the Week http://www.genericgames.co.nz/files/MotW_more_weirdness.pdf Get Lady Blackbird http://www.onesevendesign.com/ladyblackbird/ Buy The Skeletons http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177596/The-Skeletons Buy Alienór http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/145553/Alienr Halloween Whiteboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbEn2QV5BEc Minneapolis Long Con https://plus.google.com/communities/108970759442542364640 Love in the Time of Charity Games http://bullypulpitgames.com/love-in-the-time-of-charity-games/ Our website: www.gauntlet-rpg.com Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

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 http://ivorythorns.tumblr.com 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 Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG

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: www.gauntlet-rpg.com 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: www.gauntlet-rpg.com 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 http://www.thornygames.com The Gauntlet www.gauntlet-rpg.com 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 ListVarious 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 FeedbackInspirations 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)

PlaylistSomething 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 FeedbackRules & 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 ListPandemic 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 LifeFinishing 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/

Opening SegmentDungeon 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 LifeGM 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 SegmentRitual 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/

In this episode, writer and game designer Anna Kreider joins us to talk about The Watch (and much more!). Play ListStar Wars World (00:44)Masks (04:18)Blades in the Dark (07:45) Giving Me LifeTetanus shots (16:29)Co-designing games (18:00)Slack App (19:44) The WatchOverview 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 QuestionsHow did Anna get into game design? (32:32)Is hacking real game design? (34:38)Diversity in gaming (35:55) Final QuestionThou 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 ListMonsterhearts: ISS Tsiolkovsky (00:40)Dungeon World: Chain World (05:40)Galaxy Trucker (09:04)World Wide Wrestling (13:10) Giving Me LifeLooking 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 ProjectsBluebeard’s Bride (46:46)Velvet Glove (tentative title) (48:41) Links:Sarah’s Website: http://www.scorcha.netChain 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/

In this episode, Rich, Steve & Jason originate the idea of the 'GGG player.' Here are the time codes: Play ListWorld 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

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 ListImperial Assault (00:51)Mouse Guard (04:41)Legend of the Elements (08:44)The Watch (15:10) Giving Me LifeTraining for Marathons (19:30)Cord Cutting (20:29)Prepping Star Wars World (21:28)Dreamation 2016 (24:50) CartelCartel 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/

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 LifeBaseball 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