Codex Spotlight – Wind on the Path

Codex Spotlight – Wind on the Path

Codex Spotlight – Wind on the Path

Wind on the Path was originally featured in Codex – Iron. It’s a game written by Jonathan Lavallee, with an illustration by Randy M and layout/character sheets by Oli Jeffery. It’s a samurai dueling game designed to be played at large gatherings and I talked about it at length in Episode 95 of The Gauntlet Podcast, which you can listen to here around 40 seconds in:

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-gauntlet-podcast/episode-95-impulse-drive-wind-on-the-path-7th-sea

What I want to mention in this post is that Dylan Ross has created a really terrific set of tools for playing the game online, and we have begun to use those tools to organize samurai duels in our Slack channel. If you want to see what those online tools look like, they can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LWdY4LICXeL0EE4jvpDVSbEAFydX_rcb8ozKOGFcqVc/edit#gid=707804894

Will P and I recently had a duel over Hangouts. It was loads of fun. The video is embedded below in case you want to see how the game works (note: I mischaracterized one of the rules in the video; in fact, information revealed in previous duels remains revealed. The number of Witnesses only affects the information revealed in the current duel).

You have until May 31st to get Codex – Iron. Just make a $4 pledge on Patreon.

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtRl6SbPXF0

18 thoughts on “Codex Spotlight – Wind on the Path”

  1. Just played my first round with Will (via chat). This game is simple and elegant and I found it extremely enjoyable. The narrative unfolds easily from the mechanics. I might print out some sheets to have fun with it at games on demand at this weekend’s Strategicon.

    I like the idea of running it ad hoc at a con, but the game isn’t widely available, and I’ve got too few Gauntleteers at my local con! Are there plans to make this available anywhere else, like DTRPG? (Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to convince people to join the Gauntlet – and do – but I don’t think I’d get most people to do patreon just to play this game in the coming weekend)

  2. Just played my first round with Will (via chat). This game is simple and elegant and I found it extremely enjoyable. The narrative unfolds easily from the mechanics. I might print out some sheets to have fun with it at games on demand at this weekend’s Strategicon.

    I like the idea of running it ad hoc at a con, but the game isn’t widely available, and I’ve got too few Gauntleteers at my local con! Are there plans to make this available anywhere else, like DTRPG? (Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to convince people to join the Gauntlet – and do – but I don’t think I’d get most people to do patreon just to play this game in the coming weekend)

  3. Tomer Gurantz Why not just print out a bunch of copies of the playbooks to pass out? (also: we don’t actually mind if you disseminate the rules to your friends)

  4. Tomer Gurantz Why not just print out a bunch of copies of the playbooks to pass out? (also: we don’t actually mind if you disseminate the rules to your friends)

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