November 2017 – Page 3 – The Gauntlet G+ Archives

Greetings, all.

Greetings, all. It’s time for the weekly Gauntlet video roundup! Don’t miss any of the great new actual play videos from the past week in the updated playlists and video links below.

Pocket-Sized Play

– Monster Hearts: Return to Mercy Falls episode 4, Jason Cordova runs for Yoshi Creelman, Lowell Francis, Kevin Lovecraft, Fraser Simons and Phillip Wessels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isVjhCOAb8s&index=15&list=PL26DVDSsqVz5MUf2r-G6h6xTEf6KcWxs-

Backing the Gauntlet Patreon at $2 and up gets you early access to the entire series! Visit https://patreon.com/gauntlet for details.

Tragic Tuesdays

– The Watch session 2, Shane Liebling runs for Kate Bullock, Michael X. Heiligenstein, and Gerrit Reininghaus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSjg4n7o1o

Wednesday Time Machine

– NEW World of Dungeons: Into the Fire sessions 1 through 3, Jason Cordova runs for Matt Doughty, Jennifer Erixon, Kyle Hodnett, and Fraser Simons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5SZQIQWrg&list=PL26DVDSsqVz4MlXSz2RCs_pbgsD0f62NY

Check out all the great videos on The Gauntlet’s YouTube channel, linked below on this post. Don’t forget to subscribe, and check out the playlists to catch up on all your favorite campaigns. Enjoy, and everyone have a great weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QoUve1LQHu_feDx0snd4w

Here is Episode 04 of Monsterhearts: Return to Mercy Falls!

As a reminder, if you enjoy this series and want early access to all the episodes, just become a $2+ subscriber on our Patreon. Patreon subscribers are already on Episode 12!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

Cc: Fraser Simons Phillip Wessels Yoshi Creelman Lowell Francis and Kevin Lovecraft

Enjoy!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/monsterhearts-return-to-mercy-falls-04

DIGGING OUT

DIGGING OUT

Let me give you another reason to consider running games for the Gauntlet (or elsewhere online).

Take a look around if you’re at home. Perhaps go to another room where you have your shelves. Maybe you can check your pdf folders. Or scan your DriveThru library for things you haven’t yet downloaded.

How many games do you have that you’ve never gotten to the table? Even cut out the ones you’re just slightly interested in. I’d be willing to bet for a ton of you that’s a double-digit number. Maybe even the triple digits. Kickstarters, Bundles of Holding, free downloads, Black Friday sales—they all just look so cool. You want to try these games, but RPGs make that a challenge. Getting f2f pick up groups interested in a niche game isn’t easy—but online, that’s a different story.

This year I’ve cleared two dozen games off my list—playing or running for The Gauntlet. You can too.

http://bit.ly/2lwbZcc

Some of you have heard this before, but I want more GMs. I’m here to work with anyone who has thought about running games for The Gauntlet Hangouts (or anywhere online). We’re opening up new Patreon spots, so we’ll have more room and opportunities for GMs next year. I’ll be glad to talk with you one-on-one to…figure out technical issues; go over what you’re thinking about running; discuss technique; get advice about running online; break down your planning; look at online tools; tell me about what you dig about GMing; or talk you down from the panic ledge.

If you want advice, I’m glad help—but if you just want someone to listen, I’ll do that. I may not have all the info or specific game advice, but I’ll do my level best to help and direct you to folks who do have that.

You can email me or hit me up on Slack if you have questions or want to talk. If you’ve posted interested on one of my threads before, I’m going to hit you up next week to check in.

Crowd-sourcing Gauntlet Daddy Jokes!

Crowd-sourcing Gauntlet Daddy Jokes!

Warning: this is a NSFW thread filled with tasteless, dirty jokes. Avoid as needed.

I am having a HELL of a time coming up with dirty jokes to accompany Devilingus (pictured below). I’m up against a deadline and I need your help!

The Gauntlet Daddy profiles are sort of like Playboy centerfold bios. Here are a couple of recent ones:

He-Wolf (a ranger)

Favorite animal companion: Bear

Favorite Ranger move: Called Shot (Chest & Face)

Favorite pick-up line: “I’ve got a magical shaft that will make you quiver.”

Favorite punchline: “Strider? I hardly know her!”

Best life advice he ever received: Make sure your scabbard is big enough for that two-handed sword.

Boner (a necromancer)

Favorite thing to put in his spell slot: Bigby’s Clenched Fist

Favorite magical artifact: The Cock of Vecna

Favorite saying: “Necrophili–YES!”

Best life advice he ever received: If your raise lasts more than 1d4 hours, call your healer immediately

Favorite pick-up line: “You wanna put your divining rod in my holy symbol?”

It can be pretty much anything, so long as the answers are funny, dirty, and connected to roleplaying games in some way. Also: demon or devil-themed.

Put your ideas in the comments. If you have an idea that is particularly dirty/risqué that you don’t want to share publicly, you can message me on Hangouts or Slack.

And now, the thread everyone has been waiting for:

RPG Sales!

Use the coupon BLACKESTBLACK to get 30% off and FREE SHIPPING* on all orders over $30 from http://www.magpiegames.com/shop/! *Discount does not apply to Bluebeard’s Bride.

DriveThru also have most of the Magpie cataloge on sale, along with other delightful items!

Suggestions:

Class Warfare, Fellowship, Legacy, Malandros, Masks, Monster of the Week, Monsterhearts, Night Witches, Indie Hack, Warren, World Wide Wrestling, Urban Shadows, Velvet Glove

Grim portents/dungeon moves for The Keep on the Borderlands

Grim portents/dungeon moves for The Keep on the Borderlands

This is the list referred to in the latest Fear of a Black Dragon, which I wanted to share at least in part to draw your attention to Dunkey Halton’s online demon generator.

– You hear the distant tolling of a sinister bell, somewhere within the mountain.

– A portion of the floor falls away to reveal the labyrinth – irregular tunnels that connect all the “regular” levels of the caves

– You hear the sound of battle in the tunnels somewhere (hohools and wormlings fighting)

– Spell of confusion: The party find themselves lost in the labyrinth (even if they have stuck to the ‘regular’ tunnels)

– Crude drawing scratched on the wall of a creature with a flower for a head. (See Dunkey Halton’s Yoon-Suin demon generator: http://rememberdismove.blogspot.hk/2017/07/yoon-suin-demon-generator.html )

– The scent of acrid incense wafts down the tunnel.

– The Great Bell is rung

– The demon patron, Vorb the Wise, arrives

I was looking over some old YouTube videos and came across this show from 2014 called This Imaginary Life.

I was looking over some old YouTube videos and came across this show from 2014 called This Imaginary Life. It’s chock full of some really strong GM and gaming advice. There are some serious rockstars in these things (and me, since I gathered them together):

Lowell Francis

Stras Acimovic

Erik Frankhouse

Judd Karlman

Jason Corley

Stacy Dellorfano

John Stavropoulos

Arnold Cassell

Jenn Martin

Brendan Conway

The group tackles topics like:

– How to Build an RPG Group

– Handling Competitive Players

– Burnout and Long Campaigns

– Clearly Stating your Playstyle

– Breaking up with your Game Group

– Tools for Running RPGs

– Running without Prep

– Making One Shots Rock

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLccARXndpwfiynSCsVrTZRfp_wfdfI9O5

I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine…

I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine signature series on Gauntlet Hangouts. The idea was to run through one of the adventures in the very first issue of Dungeon Magazine using World of Dungeons. We ended up enjoying these sessions so much, we have actually extended the series for two more sessions in December (off-calendar).

The videos to these first three sessions are linked below. Here are a few reasons why you might be interested in checking them out:

1) This is really terrific WoDu play. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me about how I run WoDu (a result of Fear of a Black Dragon, no doubt), and this is a pretty terrific example of how I use the system.

2) The story is just really fucking good. We started with the module as our foundation, but using establishing questions and a whole lot of collaborative fiction, we ended up with something far more interesting. It starts off with the basic “getting to know you/traveling through the wilderness” stuff that most of my adventures start with, but once we get to Fort Silam, it becomes this dark, fascinating tale about nightmares and regret.

3) The players here do a great job extrapolating out from the simple character classes in WoDu. One of the things I love about the game is that because it has such a sturdy mechanical foundation, you can build all kinds of custom stuff on top of it, and many of the players really embrace that aspect of the game to make their characters unique.

4) I manage to claim a few tears for my collection! I have lately been really interested in emotional play, and getting the players misty-eyed in the middle of the session is a major priority. We get a lot of emotion around the middle of the third session (which was probably one of my favorite sessions this year).

Session 1 is linked below.

Session 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKd626ozbg&feature=youtu.be&a=

Session 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZI5zoa0Vk0&feature=youtu.be&a=

Thanks to the players for bringing it: Jennifer Erixon Fraser Simons Kyle Hodnett and Matthew Doughty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5SZQIQWrg&feature=youtu.be&a

Hey all!

Happy eating food and sleeping and watching soccer day! I had a question for the group at large: my group is going to do an all wizard production of chicago (campaign, sorry it is a joke we feel the need to make), I am playing a Necro, one friend is playing a Tower Mage, and our last buddy wants to play a wizard that has a kind of focus on illusory magic. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or thoughts about the illusory magic user, this one had some of our eyes so any thoughts on if you found the playbook to be interesting would be great as well!

http://drivethrurpg.com/m/product/226468

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! For this classic American holiday, Tom McGrenery and I present an episode of FoaBD about a classic American module. No single module or adventure has probably been covered as much as The Keep on the Borderlands, but Tom and I have, as always, managed to put our distinctive FoaBD spin on things.

Enjoy!

Cc: Johnstone Metzger for Nightmares Underneath discussion near the end.

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/the-keep-on-the-borderlands