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The Gauntlet presents: The Gaunt Marches

The Gauntlet presents: The Gaunt Marches

Conceived by +Spencer Paskett and featuring exciting GMs like Richard Ruane and Jim Crocker The Gaunt Marches is a living, breathing, ever changing hexcrawl with players across all time zones roaming the wilderness of the Gaunt Marches.

Decisions made by one group will permanently change the lands. Support the Croaking King and his rivals will take notice. Kill the Purple Worm rumored to terrorize The Alameen Fields and new goods might show up on the market of your hometown.

Player agency is paramount: You will hear numerous rumors and will be presented dozens of opportunities but you might ignore all of these and just pick a direction, loot ancient ruins, hunt wild animals to sell their furs and husks, start a business on your own or choose to live a life of crime and rob the bank of Eelton or the traders travelling through Kurgis Forest.

Interested?

Registration for Freebooters on the Frontier: The Gaunt Marches is now open for non-patreons! https://plus.google.com/u/0/100166690471780012764/posts/DGNjnsbEWQJ

Freebooters on the Frontier is an old school inspired take on Dungeon World tailor made for explorations and dungeon crawls. Whereas DW is based on AD&D and later editions of the world most popular RPG, Freebooters goes back to 0e and occupies the fascinating space between OSR and PbtA games.

Note that if you already have a character from one of the other adventuring parties they will be temporarily transformed to fit the relevant Freebooters class but will be changed back to their original state after each session.

With Gauntlet Con less than a week away, I would like to propose a way to draw attention to the last open slots:…

With Gauntlet Con less than a week away, I would like to propose a way to draw attention to the last open slots: Adopt a Gauntlet Con game.

The game I like to adopt is Troika! run by Sherman S.

Troika! is a weird OSR type game where the old school is not D&D but Advanced Fighting Fantasy that uses various combination of d6s (d3, d66, d666) as the resolution mechanism. The game is probably best known for its quirky initiative system: Every PC gets two tokens, all monsters get tokens and there is an end of the round token as well. Tokens are pulled out from the Bag until the end of round token is drawn, so a sequence could be: Monster, Monster, End of Round (which would suck very much) or Player A, Player A, Player C, Monster, End of Round etc. Even if you are not a fan of initiative systems you just have to admire the chaos and unpredictability of the concept.

What really attracts me to the system, though, is the hilarious character backgrounds and the setting they imply: Don’t you want to play a Parchment Witch who should stay away from open fire, a Poorly Made Dwarf who non-Dwarfs will just mistake for the real deal or a Monkeymonger with d6 edible monkeys and a bag full of monkey treats? Of course you do!

Just sign up for You vs. The Horrendous Heap.

https://gauntlet-con.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-KsxwSLq8NbW0JkSEb0Q

Today I brought the Gauntlet spirit to the Meetup group in Amsterdam and played The Final Girl (GM-less, pool of…

Today I brought the Gauntlet spirit to the Meetup group in Amsterdam and played The Final Girl (GM-less, pool of characters, card based) and Murderous Ghosts (One GM, all the players playing the same character, card based) back to back with four random people.

What have you done to spread the gospel?

Hail Satan!

Hi Jason

As one of the countless lurkers I am just dropping by to say thank you. Your podcast has really inspired me to check out new games. I remember that you ones described how the faces of hardened grognards in your DW game lit up when they realized that they could do all kinds of awesome shit. I have been playing an old fantasy heart-breaker for ages with a couple of friends and saw the same expression when I ran the first session of DW for them a couple of weeks ago. Now that they have seen the endless possibilities, I picture us playing some weird Nordic Larp in the future … Thanks to the Gauntlet and your passion.