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It’s a new episode of the show, and Rach Shelkey talks with Christopher Grey about his new game Great American Novel!
It’s a new episode of the show, and Rach Shelkey talks with Christopher Grey about his new game Great American Novel!
Time codes
3:05 – Read a Sitch about Managing Spotlight
9:12 – Open Your Brain to Great American Novel
23:18 – Act Under Fire for Mom’s medicine in Colorado
Links:
KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/greyauthor/the-great-american-novel-a-roleplaying-game
Episode: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/the-great-american-novel
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward!
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward! This one is all about Jinkies!, a roleplaying game about solving a mystery with the gang, animated hijinks, talking animals, and plenty of Groovy Snacks, with Tobias Strauss.
https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/jinkies
Time codes
2:49 – Read a Sitch about comedy and advancing plots
9:05 – Open Your Brain to Jinkies!
19:53 – Act Under Fire in a malt shop
Links
Jinkies! Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1810228397/jinkies-the-roleplaying-game?ref=user_menu
It’s a new episode!
It’s a new episode!
Rich sits down with Fraser Simons of Samjoko Publishing to talk about his PbtA game series of Supernatural Urban Fiction.
Timecodes:
01:09 – Read a Sitch and learn about using one-shots to stitch together a campaign!
10:32 – Open Your Brain to Uncanny Echoes
* You can purchase the Uncanny Echoes from Drive Thru RPG here (affiliate link):
Or check out Samjoko Publishing:
https://www.samjokopublishing.com/
It’s a new episode!!!!
It’s a new episode!!!!
Rach and Rich introduce Movie Night, a new series where we pair a movie and a PbtA RPG and talk about how you can watch the movie and improve your experience with the game. Our first pairing is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Masks: A New Generation.
https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/movie-night-spider-man-and-masks
Timecodes:
4:42 – a spoiler-free summary of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8:33 – a spoilerific summary of Masks: A New Generation
11:28 – SPOILER WARNING and a look at Playbooks in the movie
19:54 – a few of our favorite scenes from Spider-Verse as they might play in a Masks session
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is in theaters as of this show’s publication, go see it!
* You can purchase the Awesome Masks bundle here (affiliate link):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261677/Masks-A-New-Generation-BUNDLE?affiliate_id=78493
Rich and Rach discuss Apocalypse Engine Games and defined settings.
Rich and Rach discuss Apocalypse Engine Games and defined settings. Most PbtA games don’t have them. Why is that? Is that a feature or a bug?
Timecodes:
05:52 – Do Apocalypse Engine games need settings?
13:35 – Discussing some PbtA games with strong settings baked in
30:14 – Challenges with MCing defined settings and how to deal with them
CC: Brendan Conway, Mark Diaz Truman, Jason Morningstar, and Gregor Vuga.
Rach Shelkey comes back from Metatopia 2018 with five stellar interviews with designers of PbtA games in alpha…
Rach Shelkey comes back from Metatopia 2018 with five stellar interviews with designers of PbtA games in alpha playtest.
Timecodes:
04:56 – Taylor with Descent into Midnight
10:24 – Stentor with Get Ready to Rock
15:52 – Iris with Dream of the Empress
22:23 – Sam with Passing
27:07 – Hamish with Codename Mindblock
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward for you!
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward for you!
This one stars Shawn Tomkin, and it’s all about Ironsworn.
Timecodes
03:07 – Read a Sitch about solo gaming!
12:58 – Open Your Brain to Ironsworn
31:20 – Act Under Fire… as Plussy tries to protect Gauntlet Village
This past weekend…
This past weekend…
Friday Night
I played Demigods PbtA run by Jason Mills (the designer) for me and my buddies chris norwood and Candida Norwood. I find mythology fascinating and have bought and looked through several RPGs about this subject. I really enjoyed the Godbound+Scion hack Lowell Francis ran a couple years ago, but there’s something especially compelling about Jason Mills’ game! I’m playing a son of Dionysus who “totally gets” that his dad is problematic. Farren (my PC) is naturally gifted at partying and always seems to have a drink in his hand, but in this last session, for some reason, I discovered that when a girl actually shows interest in him, he has no idea how to handle it! That was fun.
Saturday Morning
I ran the second of three sessions of Hunt the Wicked, a bounty hunter game by Ben Dutter for my Star Wars Saturdays living campaign. The players, Michael G. Barford, steven watkins, and Joe Zantek, really embodied their fascinating characters. We had a shocking revelation, a space battle with ARC 170s and their ship, The Hornet, a stand-off, some Die Harding that ended with a garotting, and it ended with a big explosion cliffhanger!
Saturday Evening
Michael G. Barford ran the most recent playtest version of mecha RPG All Systems Nominla by Kyle Thompson for me, Darren Brockes, David LaFreniere, and Gauntlet newcomer Del Benjamin. We mopped up some farmers in mediocre mechs, gave our employer a “talking to” (this was surprisingly cathartic for me!), and decided to head off on a direct course for the awful corporation who put those poor farmers in the mechs. I cannot wait to punch those corporate a-holes in their noses!
Sunday Morning
Lowell Francis kicked off his new month’s series of the wonderful wuja RPG Hearts of Wulin. Players were Darren Brockes, Auzumel S, and Patrick Knowles. I continued playing Zheng, my Loyal swordsman, who was completely full of venomous hurt for Darren’s thief and tried his best to protect Sherri’s investigator without her realizing it.
Sunday Afternoon
I ran Masks Halcyon City for the Intercontinental Group of Awesome ( Alex Prinz, Jan van Zon, Jennifer Kitzman, and Paul Edson ). Viridian and Ashley Banner (secret ID of Seraph) played their first music gig with their high school band, Teenage Gerbil Uprising, a former foe showed up again to attack them, but they realize in the fight that he’s being controlled by another enemy, the shame of Armature. And the humongous Atlas was tempted by a magic weapon.
Saturday Evening
Tyler Lominack picked up his campaign of Fellowship because I begged him to run it some more. Patrick Knowles, James Ryan, and Jesse Crisp-Sears joined up for the reunion of our epic PCs and we fought undead giants!
Rach Shelkey speaks with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games!
Rach Shelkey speaks with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games!
Timecodes
1:01 – Read a Sitch – MCing Hard Moves
6:21 – Open Your Brain to Thousand Arrows
15:24 – Act Under Fire with Hojo Ochiki
The kickstarter is here:
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward and this one is all about Nahual by Mike Espinoza.
It’s a new episode of +1 Forward and this one is all about Nahual by Mike Espinoza. I’m so excited to see this Kickstarter and throw money at it!
Show Notes:
01:51 – Read a Sitch playtesting miniseries games
08:37 – Open your Brain to Nahual
17:13 – Act Under Fire with Massuno the Perro