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It’s the latest episode of Pocket-Sized Play, and the foray into Beyond the Wall comes to a head!
It’s the latest episode of Pocket-Sized Play, and the foray into Beyond the Wall comes to a head! Low fantasy turns high and village life gets mighty dangerous.
Beyond the Wall is by John Cocking and Peter Williams at Flatland Games. Thanks as always to our players, Timothy Bennett, Saffire Rainbo, and Tor Droplets, and extra big ups to Timothy and Tor for the edit! 🙂
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/beyond-the-wall-004-giant-demon-moose
Alright: Two players, one GM. Why is this special?
Alright: Two players, one GM. Why is this special?
There’s a dynamic of opposing interests from three or more players (think rock, paper, and scissors) that’s missing. There’s a sense of forced camaraderie. There’s a lot of time spent in the spotlight.
But I enjoyed a solid session of Adventures on Dungeon Planet with two players this week, and here’s what I think helped:
*Ensure the players have different interests, but (at least) one shared goal. Maybe they have wildly disparate reasons for arriving at Planet Y, but they both want to get there.
*Externalize a threat. When the two players work together, it’s the reasonable thing to do against a common obstacle, regardless of if they’re friends.
*Shine the spotlight bright. There is so much more time to explore personal motives, hidden pasts, and moment-to-moment reactions with only two players. Encourage vignettes, jump cuts, and flash forwards because there’s time for it.
How has playing in or running a game with only two players been special for you?
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast!
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast! Today we’re playing John Harper’s Lady Blackbird from One Seven Design. Our characters have only 30 minutes to make it off the brigs of the Hand of Sorrow! (Well, I did edit out a bit that went into overtime, but their speediness is still impressive!)
Big thanks to special guest Pat Perkins, and thanks as always to Timothy Bennett and Tor Droplets.
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/lady-blackbird
Gauntlet Portland ROCKED IT tonight.
Gauntlet Portland ROCKED IT tonight. A group of strangers, bound only by listening to Gauntlet podcasts, descended to play Adventures on Dungeon Planet by Red Box Vancouver. With no shortage of Dungeon World hacks, I can safely say this retro-sci-fi reskinning is one of my favorites.
Meet: A mutant white ape in search of friends, an android killbot exploring to find his lost creators, a calculating technician championing the art of rational thought, and a lost Earthling with the means to repopulate a planet.
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast.
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast. Tonight is a sleepover with unexpected guests as we continue the short fantasy tale of Beyond the Wall RPG by John Cocking and Peter Williams at Flatland Games. Listen in for a short and sweet take on fantasy OSR!
Thanks to players Tor Droplets, Saffire Rainbo, and extra thanks for this week’s editing prowess to Timothy Bennett!
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/beyond-the-wall-003-barrier
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere all actual play podcast with no filler.
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere all actual play podcast with no filler. We continue the short fantasy tale of Beyond the Wall RPG by John Cocking and Peter Williams at Flatland Games. Listen in for a short and sweet take on fantasy OSR!
Thanks to players Tor Droplets, Saffire Rainbo, and Timothy Bennett!
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/beyond-the-wall-002-lady-cine
Check it out: Not only am I in the player’s seat for a change, but I’m playing Cold Soldier, the 2-player RPG by…
Check it out: Not only am I in the player’s seat for a change, but I’m playing Cold Soldier, the 2-player RPG by Bret Gillan of The Final Girl fame! The game is technically out of print, so let this be the beginning of a call to Kickstart Cold Solder…kidding. -Ish.
Thanks, Party of One Podcast for the fun time!
https://soundcloud.com/partyofonepodcast/36-cold-soldier-with-tim-from-pocket-sized-play
It’s the latest episode of Pocket-Sized Play, the Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast!
It’s the latest episode of Pocket-Sized Play, the Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast! We’re playing the fantasy RPG Beyond the Wall by John Cocking and Peter Williams at Flatland Games, and it’s the start of a short campaign. That’s right—expect ten or so more of these to come!
Thanks to returning guest Saffire Rainbo, and as always to Timothy Bennett and Tor Droplets. Folks can find Beyond the Wall at http://www.flatlandgames.com/btw/.
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/beyond-the-wall-001-the-red-fir-forest
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast!
It’s the latest Pocket-Sized Play, The Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast! We return to Magpie Games’s Urban Shadows by Andrew Medeiros & Mark Diaz Truman, set in gentrifying Portland, OR!
Big thanks to our guest Saffire Rainbo, and thanks as always to players Timothy Bennett and Tor Droplets.What’d you all think of the episode? Let us know in the comments!
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/urban-shadows-002-southeast-portland
It’s a new episode of Pocket-Sized Play, the Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast, and we play a cyberpunk…
It’s a new episode of Pocket-Sized Play, the Gauntlet’s premiere actual play podcast, and we play a cyberpunk mission in Hamish Cameron’s The Sprawl!
Folks on G+ had been asking for AP of this awesome game, so settle in for an entire self-contained mission that (countdown) clocks in at just under an hour.
Big thanks to special guest Pat Perkins, and props as always to Timothy Bennett and Tor Droplets.
http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/the-sprawl-001-the-suparat-extraction