Category: The Gauntlet: Hail Satan

Just finished playing Damn the Man! Save the Music by Hannah Shaffer. Wow! So fun. Keep your eyes on this one for sure!

Cc: Evan Rowland David LaFreniere Dylan Ross

New Patreon Goal – OSR Podcast Project

Hi everyone! We hit our most recent Patreon goal and so we’ve started the planning for GauntletCon, an online gaming convention. We’re going to have more to announce on that very soon. In the meantime, I wanted to let you know about our next Patreon goal…

Tom McGrenery and I have started the pre-production phase of a brand-new discussion podcast focused on classic and OSR modules and setting books. Once we hit $1400, we’ll be able to cover regular production costs and will release the first episode immediately.

This project is going to be really fun; it’s something I have wanted to work on for a long time, and Tom and I have a really great rapport (you can hear us playing Monster of the Week in our Comic Strip AP feed). It’s still early days, but here are some notes about where we’re going with the project:

-Each episode will focus on a single module or setting book (we already know which module the first episode is about, but we’re keeping that a secret for now).

-Our overall approach is to be very comprehensive, almost holistic, in how we discuss the topic for each episode. The goal, as in all things “Gauntlet,” is to help you get these modules and setting books to the table, and so we hope to not only do what is essentially a review of the book in question, but also discuss different techniques and approaches for making sure you are getting the most out of it in play.

Segment Breakdown (tentative)

-Each episode will likely start with an overview of the module or setting book. We’ll discuss what we liked, what we didn’t like, the book’s major themes, etc..

-The next segment will be a discussion about how to re-contextualize or adapt the module for a specific playstyle or specific set of circumstances (for example: “How to run Death Frost Doom as a one-shot” or “How to turn Scenic Dunnsmouth into a series of Fronts for Dungeon World” or “How to update Keep on the Borderlands so it feels fresh and exciting”).

-The final segment will be about films, books, and other media references we believe best represent the themes and tone of the module. The idea here is you have some resources you can check out if you want to capture how the module should feel at the table, as well as having a handy list you can point your players to.

I think this is going to be a really fun project. Just like Discern Realities and Dungeon World, your level of interest in the OSR isn’t going to determine how much you like this show. It’s going to be a show about technique presented through a very particular lens. I promise you will love it.

Thanks to everyone who is helping us hit these Patreon goals. We are excited to bring you more Gauntlet awesomeness!

patreon.com/gauntlet

http://patreon.com/gauntlet

Codex – Time…arrives June 1st!

(Cover illustration by Vandel J. Arden, layout by Oli Jeffery)

I name them Keepers of the Gauntlet!

I would like to thank our newest Patreon supporters and name them Keepers of the Gauntlet…

Anthony Swan, Keeper of the Wolf-King’s Last Tear

Quintin Smith, Keeper of the Silent Seat

Will Patterson, Keeper of the Child’s Dream

Erica Stevenson, Keeper of the Forty Funereal Rites

Blake Ryan, Keeper of the Words of Dissolution and Wonder

Adam Flynn, Keeper of the Six-Tailed Dog-beasts

Love Dahlgren, Keeper of the Last True Pages

Guillaume Agostini, Keeper of the Lists of Shame

Mark Sable, Keeper of the Buried Box, Which Must Never Be Found

Mike Burnett, Keeper of the Fire of Nal-K’aa

Aaron Berger, Keeper of the Echo Plantations

Steve Gooch, Keeper of the Little Box with a Tongue and Mirror Inside

David Rothfeder, Keeper of the Hull of the Void Hatred

Francisco, Keeper of the Broken Blade

David Dorward, Keeper of the Fetid King’s Ashes

Daniel Backus, Keeper of the Thousand Year Cocoon

Jeremy Christian, Keeper of the Spiral Nemesis

Kalahan, Keeper of the Coward’s Shield

Jim Morris, Keeper of the Darkstar Instruments

Joe Banner, Keeper of the Pedigree of Two-Faced Demons

Enoch Starnes, Keeper of the Machine That Must Not Stop

Mike Scullen, Keeper of the Unspoken Oath

Dylan Green, Keeper of the Irresistible Bronze Vessel

Underfoot Turnbuckle, Keeper of the Crawling Portrait

Daniel Hagglund, Keeper of the First Offspring

Devin White, Keeper of the Venom of Lursiss

Wayne Peacock, Keeper of the Amber Horn of Heléthe

Max Vanderheyden, Keeper of Tarnat’s Prayer for Peace

Patrick Bethke, Keeper of Tarnat’s Song for Battle

Daniel Lofton, Keeper of the Ebony Cat and All We Deem Above Her

Ilmari Korpi, Keeper of the Path of Cenduwain Rose-Whisperer

Ewen Cluney, Keeper of the Temple of the Golden Sky

Brian Holland, Keeper of the Book of Infinite Zeroes

Ryan, Keeper of the Locks without Key

Jeremy, Keeper of the Maddening Rhymes

Joshua Fox, Keeper of the Pitch-Black Sails

Arnulph de Lisieux, Keeper of the Winter Reverie

Sean Smith Keeper of the Jale Putrescence

Pedro Pareira, Keeper of the Maggot Godling

Mirko Froehlich, Keeper of the Man Who Dies Every Third Day

Eric Vulgaris, Keeper of the Twitching Tables

(and thanks to our Slack group, who helped come up with this month’s Keeper titles)

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

I have just seen the near-final version of Ray Otus’s Plundergrounds #3. So freaking cool! I’m not even kidding: this is the best $2 you’ll spend on an RPG thing, hands-down.

https://www.patreon.com/rayotus

A weird thing about Codex: our community has no reputation for playing (or even discussing) LARP, yet there is a surprisingly strong LARP presence in the zine.

We’re so close to hitting 200 supporters on Patreon! Very exciting!

EDIT: As soon as we hit 200 Patrons, I will release the first episode of our relaunch of Pocket-Sized Play!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet