Category: The Gauntlet: Hail Satan

Codex back issues are now available in the Patreon feed (get them while you can!)

When we first launched the Patreon, I think a lot of people didn’t realize just how awesome Codex was going to be and so they didn’t jump on the early issues when they had the chance. If I’m being perfectly honest, we weren’t sure how it was going to be received either. Those of us who were principally involved in putting Codex together had little to no experience in publishing. We didn’t know we were going to end up creating such a high quality product, and so we never really made a plan for how to deal with back issues.

We have decided we would rather have more people be able to enjoy the awesome creativity that goes into each issue of Codex than fewer, and so we are making the entire collection available until May 31st. On that day, back issues will disappear from the Patreon feed and will not be available again until we compile them into the annual or start selling them individually.

This is a terrific opportunity to get your hands on one of the coolest things happening in RPGs right now, as well as to show your support for everything we do in the Gauntlet.

Thanks!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

My partner and I found a cool retro arcade in Morristown and they had this cabinet (a game I had never even heard of). The game itself was kind of lame, but still…#hailsatan

This message from a Patreon supporter brought a smile to my face!

Hey guys – I joined the Patreon a while ago, and listened to the podcasts before that, and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for what you’re putting out into the hobby. I’ve been playing for a long time but I’m fairly new to story games in general & PbtA specifically – my first exposure to a PbtA game was when I came across World Wide Wrestling on DriveThru & thought it would make a great Christmas present for my husband. That strange phrase, “Powered by the Apocalypse”, led to a Google search that led to a fundamental shift in how I understand & play games. Cue that sword descending from the sky in a shaft of holy light from the end of The Messenger, full choral accompaniment and all that shit. I found your podcasts & community after that and so much of what you do has helped me change my habits & change the games my groups play. Watching Lowell run Gauntlet League Wrestling helped the game come alive for my husband & me (and helped me to find where the fun is in professional wrestling). I started GMing my first 2 games recently – Fellowship & Lady Blackbird. Listening to Discern Realities helped to unlock the mechanisms of PbtA in my head and gave me tools that I’ve used in my Fellowship game.

I joined the Patreon specifically to get the Codex with Rich’s Lady Blackbird article and those event seeds & questions have come to my aid over and over again! I’m generally a lurker online (by contrast, XXXX, my husband, has been thrilled to find new people to babble at online) but given how many of my recent games have been influenced by the Gauntlet, I wanted to thank you for being awesome!

Cc: Richard Rogers Kate Bullock Lowell Francis David LaFreniere (also, indirectly, Nathan Paoletta Vincent Baker Meguey Baker John Harper Jacob Randolph)

SInce today feels like Codex Day, here are some fun stats!

Number of Issues: 8

Number of Pages: 143

Number of articles/features: 33

Number of original illustrations: 63 (!!!)

Number of different game systems covered: 15

Number of completely original games: 3

Number of Codex Keepers (people whose patronage pays for the zine): 171

Number of magic items for Dungeon World: 37

Number of Miscellany entries: 288

Number of times each of the various free issues have been downloaded: approximately 1,500 each

Number of times I have been asked to sell Codex on DriveThru: approximately 9,000 (j/k)

Tomorrow…