Category: The Gauntlet: Our Community

Some pics from Wednesday One-Shots. We played Monsterhearts and Goblin Quest.

Thanks to everyone who came out: Daniel Lewis David LaFreniere Russell Benner parrish warren James Niu Kristen D Scott Owen Gary Wilson James Melott and Ferrell Riley.

Hello Gauntleteers. A change is being made to how we schedule game nights. You will want to pay attention to this post. 

From now on, we will no longer use the G+ Event scheduling system. It is a terrible, unreliable system that gives you very few tools for managing your event RSVPs. 

Instead, everything will be scheduled through the Meetup. We will cross-post Meetup events on this page, but there will no longer be a G+ specific events page in use.

There are still a few G+ Events left. If you RSVP’d on one of those, make thy way over to the Meetup posthaste and RSVP there instead.

Thanks. 

Some pics from Anthology Weekend. I’ll be doing a write-up later on, but for now, thanks to everyone who joined in this epic adventure: Ferrell Riley Kyle McCauley Jeff Burke Kristina Vansickle Gary Wilson and Daniel Fowler.

We’re doing a little impromptu Dungeon World adventure at Jax tonight. 6:00 pm, Shepherd Lane. If you’re interested, post in the comments.

Tonight is the first session of Anthology Weekend. What lies behind the gates of the Castle of the Dreaming Doors?

We played The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen on Sunday, which is a classic of the story game genre. It’s a pretty short game, so we played a round of Citadels afterward.

Baron Munchausen was fun. It is of a type we have been playing a lot on SGS lately, which is to say it is a game where the characters sit around a table and tell stories to each other. Other games like this include 1001 Nights, Society of Dreamers, and The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries. Each of these games has a quasi-LARP quality, as they incorporate props and/or table rituals to facilitate the story. Baron Munchausen is definitely a progenitor of the form, as it has virtually no rules, whereas later releases, like The Committee and 1001 Nights, have incorporated mechanics that make them feel a little more like a game. I’m not sure which is preferable, as I have had fun with all of them.

Thanks to everyone who came out: Steve Mains Ferrell Riley Jessica Scott Russell Benner and David LaFreniere .

Another fun game of Dungeon World last night. Our party completed their exploration of the ghost ship, Red Scorpion, and then escaped to Reaver’s Rock using Quaal’s Feather Token (does anyone remember that one from 2nd ed.?). After resupplying, they made their way back to Gull Town for revelry and scheming, but not before a nail-biting encounter with a hydra. 

Thanks to everyone who came out: Marcus Centurian David LaFreniere Jeff Burke Kristen D Kristina Vansickle and Scott Owen 

Some pics from gaming this week.

For Story Game Sunday, we played the new Fiasco playset Unaussprechlichen Klutzen (which was awesome) and Questlandia. 

For Wednesday, Dan ran One Last Job. On Thursday, we continued the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. 

Thanks to everyone who came out: David LaFreniere Susan Carroll Russell Benner Daniel Lewis Steve Mains Aaron Scott Kristen D Scott Owen arturo martinez Daniel Fowler Benjamin Davis and Ferrell Riley.

Some pics from Anthology Friday and Cardboard Thursday. For Thursday, we continued the Pathfinder Card Game. I really, REALLY love that game. Its charms just keep unfurling the more you play it. We finished the introductory adventure, Perils of the Lost Coast, and are moving into the main adventure path, Rise of the Runelords, next week. 

Our game of Dungeon World for the Anthology series was a ton of fun. Lots of laughter and high-stakes adventure, which is pretty much all you can ask for (and the pizza even came!!).  We introduced some new characters last night:

Astrafel, the elven bard, who faced some very cruel die rolls last night, but also some of the most nail biting scenes;

Pigeon Head, the human ranger, whose name I initially hated, but grew to like once I realized he was a sort-of hermit/urban legend type character. His animal companion was a surly, heavy-breathing, obese pigeon;

and Elana, the human druid, who may have used her quarterstaff to inadvertently tee-ball the aforementioned pigeon out of a skeleton’s clutches. 

The party was on their way to Reaver’s Rock, to spend some coin on whores and drink, before getting back to Gull Town. They were sidetracked, however, by the appearance of a legendary ghost ship, the Red Scorpion. 

Thanks to everyone who came out to both nights: Daniel Fowler Ferrell Riley Benjamin Davis David LaFreniere Jeff Burke Kristina Vansickle Marcus Centurian (Brandon) arturo martinez (Isaac) Kristen D Scott Owen and Gary Wilson