Category: The Gauntlet: Our Community

Some pics from my last couple days of gaming. On Sunday, I played some board/card games with some buddies in Austin. We played Pandemic, Bohnanza, and Love Letter. The version of Pandemic we played was the new one, which I didn’t have any experience with (although I have played the old edition dozens of times). It had some interesting new characters choices and a strange paucity of Event cards. Still, it was good old Pandemic, and a lot of fun. 

There are also a few pics from last night’s Wednesday One-Shots. We had a good-sized group come out (around 14, I think), although I think a couple of the new people were poachers and we’re not likely to see them again. Still, everyone had a good time (even the no-good, dirty poachers). The games played were Havoc Brigade and Trail of Cthulhu.

Thanks to Daniel Lewis for organizing Wednesday, and to everyone else who came out: Angel Ludwig Ferrell Riley David LaFreniere Russell Benner James Melott Kerry Harrison Jenny Barendt, the people I can’t tag (Michael, Isaac, Kyle, Nate) and a couple of people whose name I didn’t catch. 

This tournament on RPG Geek has been going on for awhile and it is oddly compelling. The Final Eight are:

Monster of the Week v. Mouse Guard

Apocalypse World v. Dungeon World (this one is super close!)

Lady Blackbird v. Trail of Cthulhu

Fiasco v. Fate

I think we should pull together as a community to help put Dungeon World on top. 

http://rpggeek.com/geeklist/175761/best-rpgs-tournament-elite-eight-voting

The Hall of Legends is coming. Gird thyself…

Some pics from Board Game Monday and Wednesday One-Shots. 

On Monday, we played Letters from Whitechapel. It is excellent. Our game was incredibly tense and nerve-wracking (but in a good way!).

On Wednesday, we played Brian Engard’s Becoming, Trail of Cthulhu and Dungeon World. I can’t speak to the other two games, but our game of Becoming was pretty rad. Our setting was a Hotel California-like apartment complex, and we told a macabre and tragic tale of one man’s inability to escape it. 

I’ll let other people chime-in on the other games played.

Thanks to those who ran games and came out to play: Daniel Lewis Angel Ludwig Daniel Fowler Ferrell Riley David LaFreniere Kristen D Scott Owen James Melott Gary Wilson Isaac (who I can’t tag for some reason) and Ferrell’s friend (whose name I can’t remember at the moment – apologies). 

We were supposed to play The Farm for Story Game Sunday today, but because of some personal circumstances, Doyle Tavener  had to back out of running it. Hopefully we will get to play that one soon, because it looks horrifying and awesome.

Instead, we played a game of The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries. This is one I have wanted to play for awhile. It turned out to be a little cumbersome, mechanically, but we still had great fun with it because everyone at the table was very on-point with their character. If we do it again, we will likely use the Quick Play rules included in the back of the book, which everyone agreed would probably smooth out some of the issues we had with the game. 

As stated, everyone did a great job with their character and really got into the pulp spirit of things. Dan’s Australian pilot, who had a burning desire to one-up Charles Lindbergh, was freaking hilarious, mostly because Dan does an amazing, camp Aussie accent. Steve channeled Aleister Crowley for his soft-spoken, drug-fueled mystic, and he played it perfectly – very serious and creepy, but with glimpses of the charlatan underneath. Jessica played a big-game hunter who never met an animal she didn’t want to kill and stuff. The fact her character was raised in a convent provided a nice juxtaposition to her savagery, which was played to great comic effect. Ferrell played a corn-fed American journalist who didn’t pay much mind to our characters’ affectations, and whose ‘aw-shucks’, country charm was a nice counterpoint to the grandiose pretensions of the story. And I played a thrill-seeking English aristocrat, doted-on by his Indian manservant, Paboosh (and his other hereditary servants), and fueled by a burning hatred for the Gerrys. 

Thanks to Daniel Lewis Steve Mains Jessica Scott and Ferrell Riley for a great time today!

Here are the remaining events for this summer, since I know some of you have trouble with Google’s (horrible) Event system:

08.01.14 – Carcosa (Session 2)

08.03.14 – Story Game Sunday – Society of Dreamers

08.04.14 – Board Game Monday – Eldritch Horror

08.06.14 – Wednesday One-Shots – Questlandia

08.07.14 – Thursday Hangouts – tremulus (Sign-up week)

08.08.14 – Carcosa (Session 3)

08.10.14 – Story Game Sunday – Kagematsu

08.11.14 – Board Game Monday – Game TBD

08.13.14 – Wednesday One-Shots – Games TBD

08.15.14 – Carcosa (Session 4)

08.17.14 – Story Game Sunday – Solipsist

08.22.14 – The Gauntlet Anthology – Dungeon World

08.24.14 – Story Game Sunday – Lasers & Feelings

08.29.14 – The Gauntlet Anthology- Dungeon World

08.31.14 – Story Game Sunday – The Death of the Gilded Age

I’m pinning this post to the top of the page. I will update it as things are settled on. If you see a blank and have something you want to run, just let me know and we’ll see if we can fit it in. 

We have two Story Game Sunday dates to fill in August – the 10th and the 17th. Does anyone have something they want to run?

Today we played cyberpunk game Remember Tomorrow. It is, ideally, a 3 or 4 player game (we had 6) but we still had a great time with it. I’d definitely play it again.

Thanks to Daniel Lewis for organizging, and Aaron Scott Ferrell Riley Rob Ferguson and Isaac Martinez for coming out!