Category: The Gauntlet: Our Community

Lookie what Matt Jackson found, a giant 25″ x 30″ pad of Post-it graph paper:

Lookie what Matt Jackson found, a giant 25″ x 30″ pad of Post-it graph paper:

Lookie what Matt Jackson found, a giant 25″ x 30″ pad of Post-it graph paper:

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Anyone who games with me knows I enjoy making laminated play aids almost as much as I enjoy gaming itself (it’s my…

Anyone who games with me knows I enjoy making laminated play aids almost as much as I enjoy gaming itself (it’s my…

Anyone who games with me knows I enjoy making laminated play aids almost as much as I enjoy gaming itself (it’s my version of painting minis). I was organizing them the other day and thought I’d take a pic. 

This has turned into another amazing week of gaming: Dungeon World – Oceans of Order & Chaos on Tuesday; Apoc World…

This has turned into another amazing week of gaming: Dungeon World – Oceans of Order & Chaos on Tuesday; Apoc World…

This has turned into another amazing week of gaming: Dungeon World – Oceans of Order & Chaos on Tuesday; Apoc World on Wednesday; Space City Con Risus Playtest (with MotW spillover) on Thursday; Fear Itself on Friday; and Sweet Agatha with my sister on Saturday. Love it!

I’m reading through Durance and getting a kick out of how attractive the book is. Which got me thinking…

I’m reading through Durance and getting a kick out of how attractive the book is. Which got me thinking…

I’m reading through Durance and getting a kick out of how attractive the book is. Which got me thinking…

What is my favorite RPG book in terms of aesthetics? Art, typefaces, ink & paper quality, and so forth.

And then I couldn’t name a single book, so I broke it up into three categories:

Quality of materials – Burning Wheel Gold

Art – Dungeon Crawl Classics

Design (typefaces, logos, layout) – A tie between Shab Al-Hiri Roach and Lacuna. 

Anyone care to share their picks?

I feel the urge to spend some money at DriveThru.

I feel the urge to spend some money at DriveThru.

I feel the urge to spend some money at DriveThru. I’m going to pick-up Twenty-Four Game Poems (recommended by Stephen Crawford ). I may pick-up something from Spes Magna to be supportive (but adapt to Dungeon World, obviously).

Any other suggestions? 

Hello, another new joiner to The Gauntlet.

Hello, another new joiner to The Gauntlet.

Hello, another new joiner to The Gauntlet. I started gaming somewhere around 1979 or 1980 playing my first game of Basic D&D with the Holmes and later Moldvay set. I gamed pretty heavy through the 80’s playing D&D, Star Frontiers, a very heavily “house rules” version of Gamma World, and few sessions of other stuff like Traveller, MERP, Space Opera. Gaming slowed up when most of the group ended up going to college or the Marine Corps. I did some limited gaming in the early 90’s but “retired” my dice as life got way too busy.

Recently I’ve been getting back interested in gaming again, catching up on what’s going on in gaming today, getting my wife interested in gaming, played a few scenarios of Pathfinder last year, etc. Hoping to get some table time in at Space City Con coming up soon. Any other folks going to be gaming at Space City? I know for sure I’m going to try to play my first game of Call of Cthulhu there.

Hello peoples of the Gauntlet!

Hello peoples of the Gauntlet!

Hello peoples of the Gauntlet! My name is Nicole Lawton. I don’t live in Houston, but I’m only about an hour and and a half out in Beaumont. I currently run a Dragonlance game set in the fifth age using the pathfinder system. In the past I’ve also run Blue Rose and some pathfinder in her default setting! My husband also runs a pathfinder game with his own story line. We also like to play Traveler, Shadowrun, Runequest, and a few homegrown gamesin our area. I look forward to meeting other gamers and discussing their gaming experiences!