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I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine…

I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine signature series on Gauntlet Hangouts. The idea was to run through one of the adventures in the very first issue of Dungeon Magazine using World of Dungeons. We ended up enjoying these sessions so much, we have actually extended the series for two more sessions in December (off-calendar).

The videos to these first three sessions are linked below. Here are a few reasons why you might be interested in checking them out:

1) This is really terrific WoDu play. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me about how I run WoDu (a result of Fear of a Black Dragon, no doubt), and this is a pretty terrific example of how I use the system.

2) The story is just really fucking good. We started with the module as our foundation, but using establishing questions and a whole lot of collaborative fiction, we ended up with something far more interesting. It starts off with the basic “getting to know you/traveling through the wilderness” stuff that most of my adventures start with, but once we get to Fort Silam, it becomes this dark, fascinating tale about nightmares and regret.

3) The players here do a great job extrapolating out from the simple character classes in WoDu. One of the things I love about the game is that because it has such a sturdy mechanical foundation, you can build all kinds of custom stuff on top of it, and many of the players really embrace that aspect of the game to make their characters unique.

4) I manage to claim a few tears for my collection! I have lately been really interested in emotional play, and getting the players misty-eyed in the middle of the session is a major priority. We get a lot of emotion around the middle of the third session (which was probably one of my favorite sessions this year).

Session 1 is linked below.

Session 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKd626ozbg&feature=youtu.be&a=

Session 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZI5zoa0Vk0&feature=youtu.be&a=

Thanks to the players for bringing it: Jennifer Erixon Fraser Simons Kyle Hodnett and Matthew Doughty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5SZQIQWrg&feature=youtu.be&a

Hey folks!

Hey folks! I’m looking for nice people to game with and I was pointed in this direction by a kind soul on the dice.camp Mastodon instance. I’m really keen to play Iron Kingdoms after picking up the recent Privateer Press Humble Bundle and I wondered if anyone round these parts ran a game.

As for me, I’m an experienced role-player based in the UK (though I’m a bit of a night owl, so East Coast US games suit me fine too.) I enjoy both in-depth, angst-ridden, character-driven role-play and swording things in the face for XP.

Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope to get to know folks better soon!

If you’re a Gauntleteer and go to a Double Exposure convention, there is a really strong chance Dylan Ross will put…

If you’re a Gauntleteer and go to a Double Exposure convention, there is a really strong chance Dylan Ross will put a small medical tube in your hand, and that tube will have a whole roleplaying game in it!

Last year we got John Harper’s Lasers and Feelings. This year it was Cheat Your Own Adventure!

So cool!

I’ll be running a West Coast eve oneshot of Dungeon World on 12/4 based on the Shipwreck starter.

I’ll be running a West Coast eve oneshot of Dungeon World on 12/4 based on the Shipwreck starter. Come dork out with me!

https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/event-detail/-Kz04ZKbEY8XQix3pmx_

I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games.

I’m taking a look back over 2017 and my experiences playing and running games. I track all my games played on RPGGeek, so it was pretty easy to pull all my stats. I then broke it down a few different ways.

– As of November 15th, I’ve played in 202 RPG sessions, the vast majority of them over Hangouts, with face-to-face games happening with my family, at Origins, and GenCon.

– I’ve GMed 112 games, and played in 90 of them. I strive hard to play with different GMs, learn their styles, steal all their good bits for my own games as much as I can. My GM-to-play mix was surprising. I didn’t realize I was GMing only 55% of the time. Yay me!

– I played 38 games new to me, many were Kickstarters, but most of them were from Gauntlet City Limits games or the Carousel with Andrea G, Brice Coolen, and William Nabors. I did not count games that I played during recordings of +1 Forward for any of this, or my new games played would be a bit higher.

– I participated in the Ladder of Insanity again this year, and decided that it wasn’t insane enough so I challenged myself to only count PbtA games. I know, it’s “insane”! As a result of that, as well as my love of exploring PbtA games, I played in 138 sessions of PbtA games. Of those sessions, I was the MC for 85 of them. By the by, I will COMPLETE the Ladder of Insanity next Tuesday when Fraser Simons runs my 10 session of The Veil! I’m so excited! Once I complete it this year, I am retiring from that competition.

– I was able to play in a few games that I’d only ever GMed before this year – Legend of the Elements and Spirit of ’77. I’ve still only ever GMed Impulse Drive and 1%er. I’ve only ever played World Wide Wrestling and 7th Sea 2nd edition.

– I’ve had an average of 3-5 play-by-post games ongoing for the entire year, mixing the games and groups as games come to a conclusion and we start up new ones. It’s a wonderful experience and a vital part of my daily fun.

All in all, it was a wonderful year for gaming for me. I ran 2.1 games a week on average, and played in 1.7 games a week. That’s almost 4 games a week!

In 2018, I’m looking to cut down the quantity of games I’m playing and focus on the quality of them. I want to have some longer arcs and mini-campaigns, I want to develop one or two long-standing gaming groups and get back into that routine of social interaction with people as well as fellow players.

Here is a link to the second session of Monsterhearts 2: Mercy Falls 3!

Here is a link to the second session of Monsterhearts 2: Mercy Falls 3! This session was just dynamite, easily in my Top 5 of any game sessions I have played this year. If you have been keeping up with the Mercy Falls saga, this one is going to give you all the life!

Thanks to the players, who absolutely knocked it out of the park: Fraser Simons Phillip Wessels Lowell Francis and Kevin Lovecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZIHFMQBlYU

Rob Abrazado and Graham Meinert Serial Homicide Unit is a slick little game, the rules fit on only 4 pages.

Rob Abrazado and Graham Meinert Serial Homicide Unit is a slick little game, the rules fit on only 4 pages. It’s played between multiple rounds of 2 kinds of scenes, one story gamey and one board gamey. Civilian scenes are where you play out the lives of the potential victims as they overcome obstacles and pursue their hopes and dreams. At the end of which one civilian gets killed at random. Then you have investigation scenes where you come up the with evidence found at that murder scene, based around your roles in the police force. When you feel you have enough chains of evidence, you can try to roll for an indictment. If you fail to get the indictment it sets you back on your evidence, and another civilian is going to get killed at the end of the next civilian scenes. This creates a bit of strategy and potential frustration. If you succeed the killer is caught. The system is very effective for as short as it it. I ran it for some cops last month and they had a great time with it.

Top 5 Roleplaying Games

Top 5 Roleplaying Games

Give me your Top 5 tabletop RPGs or LARPs as of right now. No need to justify your picks, but if you want to have a good-natured discussion in the comments, I’m cool with that, too.

Mine:

1. Monsterhearts 2

2. World of Dungeons

3. Cheat Your Own Adventure

4. Dungeon World

5. My Life with Master

On Episode 121 of The Gauntlet, Richard Rogers mentioned a “love letter” I wrote inspired by Mark Causey’s…

On Episode 121 of The Gauntlet, Richard Rogers mentioned a “love letter” I wrote inspired by Mark Causey’s delightful Monsterhearts game during Gauntlet Con. It’s not so much fan fiction as it is a way to capture that “Starting the Second Season of a show, after EVERYTHING changed in the First Season finale”…

This is an un-tested alpha version of a set of procedures I’m calling “The Second Season.” Enjoy, if you want!

And here is mooore Monsterhearts AP.

And here is mooore Monsterhearts AP. This one is the first session of a spin-off series called Mercy Fall ’83. It takes place 30+ years before the beginning of the mainline Mercy Falls story.

We did something really interesting for this one: sticking with the 80s vibe, we did a set-up inspired by the Breakfast Club, with the main characters at weekend detention. Instead of doing a normal homeroom set-up procedure, we did a much smaller, more focused “weekend detention” set-up.

So far, I’m loving the characters in this one. As in the Breakfast Club, they couldn’t be more different from one another, and exploring those dynamics is going to be fun. My goal is to go for a much closer, more emotional series than the mainline Mercy Falls series (which is very horror-focused and dramatic).

Thanks to the players for a great time! Lauren McManamon Philipp Neitzel and Fraser Simons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJ6Ci3nNf8