Kate Bullock and I are back with another episode of GM Masterclass!
Kate Bullock and I are back with another episode of GM Masterclass! This is the “Behind the Scenes” episode, where we talk about important GM matters that happen away from the table. Specific topics:
What do you do when you only have an hour to prep a session?
How do you prep for a campaign when the group is inconsistent?
Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet actual play and video roundup!
Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet actual play and video roundup! Don’t miss any of the great new APs in the updated playlists and video links below.
– 7th Sea: The Crescent Empire (Session 2 of 4), Lowell Francis runs for Christo Meid, Maria Rivera, Steven desJardins, and Victor Wyatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd0HovmbKKk
– Autumn of the Ancients (Session 1 of 3), Tomer Gurantz facilitates for Christian Svalander, Lauren McManamon, and Yoshi Creelman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiDwcGt9SCI
– World of Dungeons (Turbo): Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand (Session 1 of 2), Richard Ruane runs for Jesse Abelman, Mark Causey, Philipp Neitzel, and Richard Rogers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpIagiUfMx8
Check out all the great videos on The Gauntlet’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QoUve1LQHu_feDx0snd4w and don’t forget to subscribe! Check out the playlists to catch up on all your favorite Gauntlet Hangouts games. To support The Gauntlet and Gauntlet Hangouts, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon at https://patreon.com/gauntlet where $7 and up patrons get priority RSVP for Gauntlet Hangouts games. Enjoy, and everyone have a great weekend!
The long-awaited Yoon-Suin (Part Two) is here! I love every episode of Fear of a Black Dragon, but this one is particularly enjoyable because it contains so much practical information on how to effectively use the setting. I am particularly proud of how we draw directly on the text of the book to discuss things like Front creation for DW/WoDU.
We just released Episodes 05 and 06 of Children of the Eight-Legged She, the newest series in our We Hunt the…
We just released Episodes 05 and 06 of Children of the Eight-Legged She, the newest series in our We Hunt the Keepers! Dungeon World campaign. One of the things I think is so awesome about WHtK!, and it is exemplified in this particular series, is that we’re showing how you can have a Dungeon World campaign that isn’t obsessed with combat. Combat still happens, but the focus is definitely on relationships, weirdness, and lore. That is simply my kind of Dungeon World.
Another nice thing about this series is the really fantastic collaborative worldbuilding that is going on.The main thrust of the adventure comes straight from me, but the contours and the nuance are coming from all of us at the table. There is a great example of this in Episode 05, where we learn the legend of Brandan Barkbender, a character in the mythology of our world that I 100% did not foresee but nevertheless managed to work into the broader story.
And that leads to my final point about what makes WHtK! so great: if you pay close attention, you can see how I am incorporating player-generated details and themes into the broader story (in a way the players aren’t even immediately conscious of). For example, in the last series, the character Arcon went on at some length about creatures from the spirit world, and how those creatures were associated with different colors. He made regular reference to the “Brown Creature of Disobedience,” which turned out to be the spider goddess Malgoliant. But in this new series, as you’re about to see, “colorful creatures” are a major element of the story. And, indeed, the very idea of color is hugely important, as you’ll find out in the episodes to come with Weary and the Grey Rangers (whose name, btw, is also kind of a joke about color, or the lack thereof).
Enjoy!
Cc: Fraser Simons Gerrit Reininghaus steven watkins David LaFreniere
The newest episode of Discern Realities is here! This is the second in our Dungeon World Basics series. For this one, we’re covering combat in DW, which can be one of the most intimidating aspects of the game if you’re coming from something more traditional, like D&D. Our aim here is to de-mystify combat in DW and provide some best practices for running one.
The two episodes of Gauntlet Podcasts I’ve listened to this week were both great – actionable advice about playing…
The two episodes of Gauntlet Podcasts I’ve listened to this week were both great – actionable advice about playing and running games, and also the ever lovely “smart people talking about things they’re passionate about” nerd joy.
I’ll be honest, I don’t often listen to episodes of The Gauntlet podcast once they’re on the feed because I’m the editor and, well, I’ve generally heard every word (and more) quite a few times before it goes up. But this week, I made an exception, specifically to relisten to the excellent discussion about open-table campaign play resulting from Lowell Francis’s quarter-long game of Mutant Year Zero. His takeaways, and the contributions made by Jason Cordova and Kyle Thompson were exemplary: useful, humble, and thoughtful.
I do regularly listen to +1 Forward in the feed, because my ears haven’t already been taken hostage by it, and this week’s episode on Player Agendas and Principles proved quite rewarding. Rach Shelkey and Richard Rogers really put in the work, and their combined experience and smarts created a thing that should spark thoughts for me and others for some time to come.
Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet actual play and video roundup!
Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet actual play and video roundup! Don’t miss any of the great new APs in the updated playlists and video links below.
Gauntlet Sunday
– Coriolis: The Third Horizon (Session 1 of 5), Lowell Francis runs for Christo Meid, Fraser Simons, Patrick Knowles, and Auzumel S: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNYADsidIAk
TGI Thursday
– 7th Sea: The Crescent Empire (Session 1 of 4), Lowell Francis runs for Christo Meid, Maria Rivera, Taejas Kudva, and Victor Wyatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToSKsjCZhbk
Star Wars Saturday
– Apocalypse World Tatooine (Session 4 of 4), Richard Rogers runs for Lowell Francis, Pawel Solowczuk, Steve Moore, and Tyler Lominack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlioGZgG7jU
– Hack the Planet: Reap What Was Sown (Session 1 of 4), Mathias Belger runs for Christian Svalander, Mikael Tysvær, and Ryan McNeil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxQvqfxuCgU
– City of Mist: A Night of Falling Stars (Session 1 of 5), +Maria Rivera runs for +Bethany H, +Darren Brockes, +David Rothfeder, and +Simon Landreville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLVN0asMPA0
– Lady Blackbird: Flight of the Owl (Session 1 of 4), Sidney Icarus runs for Ary Ramsey, Ellen Saxon, Lu Quade, Stephen Humphreys, and Tomer Gurantz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meW7y0Dq210
– Blades in the Dark: Whitethorn Manor 1.1, Mark Diaz Truman runs for Chet Farley, Fraser Simons, Gerrit Reininghaus, and Matthew Doughty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFEXQlfoOBY
– Seco Creek Vigilance Committee (Session 1 of 2), Shane Liebling runs for David Heyes, Jason Yoakam, Josh, Larry S, and Sam Zeitlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wDbj-8UM0
– The Black Hack/City State of the Invincible Overlord: Under the Hellbridge, Richard Ruane runs for Brian Wille, Chris Newton, Keith Martin, Michael Mendoza, and Rory MacLeod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H88XXej79zQ
– Monsterhearts 2: Camp Mercy Falls (Sessions 1 and 2 of 2), Jason Cordova runs for Kevthulhu, Michael X. Heiligenstein, and Patrick Knowles:
– Hack the Planet: Blue Oolong (Session 5 of 8), Fraser Simons runs for Aaron DeRosa, Jesse Larimer, Lauren McManamon, and Lu Quade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3UEyEDc2g
Check out all the great videos on The Gauntlet’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9QoUve1LQHu_feDx0snd4w and don’t forget to subscribe! Check out the playlists to catch up on all your favorite Gauntlet Hangouts games. To support The Gauntlet and Gauntlet Hangouts, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon at https://patreon.com/gauntlet where $7 and up patrons get priority RSVP for Gauntlet Hangouts games. Enjoy, and everyone have a great weekend!
You asked for it, Rach Shelkey and I provide you with an episode of +1 Forward on Player Agenda and Principles.
You asked for it, Rach Shelkey and I provide you with an episode of +1 Forward on Player Agenda and Principles.
We workshopped this over several days, and I’m excited to see this out in the world. I feel these A and P encapsulate how the best Gauntlet game sessions happen, and I’m proud of this episode.
In the newest episode of The Gauntlet Podcast, Lowell Francis and I are joined by Kyle Thompson to discuss the…
In the newest episode of The Gauntlet Podcast, Lowell Francis and I are joined by Kyle Thompson to discuss the practical considerations of open table campaign play, like we practice in Gauntlet Hangouts; Worlds of Adventure, an unofficial 2e of Dungeon World currently in development; and running a Carcosa hexcrawl.
It’s a pretty fantastic conversation, particularly the open table play discussion, which is something I know a lot of people find puzzling about our community. I have been running campaigns open table for a long time, but Lowell is fairly new to it, so it was interesting to hear his perspectives on the matter.
Thanks to Paul Edson for the sharp edit on this episode.
