Category: The Gauntlet: Podcast

Episode 52 of The Gauntlet Podcast is out today! Here is the breakdown:

Play List

Various flavors of Pandemic talk (00:50)

2nd session of Scott Owen’s Mass Effect Worlds playtest (06:39)

Michael Prescott’s Circle of Wolves (11:57)

Star Wars Risk (16:24)

Feeling better about Monster of the Week (21:17)

Further exploring the lack of an Interfere move in Monster of the Week (24:46)

clash bowley’s High Strung (28:09)

Marc Majcher’s Fluffy Bunny Tea Party (33:36)

Masks RPG (38:47)

Community Feedback

Inspirations for role playing in other mediums (a follow-up discussion from Jason’s The White Ribbon post) (43:58)

Using the lingo of comic books (45:32)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (48:26)

Victorian novels, Disney characters, and other ways of informing characterization (52:35)

Our Play Aids folder (54:54)

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByS4_7KbXro_UjhDSEtNbm0zRUU&usp=sharing

Quick mention of Tor’s posts about playing games with his kid (56:13)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-52-big-ups

Since I’m not on Episode 51 of The Gauntlet Podcast, I can talk about how much I love it. This is the Gauntlet at its best, if you ask me. The episode is focused almost entirely on play, and some really nice discussion comes out of it. Since there is no rush to get to a main topic, everyone gets to breathe a little bit, and the pace is conversational. I’m also very happy with the new Community Feedback segment, which gives the show a chance to highlight what I love about the Gauntlet: the people who participate in our community.

Great job Richard Rogers Kristen D and Steve Mains (with a special shout-out to Steve for the superb edit).

Playlist

Something about strippers, booze, and cake (00:17)

Playtesting Scott Owen’s Mass Effect Worlds (02:09)

Liam Burke’s Dog Eat Dog (05:30)

Concept (09:23)

Enforcing tone – problems & solutions (12:20)

Teamwork in Monster of the Week (21:03)

XP and progression in Powered by the Apocalypse games (24:22)

“Use Magic” as a Basic Move in Monster of the Week (26:22)

The interplay between moves and fiction in Brendan Conway’s Masks (28:40)

Imperial Assault (40:49)

Community Feedback

Ferrell Riley’s Rules & Rituals? Procedures & Protocols? Pernicious Pedagogies? (45:05)

https://plus.google.com/104787679004447304330/posts/jfwXhtnLgkk

Daniel Lewis’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons in VR (49:40)

https://plus.google.com/+DanielLewis/posts/jR9hGVntQgQ

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-51-pernicious-pedagogies

Daniel Lewis and Kristen D join us for a pretty chill Episode 50 of The Gauntlet Podcast.

Play List

Pandemic Legacy (00:56)

Monster of the Week (04:39)

Dungeons & Dragons and XP on a miss (06:05)

Too many players at the table? (10:48)

Ninja Burger RPG (13:27)

Gauntlet City Limits (16:21)

Adventures on Dungeon Planet (17:05)

Vast & Starlit (20:40)

We create an alien race (26:25)

Giving Me Life

Finishing Mass Effect 2 (29:49)

Birthday resolutions (30:23)

Phones? Lasers? (33:59)

Phablet? Fablet! (36:07)

Room 237 (36:58)

Cheating at video games (43:00)

Enjoying spoiler culture (44:16)

Consumer-level VR (obvi) (45:25)

Our VR LARP future (48:32)

Thanks for 50 episodes! (50:30)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-50

Episode 14 of Discern Realities is here! Here are the time codes:

What Happened Here Recently?

The Company of the Three Kings (00:21)

Company stats (02:02)

Company features (03:16)

What Should I Be On the Lookout For?

The Dungeon World Codex (05:58)

http://codex.dungeon-world.com

What Here is Not What It Appears to Be?

Inhabiting your character at the table (08:01)

Adopt one physical or verbal tic per character (09:45)

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me?

Results of the magic item contest (12:08)

What is About to Happen?

Our ‘comic strip’ AP featuring Domenico Castafiel (20:55)

The Castafiel children (23:05)

Domenico’s wizardly origin (24:22)

Low magic (25:16)

An ostentatious arrival (25:58)

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-14

Episode 49 of The Gauntlet Podcast is about ritual. We discuss a few games that use it in a powerful way, and some ideas for incorporating ritual into games that don’t already have it. Enjoy!

Opening Segment

Dungeon World and The Seclusium of Orphone of the Three Visions (00:16)

The glass cube (03:41)

Steve expresses his desire to play Dungeon World (06:04)

The importance of getting feedback from your group (06:45)

Getting a game back on track after it jumps the shark (08:06)

Monsterhearts is awesome (10:39)

Fiasco: Unaussprechlichen Klutzen (12:07)

Giving Me Life

GM Self-Improvement (15:00)

Thinking critically about your setting (16:15)

Baseball, I think? (17:43)

The Carcosa playlist (20:10)

Loving the Wednesday crew (22:26)

Main Segment

Ritual in Games (23:04)

Polaris’s use of ritual to enforce tone (24:00)

Society of Dreamers (26:17)

Helping dice in Burning Wheel (29:55)

Hand-shaking rituals in Beast Hunters (32:09)

Referring to players by their character’s name (34:49)

Archipelago III (38:23)

Start-of-game rituals and end-of-game rituals (41:23)

Meta/Out-of-character rituals (42:48)

Post-game rituals (46:46)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-49-ritual-in-games

Episode 13 of Discern Realities is here! A quick note about the magic item contest: the deadline for submissions is April 3rd at 12:00 pm EST. You can paste the text of your item in the comments on this post. 

What Happened Here Recently? (00:22)

All hands on deck to take down a dragon

What Should I Be on the Lookout For? (05:54)

Vincent Baker’s The Seclusium of Orphone of the Three Visions

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/117258/The-Seclusium-of-Orphone-of-the-Three-Visions

What Here is Not What it Appears to Be? (10:23)

The Mage playbook

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (20:01)

josh gary’s The Origami Bestiary (20:43)

The Marvelous Scabbard of Bran Baereddyn (22:14)

Christopher Sniezak’s The Chromatic Cup (23:50)

What Is About to Happen? (26:01)

What is Domenico trying to find at Iotho’s party? (26:30)

The curse of the Castafiels (27:22)

The Unseen Servant (28:15)

Edvard the Majordomo (30:30)

Social cat & mouse (32:00)

Domenico’s deal with Edvard (35:13)

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-13

This week on The Gauntlet Podcast, we welcome writer and game designer Anna Kreider to talk about all sorts of things, including her upcoming game The Watch. Enjoy!

Play List

Star Wars World (00:44)

Masks (04:18)

Blades in the Dark (07:45)

Giving Me Life

Tetanus shots (16:29)

Co-designing games (18:00)

Slack App (19:44)

The Watch

Overview of The Watch (21:42)

Transgendered and non-binary characters in the setting (22:39)

Why is it important the protagonists are exclusively women? (23:33)

Gameplay structure (27:06)

Moves & mechanical frameworks (28:12)]

What’s next for The Watch? (31:45)

General Questions

How did Anna get into game design? (32:32)

Is hacking real game design? (34:38)

Diversity in gaming (35:55)

Final Question

Thou Art But a Werewolf (40:15)

Links

Anna’s blog: https://gomakemeasandwich.wordpress.com

Anna’s games: http://browserbeware.com/games/

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-48-anna-kreider