Episode 41 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here (a couple of hours early)! Here’s the breakdown:

Episode 41 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here (a couple of hours early)! Here’s the breakdown:

Episode 41 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here (a couple of hours early)! Here’s the breakdown:

Games We Played

Codenames (00:40)

John Harper’s  Ghost Lines (08.20)

Avery Mcdaldno’s Monsterhearts (13:25)

Dungeon World (and not Jason this time!) (18:07)

Giving Me Life

Wrapping-up a Long-term PbP (20:45)

Making a Murderer (23:28)

Dan ripping my fucking heart out (28:24)

Main Topic

One-shotting a game (34:15)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-41-one-shotting-a-game

I have reached out to a number of game designers over the last few months to see if they would be interested in…

I have reached out to a number of game designers over the last few months to see if they would be interested in…

I have reached out to a number of game designers over the last few months to see if they would be interested in being on our show. I find it surprising how many of them either 1) don’t check Hangouts or G+ regularly, and so don’t know to respond or 2) are so disinterested in being on the show, they can’t be bothered with a response. Oh well…I just keep moving through the list. Maybe we can get those people next year.

On Episode 40 of The Gauntlet Podcast, we welcome Andrew Medeiros, designer of Urban Shadows and other fine games…

On Episode 40 of The Gauntlet Podcast, we welcome Andrew Medeiros, designer of Urban Shadows and other fine games…

On Episode 40 of The Gauntlet Podcast, we welcome Andrew Medeiros, designer of Urban Shadows and other fine games Powered by the Apocalypse. Here is a breakdown:

Games We Played

Brad Murray’s Hollowpoint (00:37)

The Watch (6:05)

Wilhelm Person’s Until Dawn (10:46)

Giving Me Life

Street Star (18:07)

Self-publishing (19:29)

Games with Massive Learning Curves (22:46)

Interview Segment

Urban Shadows (26:20)

The Forgotten (34:47)

Legends of the Guard (38:00)

Why PbtA? (41:28)

Drew’s inspirations (44:58)

In-production card game (47:39)

The Final Question (48:36)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-40-andrew-medeiros

I just finally finished listening to all the episodes of the podcast, and now that I’m done (until new episodes come…

I just finally finished listening to all the episodes of the podcast, and now that I’m done (until new episodes come…

I just finally finished listening to all the episodes of the podcast, and now that I’m done (until new episodes come out) I wanted to say something.

Let me preface this with the fact that I absolutely love the show. It is tied with Alex Roberts​ new podcast for my favourite podcast actually.

That said, there is one niggling annoyance that I just wanted to get out there. Storygames are not all low crunch, and trad games are not all heavy crunch. Fudge for instance? Totally low crunch trad game. And Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine has to be yhe most storyest storygame that ever did storygame, and that corebook is thicker than the Hero corebook.

Anyway, I just wanted to let that out there. I totally love your show and I can’t wait to hear more of it.

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is out today! Here is a breakdown:

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is out today! Here is a breakdown:

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is out today! Here is a breakdown:

What Happened Here Recently? (00:31)

Using Microscope to involve your players in world creation

What Should I Be On the Lookout For? (6:43)

Take On Establishments

[http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/107759/Take-on-Establishments]

Take On Games

[http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106849/Take-on-Magic-Items]

What Here is Not What It Appears to Be? (14:21)

Undertake a Perilous Journey

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (20:50)

Custom Move – Visions of Death

What is About to Happen? (25:30)

Our ongoing comic strip ‘AP’ following the adventures of Ramshackle Crow

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-5

Gaming Resolutions for 2016

Gaming Resolutions for 2016

Gaming Resolutions for 2016

The segment that got cut due to audio issues in Episode 38 of The Gauntlet Podcast was about our 2016 Gaming Resolutions. In it, we discuss the games we resolve to play in 2016, plus a few extra game-related resolutions. Here are my lists:

Games to Play

Itras By

Primetime Adventures

Misericorde

Sorcerer

Other Game-Related Resolutions

-Finish-up Chuck Eat Cheese, Transmission, and Public Access.

-Explore the viability of a game inspired by the Manhattan ballroom scene of the 1980’s,  as seen in the film Paris is Burning, and the mystery of one of its principal characters, Dorian Corey. 

-Attend a London-based game convention. 

What are your gaming resolutions of 2016? 

Episode 39 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here!

Episode 39 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here!

Episode 39 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here! We are reviving a segment from one of Rich’s old shows called Game Advocates. I agreed to be the first person up, advocating for Dungeon World in this episode. We have also made the first segment less sprawling. Feedback is welcome for both segments. 

Here is a breakdown:

Games We Played

Creepy Doll Studios’s Bath Salts (00:23)

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118449/Bath-Salts

Gregor Hutton’s Remember Tomorrow (07:30)

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/81526/Remember-Tomorrow?term=remember+to

Giving Me Life

Downsizing (19:00)

Comic Strip AP (22:57)

Main Topic – Dungeon World Advocate (26:59)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-39-game-advocates-dungeon-world

Episode 4 of Discern Realities was released today! Here is a breakdown:

Episode 4 of Discern Realities was released today! Here is a breakdown:

Episode 4 of Discern Realities was released today! Here is a breakdown: 

What Happened Here Recently (00:20)

A tragic romance in the Castle of the Dreaming Doors.

What Should I Be On the Lookout For? (06:57)

Johnstone Metzger’s Terrors of the Ancient World and Wizard-Spawned Insanities

What Here is Not What it Appears to Be? (10:50)

Player versus player conflict (with a quick shout-out to Urban Shadows by Andrew Medeiros). 

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (18:33)

Osmun the Unsourceable and Nemrath’s Almanac.

What is About to Happen? (24:06)

Our ongoing ‘comic strip’ AP following the adventures of Ramshackle Crow.

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-4

My favorite part of the new Dungeon World show is the little AP segment at the end of each episode.

My favorite part of the new Dungeon World show is the little AP segment at the end of each episode.

My favorite part of the new Dungeon World show is the little AP segment at the end of each episode. It’s fun to record and fun to listen to. I would love to expand on the idea a bit…