Category: The Gauntlet: Podcast

For this week’s podcast, we have an interview with Emily Care Boss! In addition to being a legend of indie game design, Emily is just a really fun and genuine person, and this interview is fantastic. We cover a wide range of topics, from romance games to LARP to noir fiction and more! Check it out!

Some links: 

Emily’s Patreon Info

http://www.blackgreengames.com/patreon/

Last Chance Noir blog

http://www.blackgreengames.com/lcn/

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/interview-with-emily-care-boss

We talk a lot about gameplay and mechanics, but I’m curious to get some feedback from the community on the following: which games have books that are just really beautiful objects? Like, when you hold them in your hands, they just feel special. It could be for a variety of reasons; color, paper quality, and artwork come to mind, but also things like layout and typeface can have a similar effect. 

I’ll do mine here: the core rulebook for Dungeon Crawl Classics. In addition to having a ton of old-school fantasy art (which is catnip to me), the sheer size and weight of the book gives it the feel of some great, ancient tome. The layout is also terrific, with the drawings often taking up the whole page, and the text sort of artfully arranged within. The whole book has a sense of exploration about it, which I love. 

Which book would you recommend, and why?

We have an amazing interview for you guys on Friday’s podcast. I can’t wait to share it with you!

Episode 29 of The Gauntlet Podcast is out today! This one is pretty terrific (with thanks to Richard Rogers  for taking over editing duties this week). Here’s a breakdown:

Games We Have Been Playing

The Dresden Files FAE

Dungeon World

Lacuna Pt. 1 by Jared Sorenson 

Masks by Brendan Conway 

Monster of the Week by Michael Sands 

Urban Shadows by Andrew Medeiros 

Soth  by Steve Hickey 

Main Topic – Some Introductory Story Games (and the Lessons They Teach)

Primetime Adventures by Matt Wilson 

Apocalypse World by Vincent Baker 

Microscope by Ben Robbins 

Archipelago III by Matthijs Holter 

InSpectres by Jared Sorensen 

Community Feedback

An interesting discussion sparked by comments from Davide Pignedoli  and Ryan Ó Laoithe 

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-29

On Episode 28 of The Gauntlet Podcast, we welcome Richard Rogers,  who joins the show as a regular co-host. The games we discuss include:

Michael Sands ‘s   Monster of the Week

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire

Monikers

Avery Mcdaldno’s   Monsterhearts

Play-by-Post gaming

Jared Sorensen’s   Lacuna Pt. 1

A Penny for My Thoughts

Evil Hat Productions  The Dresden Files: Fate Accelerated Edition

 Brendan Conway’s  Masks 

Our main topic covers the joys and best practices of playtesting in-development games. 

Here are the relevant links from this episode:

Masks KS

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1277034820/masks-a-new-generation

RPG Zine Community

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101270752323854044371

Indie+ Discussion Community

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100260706633299261636

7th Continent KS

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1926712971/the-7th-continent-explore-survive-you-are-the-hero?ref=nav_search

Nathan Paoletta and Will Hindmarch’s  Podcast

http://designgamespodcast.tumblr.com

Geek Life 

http://www.shopgeeklife.com/

Psionics RPG

http://www.endtransmissiongames.com/psionics.html

Trident Con

http://www.tridentcon.org

Virtuacon

https://plus.google.com/communities/109731066728042855503

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-28-playtesting-games

It’s Community Feedbaaaaack!

Put something on our radar. It can be a game, a convention, a particular designer, a Kickstarter campaign, or something gaming-adjacent, like a book or movie that inspires your play. Say a few things about why it’s noteworthy. 

For this week’s podcast,  I did an interview with Becky Annison  & Joshua Fox! Becky & Josh are kickstarting a new game called Lovecraftesque. It looks tremendous. In fact, it looks like the Lovecraft game of my fucking dreams. I can’t wait to play it!

Here is the link to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1122788890/lovecraftesque

Here is a link to their website, where they have free games, essays and other goodies: http://blackarmada.com

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/interview-with-josh-fox-becky-annison