I know G+ is already dead and you’re all on MeWe now, but I nevertheless have a late-night blog post for you.

I know G+ is already dead and you’re all on MeWe now, but I nevertheless have a late-night blog post for you.

I know G+ is already dead and you’re all on MeWe now, but I nevertheless have a late-night blog post for you. It’s all about Calamity Raccoon’s Good Time Pizza Farm, the newest announced stretch goal for the Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter. In this post, I share some of the inspirations for Calamity’s, including my long-time fascination with Chuck E. Cheese’s restaurants.

Enjoy!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/blog/calamity-raccoon-clawing-his-way-out-of-my-head

We have so many amazing, wonderful people to celebrate as Gauntlet Con rushes ever closer, so today we’re very…

We have so many amazing, wonderful people to celebrate as Gauntlet Con rushes ever closer, so today we’re very…

We have so many amazing, wonderful people to celebrate as Gauntlet Con rushes ever closer, so today we’re very delighted to say Misha B, Vivien Feasson, and Epidiah Ravachol will be joining us as guests at this year’s Gauntlet Con!!

Misha is a longtime gamer and GM working on raising the next generation of geeklings. She’s written for multiple games including Chill: SAVE, Lovecraftesque, and Dead Scare, and was an editor of the award winning #Feminism collection of nanogames. She blogs gaming inspired fiction at BlackGirlGameWorks.com, is one of the founders of New Agenda Publishing, and is a curator for More Seats at the Table. Her latest project is Orun.

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Vivien Feasson is a French game designer and a translator (Call of Cthulhu, Paranoïa, Spirit of the Century, etc.) who likes to theorize on games sometimes. He is behind the Edo-era chambara Les Errants d’Ukiyo but also the indie Lost in the Rain, a GM-shifting storygame where you play lost children that try to survive in the ghost of a city. Inspired by other local designers, he’s discovered that you could conceive several games based on the same universe, so he launched a crowdfunding operation for another try at his “rainyverse” with Libreté, a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game which was successfully published in 2017. Right now, he is trying to prepare the English translation of Libreté, publish a supplement with mechas, get his PhD, earn a living, raise his daughter, continue to play rpgs, and create an OSR version of Lost in the Rain.

During Gauntlet Con, Vivien will be running Libreté.

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Epidiah Ravachol is an author and game designer known for Dread, the horror roleplaying game that uses Jenga, and his fiction published in the sword and sorcery magazine Worlds Without Master. He resides in the Northeast of the United States of America with his wife and fellow game designer Emily Care Boss and their constellation of space wizards.

During Gauntlet Con, Epidiah will be running Wolfspell and Swords Without Master.

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Please check out the Gauntlet Con website for more information on our other fantastic guests! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Ya’ll, MeWe is garbage and I strongly recommend against it.

Ya’ll, MeWe is garbage and I strongly recommend against it.

Ya’ll, MeWe is garbage and I strongly recommend against it. This is the co-founder in my Twitter explaining how they are politically “neutral” and making the bogus “free speech” argument. If I need to explain why this a problem… that’s a problem.

G+ Shutting Down – Update #2: MeWe is Probably Garbage

G+ Shutting Down – Update #2: MeWe is Probably Garbage

G+ Shutting Down – Update #2: MeWe is Probably Garbage

Folks, we are going to just keep our powder dry for now vis-a-vis the G+ situation. MeWe is looking less and less like an attractive option. I’m not sure I can, in good conscience, recommend people start heading over there given it seems to be just stuffed with Nazis and their CEO is a free speech absolutist (translation: you can say whatever racist, Nazi shit you want and we won’t bat an eye). This is particularly the case since The Gauntlet so prizes diversity and inclusivity. Also: some of the people on G+ who are advocating the move to MeWe are people I hold in very low regard. I’m not putting anyone on blast (unless I need to) but suffice to say, MeWe is looking like some milkshake duck-ass shit and I think I’m done with it.

We have many months to get this figured out. And we will.

In case you needed another reason to back the Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter, it turns out we might need the operating…

In case you needed another reason to back the Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter, it turns out we might need the operating…

In case you needed another reason to back the Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter, it turns out we might need the operating funds gained from this project to build our own forums. So, what do you say? Let’s do this!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/codex-rpg-zine-volume-1-hardcover?ref=user_menu

Since G+ is gonna get shut down, I figured a goodbye gift of tons of Inktober prompts would be nice.

Since G+ is gonna get shut down, I figured a goodbye gift of tons of Inktober prompts would be nice.

Since G+ is gonna get shut down, I figured a goodbye gift of tons of Inktober prompts would be nice. I planned to put these out one by one through the month, but here’s an advanced sneak peek ;D I’ve only been in the G+ RPG scene for a few weeks, but I’ll 100% miss the particularity connectivity and community that’s been built into this network.

Do any of you know good alternatives for the RPG community after G+ is gone? Where else do you go?

If you wanna keep in touch for future stuff and collaborations, feel free out my socials or hmu!

Originally shared by Swords and Flowers

Since G+ has been decidedly shuttered in the future, I figure I would put up a goodbye gift full of Inktober RPG prompts I’ve been working on. Hope y’all get inspired by this in your games to throw at em’ some cool macguffins, locations, and items! 😀

If you’d like to keep in touch after this place closes, feel free to follow or reach out at my socials!

TWITTER @onerudeflowers

INSTAGRAM @onerudeflowers

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/OneRudeFlowers/

Kia ora~~!

Kia ora~~!

Kia ora~~! Just me again letting you know that we’re super excited to have Jim Dagg and Rach Shelkey as guests at this year’s Gauntlet Con!

Jim Dagg of Saddle Shaped Games is an indie RPG designer based in Dayton, Ohio. His work focuses on positivity and empowerment, and the hope that the right people in the right place can be the force for good we need. His previous work includes Just Got Real, a zero-prep game about action heroes, and Battle Princess (published as part of the charity anthology Two Weeks), a game starring adventurous young princesses who lead the realm and its citizens from the front.

During Gauntlet Con, Jim will be running Retrievers and Swords Without Master.

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Rach Shelkey is a game designer, writer and podcaster from Toronto. Her love of tabletop gaming comes from a lifelong fascination with experimental media and culture. You can hear her thoughts on gaming as a host of +1 Forward: A Podcast Powered by the Apocalypse. Rach is one of the organizers of Breakout Gaming Convention and her design work has been featured in The Sprawl: November Metric, Golden Sky Stories: Twilight Tales and Codex.

During Gauntlet Con, Rach will be running Golden Sky Stories.

For more information on registering and to check out our lovely guests, please visit the Gauntlet Con website! http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-con.html

Where is the Gauntlet going when/if G+ closes? I’m guessing this has been brought up already.

Where is the Gauntlet going when/if G+ closes? I’m guessing this has been brought up already.

Where is the Gauntlet going when/if G+ closes? I’m guessing this has been brought up already.

Gauntlet Play Aids folder – 100 games and counting

Gauntlet Play Aids folder – 100 games and counting

Gauntlet Play Aids folder – 100 games and counting

Hello everybody

Have you already heard that the Gauntlet Play Aids folder on Google Drive has passed the 100 games mark? Yes, that means we now have play aids for online play for so many games that you could play two different games a week for a whole year without repeating yourself.

Play Aids folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByS4_7KbXro_UjhDSEtNbm0zRUU

The Gauntlet Play Aids folder lives from your contributions. If you have something to be added, get in touch with me or Maria Rivera.

Below is the list of the latest entries. Thanks to Darren Brockes Horst Wurst Dylan Ross Christo Meid and Robert Nolan.