We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the miscellany in Codex – Moonlight.
We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the miscellany in Codex – Moonlight. The miscellany is called “Three Dozen Truths Revealed by the Light of the Moon.” Submissions need to be a single sentence, or 2-3 short sentences. By submitting here, you’re agreeing to let us use it (you’ll get a credit on the issue). We’re looking for evocative things; the purpose of the miscellany is to inspire the reader.
Here are some examples:
“By day, the waterfall on the Crystal River is a beautiful spot frequented by young couples. But in the light of the full moon, a shadow can be seen moving behind the cascade, following your movements in a menacing way.”
“The sandstone obelisk is a vestige of the tribe that used to populate these lands. By day, it is a curiosity. By night, a vibration coming from the center of it can be detected with specialist equipment, unless there is a full moon, in which case the obelisk, and everything within three-hundred yards of it, is eerily quiet.”
“Jean Livingston is an ordinary woman. She has an ordinary job, an ordinary car, and when she comes home at night, she spends time with her ordinary cat. Unless it’s the night of the anniversary of when her husband and children were brutally murdered, in which case she goes into the backyard to greet them, their forms silhouetted in moonlight, and begs them for forgiveness, which she never receives.”
(Thanks to the Slack crew for helping come up with this miscellany idea and to Cat Ramen for the first example above.)
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!
Are you going to Gen Con and want a free badge or at least a cool Magpie book? Awesome! We need Gms and you want cool things! This can work!
Magpie will be hosting its own selection of games at Gen Con and needs a few more volunteers to round out the awesome group we’ve got going. This is the last week to get your application in. So many great Gauntleteers are already joining us and I’d love to have more of you with us! This is such a fantastic community that I know will bring the very best play culture to Gen Con and that’s why, more than anything, I hope you join us for Gen Con and bring our safe, inclusive, and badass gaming to Gen Con.
When you run 2 sessions, you get a free book from the Magpie line up (your choice. When you run 4 session, you get a badge, a book, and a cool game accessory like dice or cards. When you run any session, I guarantee a high five/hug/subtle nod (your choice), I believe in you unicorn sticker, and my deepest thanks. Plus I’d get to see you and hang out with you!
Here’s the form. Please fill it out as soon as you can, as we have limited spaces and I want them to go to you folks! If you have questions, please feel free to ping me on here, on G-chat/hangouts, on Facebook, or on the slack. I’m around if you need me! Dreams to all of you wonderful folks!
I have this super-sad feeling in my heart right now. The Gauntlet is growing, which makes me happy, but as it does so, I feel more and more distant from the new people who are joining up. It used to be I had the time to at least join in a game with them or do little check-ins from time to time, but my bandwidth is basically tapped at this point. I’m super-lucky that folks like Lowell Francis and Kate Bullock have helped fill the leadership role, folks like Tomer Gurantz are welcoming/orienting people, and folks like Tyler Lominack are the new rockstar GMs, but I feel actual sadness that I can’t be the person anymore. It hasn’t been that long since the Gauntlet was just a small group of friends in Houston, you know?
I look on with amazement at all the cool games that are being organized on our Slack and on the calendar, listen to how excited the participants are, breaking down their sessions, talking about their upcoming games and projects, and just generally bonding… and I’m not a part of it. I know, to some degree, it’s my basic narcissism talking here. I have spent so much time being at the center of everything we do, it’s kind of terrifying to think it might work fine without me. But I am also genuinely bummed out that I don’t get to take part in these new stories and experiences. Everyone gets a little bit of me through the podcasts, but I can’t have a little bit of everyone, and that sucks.
I know this just sounds like unnecessary whining, but the folks who have been around for awhile know how important the personal connection is to me. They know how sad I am feeling right now.
(And if anyone is wondering where this sudden outburst of emotion is coming from, it’s because Sean Nittner joined our Slack, which got me thinking about Narrative Control, which got me thinking about the early days of the Gauntlet when Narrative Control was so important to shaping what we were doing.)
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.
Guess who forgot what day it was yesterday?! THIS GUY!
Guess who forgot what day it was yesterday?! THIS GUY!
But that’s okay! Because this isn’t a discussion of regrets, but a celebration of success! It’s time for SELF- STARS AND WISHES (and boi, we really need to come up a with a better name for this).
What did you achieve in the last week? What wins did you have? What are you proud of?
And what are you going to do? What are your goals? What matters to you in the coming few days?
I love all that Gauntlet does. I would really like to play and perhaps run games but haven’t had the chance yet. Are there Pacific time zone games as most of the sessions I’ve looked at are too early for me on weekdays?
The Chimaera (a podcast I’m a part of with another Gauntlet member JD) just put out our one-shot for Cartel. I just wanted to make a post here to encourage people to check out that game! It is an absolute blast to play and I hope to engage with it when it is completely done. If you want to check out the quickstart and such, here is a link to a pay-what-you-want type of situation:
I want to say a little bit about …And Then They Met, an original game in this month’s Codex.
I want to say a little bit about …And Then They Met, an original game in this month’s Codex. It’s a 2-player game by David Rothfeder about Lee and Sam, who are destined to fall in love. The game takes place entirely in the days leading up to the first time they lay eyes on each other. They each share some common elements in their lives, such as a bar they both frequent or a mutual acquaintance, and as they go about their day, they leave artifacts about their existence that the other one finds. So, for example, in the game I played, one of the characters asked the DJ at a bar to play some speed metal from his iPod Shuffle, and he accidentally left it there. The other character got his hands on the iPod and started to be intrigued about the person it belonged to based off the songs that were on it. The game has them circling each other, but always getting closer and closer, until the moment they first meet, at which point the game ends.
There are so many smart decisions in this game, such as the fact that you fill out questionnaires for Sam and Lee at the start of the game, but the questionnaires are asymmetical, which makes the characters different, but still alike enough you could imagine them falling in love. Also, the flow of the gameplay is really nice. The game has a lot of structure, but within that structure, there is a huge amount of space to play.
Overall, the game is just really sweet and really accessible. I was genuinely touched by the session I played, and it was exactly what I needed (having gone through a breakup recently and feeling really jaded on the idea of love).
Anyway, …And Then They Met is in Codex – Love 2, which is presently available in our $4+ Patreon feed (you also get the original Codex – Love as a bonus this month):
As someone who slowly transitioned from podcast listener, to G+ poster, and now the $6 a month Patreon support level just to get on the Gauntlet Slack, I don’t regret a penny.
If it is at all within your budget, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Good people, good friends, good discussions, and good support
