Jason Cordova – Page 158 – The Gauntlet G+ Archives

Here are the remaining events for this summer, since I know some of you have trouble with Google’s (horrible) Event…

Here are the remaining events for this summer, since I know some of you have trouble with Google’s (horrible) Event system:

08.01.14 – Carcosa (Session 2)

08.03.14 – Story Game Sunday – Society of Dreamers

08.04.14 – Board Game Monday – Eldritch Horror

08.06.14 – Wednesday One-Shots – Questlandia

08.07.14 – Thursday Hangouts – tremulus (Sign-up week)

08.08.14 – Carcosa (Session 3)

08.10.14 – Story Game Sunday – Kagematsu

08.11.14 – Board Game Monday – Game TBD

08.13.14 – Wednesday One-Shots – Games TBD

08.15.14 – Carcosa (Session 4)

08.17.14 – Story Game Sunday – Solipsist

08.22.14 – The Gauntlet Anthology – Dungeon World

08.24.14 – Story Game Sunday – Lasers & Feelings

08.29.14 – The Gauntlet Anthology- Dungeon World

08.31.14 – Story Game Sunday – The Death of the Gilded Age

I’m pinning this post to the top of the page. I will update it as things are settled on. If you see a blank and have something you want to run, just let me know and we’ll see if we can fit it in.

We have two Story Game Sunday dates to fill in August – the 10th and the 17th.

We have two Story Game Sunday dates to fill in August – the 10th and the 17th. Does anyone have something they want to run?

For Board Game Monday, we played Space Alert.

For Board Game Monday, we played Space Alert. It was pretty freaking cool (and a little stressful). It felt like we were starting to get pretty good at it, but I think we managed to luck out a little at the end by drawing some easy enemy vessels. Nice production value, and a good variety of dangers and scenarios. The audio soundtrack is an inspired touch. Great stuff, all in all.

Thanks to Rob Ferguson Daniel Fowler Ferrell Riley and Paul Mata for coming out!

Today we played cyberpunk game Remember Tomorrow.

Today we played cyberpunk game Remember Tomorrow. It is, ideally, a 3 or 4 player game (we had 6) but we still had a great time with it. I’d definitely play it again.

Thanks to Daniel Lewis for organizging, and Aaron Scott Ferrell Riley Rob Ferguson and Isaac Martinez for coming out!

Last night we played a very special game of Dungeon World.

Last night we played a very special game of Dungeon World. Since it was Rob’s last Friday night with us, and since he always clutches his pearls whenever Carcosa comes-up in conversation, I decided to resurrect one of my favorite NPC villains. I won’t go into the details of Gormakir the Cruel’s dark magic (especially since it would probably get us put on a watch list) but everyone had a squeamish good time.

Thanks to Rob Ferguson Ferrell Riley Jacob Densford Nicolette Khan Gary Wilson and Steven McGinley for coming out.

As some of you may know, Rob Ferguson is leaving us soon to make his fortune in the dark and mysterious Orient.

As some of you may know, Rob Ferguson is leaving us soon to make his fortune in the dark and mysterious Orient. I was surprised when he told me this. Here is how the conversation went:

Rob: Will you look into the mirror?

Jason: What will I see?

Rob: Even the wisest cannot tell. For the mirror…shows many things…things that were…things that are…and some things…that have not yet come to pass.

Jason: Umm, I don’t see anything.

Rob: I know what it is you saw, for it is also in my mind. It is what will come to pass if you should fail. It has already begun. She will come to take the Gauntlet. You know of whom I speak.

Jason: I mean, I can just give you the Gauntlet, if that’s what you want.

Rob: You offer it to me freely? I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this.

(At this point, Rob begins to glow and starts shouting).

Rob: In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! With gams stronger than the foundations of the earth! All will love me and despair!

(Rob stops glowing and catches his breath).

Jason: Are you done?

Rob: I pass the test. I will diminish and go into the East, and remain Rob Ferguson.

Jason: I really don’t want to manage this thing by myself, though.

Rob: You are the Gauntlet bearer, Jason. To bear the Gauntlet is to be alone. This task was appointed to you, and if you do not find a way, no one will.

Jason: It just seems like so much trouble. I don’t think I can do it.

Rob (leaning-in and placing his hands on my face in a motherly way): Even people with the smallest gams can change the future.

So, after the game last night, we got talking about Rifts.

So, after the game last night, we got talking about Rifts. Now, that is quite possibly one of the worst rule systems ever devised. It is also one of the most problematic settings in terms of cultural stereotyping.

That said, I kind of want to play it again (just a session or two). Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking (I used to mainline Rifts in high school), but I’d be curious to dust it off and see if anything can be done with it.

Maybe a fast and dirty PbtA version, a la World of Dungeons?