Tag: Jason Cordova

Did you know there is a tab on the Gauntlet Hangouts RSVP site called All Events Info? It is very handy because it allows you to more easily view all the different games on the calendar, as well as sort them in various ways, such as by title, date, event creator, and how full the games are. This makes finding sessions on Gauntlet Hangouts very easy.

https://gauntlet-hangouts.firebaseapp.com/all-events-info

The calendar is ferociously good right now. There are 231 sessions scheduled between now and the end of March (and there are more to come for February and March).

Check out the games being run:

Murderous Ghosts: Fluch des Mantikors (German language)

Bedlam Hall (multiple series)

Beyond the Wall: The Goblin Infestation

Beyond the Wall: The Lies of the Child Kingdom

Beyond the Wall: The Ruins of Future-Past

Beyond the Wall: The Traveling Circus

Blades in the Dark: Scum and Villainy

Bluebeard’s Bride (multiple series)

Breakers: Gauntlet City

Broken Worlds (Kill Six Billion Demons PbtA game)

Changeling: The Lost (PbtA)

Cold City

Cthulhu Dark: The Ruins of Davokar

Dungeon World: Legerdemain

Dungeon World: Song of the Shadow Court

Fall of Magic

Fiasco: Disputationem Maleficarum

Unknown Armies

Dude, Run

GMing Q&A (panel discussion)

Unmasked (Cypher system)

All of Their Strengths

Monsters and Other Childish Things

The Bat Hack

Godbound: Snapping the Soaring Eagle’s Threads

Hack the Planet

Headspace: Vancouver Aftermath

Hearts of Wulin

High Plains Samurai

Infinite Galaxies: Agents of Star Patrol

Into the Odd: House of the Tyrant

Into the Odd: The Full-Dark Stone

Into the Odd: The Moon is a Mirror

KARMA

Lord Scurlock

Magister Lor

Malandros

Maze Rats: Tomb of the Serpent Kings

Monsterhearts 2: Mercy Falls ’83

Monsterhearts 2: Mercy Falls 4

Murder Hobo

Mutant: Year Zero

Mystery Academy Masks

Night Witchs: TRUD GORNYAKA

Dungeon World: Bottled Fury

Red Carnations on a Black Grave (playtest)

Rhapsody of Blood: Red Moon Rising (playtest)

Cthulhu Dark: Confidential

World of Dungeons: Seclusium

Sea of Stars (playtest)

World of Shadows: Renraku Arcology (Shadowrun hack of WoDu)

Space Wurm vs Moonicorn

Strike!: D&D 4e 10th Anniversary Series

World of Shadows: Bug City (Shadowrun hack of WoDu)

Seco Creek Vigilance Committee

Crossroads Carnival (playtest)

Swords Without Master: Echoes

1%er: Swoop Gang

Apocalypse World: Tatooine

The Rebel Few

Gods of the Fall (Cypher system)

Pasión de las Pasiones

Predation (Cypher system)

Guards of Abashan (Action Cards)

Unknown Armies

The Black Hack: Gargoyles in the City

The Black Hack: Goblintown Below

The Final Girl: Shadow of the Groundhog

The Final Girl: The Cruise

Dungeon World: Horror on the Hill

The Sword, the Crown, and the Unspeakable Power

The Veil: Humanity Lost

The Veil: Synthesizers & Marigolds

Urban Shadows: The Dark Russian Soul

Urban Shadows: The Forsaken Metropolis

World of Dungeons: Ravenloft

Wield World: Shattered Destiny

World of Dungeons: Carcosa

World Wide Wrestling: Gage Valley Wrestling

If you’re not gaming with the Gauntlet, I don’t really know what else to say, honestly. It is just so good. And don’t forget: $7 Patreon subscribers get early access to RSVP to these events. We still have 6 of those spots available. There won’t be anymore until July 1st. Even if you only used your RSVP priority once or twice a month, it would be worth having (since you get a lot more than just RSVP priority for your Gauntlet subscription).

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

Come game with us!

We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the Miscellany in Codex – Blood 2. The Miscellany is called “Three-Dozen Direct to Video Horror Movies.” Entries can be any tone, from funny to weird to scary. Submissions do, however, need to follow this precise format:

NAME OF FILM (RELEASE YEAR). Summary: A short summary of what the movie is about, which should include the name and description of the killer. Best Kill: The goriest, funniest, or most ironic kill from the movie (please avoid rape-y stuff).

By submitting here, you’re agreeing to let us use it (you’ll get a credit on the issue). The purpose of the Miscellany is to inspire the reader.

Here are some examples:

SLAAAAY, QUEEN (2015). Summary: Ginger Vitus, a feral, vampire drag queen, is terrorizing the streets of New York City. Best Kill: Ginger kills a rival vamp by staking him in the heart with the heel of a size 13 stiletto pump.

SINFONIA (1991). Summary: A young cellist is invited to attend an elite, secretive music conservatory. Little does she know, the instructors are actually a cult dedicated to a dark, primordial god. They are gathering gifted musicians to put on a grand, ritualistic performance to summon this dark being into our world. Best Kill: A hypnotized violinist re-strings her bow with razor wire and then “plays” her neck to Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre.

RAINBOW BLIGHT (1989). Summary: A collection of toys from the 1980s have been brought to life in order to do the bidding of a dark sorcerer. The pack of murderous toys, led by Rainbow Blight, includes Hex-A-Sketch, Savage Patch Kid, and Deaddy Ruxpin. Best kill: In what can only be described as a commentary on the brain-dead consumer culture of the 1980s, Deaddy Ruxpin smashes a victim’s head into a large TV.

New Patreon Goal!

I’m excited to announce our next Patreon goal: a daily Gauntlet blog. When you look at everything that makes up the Gauntlet–our podcast network, Gauntlet Hangouts, Codex, our fantastic community resources–a blog sticks out as something we should have, but curiously do not. There are a few reasons why we never went the blog route, but most of them boil down to this: in the early days of the Gauntlet, we were a private club with no interest in communicating with anyone other than our members. Obviously, that began to change at a certain point, particularly when we began producing The Gauntlet Podcast.

Here are some reasons why a daily Gauntlet blog is a really exciting idea:

1) Our community is filled with people who have interesting ideas about roleplaying games. We’re a community of players, GMs, and game designers who are extremely active in the hobby. And unlike a lot of other outfits, we don’t just discuss our ideas, we test them out and put them into action. A daily blog will allow our awesome community of Gauntleteers to convey their ideas to a larger audience.

2) Piggybacking with the first point, blog posts are more shareable. At present, our discussions take place as either G+ posts, Slack discussion channels, or podcast conversations, none of which are easy to point to if someone asks about them. I have lost count of the number of times people have asked me to explain the CATS technique, Painting the Scene, my 7-3-1 GM prep, and many other things. Blog posts on these topics will help us disseminate this information more widely and more effectively.

3) There simply aren’t many blogs or sites that cover the specific areas we do. Certain topics, such as Powered by the Apocalypse games, emotional play, the intersection of traditional games and indie games, and much more, are wide open for us to make a mark.

4) A daily blog is an efficient way of giving a platform to creators from marginalized communities. Our podcasts, most of which have long lead times and a very specific content focus, have never been a great way of doing this.

So with all that said, we’re setting the daily blog as our $2,000 Patreon goal. In the meantime, if you have any ideas for what this blog should look like (or if you know of some great blogging resources), please let us know in the comments!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

I have been going back and forth for several weeks about whether I wanted to share this with the community or not. My instinct was to not share it, because it’s a personal thing, but ultimately I realized I had to, because to not do so would mean coming up with strange, improbable excuses for why my circumstances have changed so dramatically.

My partner of 5+ years and I are taking a break. I made the decision to move out of our apartment in NJ and, in the short term, until I can get things sorted out, I am staying with my folks in Oklahoma. This situation has put a lot of emotional and financial pressure on me, and the last month or so has been pretty chaotic. I am doing my best to figure everything out, to pick up the pieces of my life and move forward, but it’s probably going to take some time. I may not be as available as I always have been in the past. I will almost certainly have to cancel a few commitments I made for this year.

I appreciate the strange, sad irony that I have helped build a community that has caring, positive relationships at its core, but that I have been unable to salvage my own personal, romantic relationship. More than anything, I just feel incredibly isolated. Every day just feels so oppressively hollow. I put on my GM mask or my podcast mask, and everything is fine for a few hours, but then I go back to just feeling like a failure. And that’s the part I can’t shake, that sense of failure.

So anyway, this is where I’m at right now. It’s a tough time, but I’m dealing with it. Just an FYI to the community.

We’re looking for a new artist to work on the Gauntlet Daddies series in Codex. If you can draw sexy, muscular RPG men (or know someone who can), drop me a line at gauntletpodcast@gmail.com. This is a paid gig.

Thanks!

Twitter Contest – Win a copy of The Quiet Year

After the madness that was 2017, I’m hoping 2018 will be a little quieter. I’ve got a sinking feeling it won’t be, but a man can dream!

But here’s one thing I know for sure: if you follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG by January 31st, you could win a physical copy of Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year. On that day, we’ll draw one winner from our followers.

So go follow us on Twitter. And please re-share!