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I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine…

I recently ran three sessions called “World of Dungeons: Into the Fire,” part of my new Wednesday Time Machine signature series on Gauntlet Hangouts. The idea was to run through one of the adventures in the very first issue of Dungeon Magazine using World of Dungeons. We ended up enjoying these sessions so much, we have actually extended the series for two more sessions in December (off-calendar).

The videos to these first three sessions are linked below. Here are a few reasons why you might be interested in checking them out:

1) This is really terrific WoDu play. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me about how I run WoDu (a result of Fear of a Black Dragon, no doubt), and this is a pretty terrific example of how I use the system.

2) The story is just really fucking good. We started with the module as our foundation, but using establishing questions and a whole lot of collaborative fiction, we ended up with something far more interesting. It starts off with the basic “getting to know you/traveling through the wilderness” stuff that most of my adventures start with, but once we get to Fort Silam, it becomes this dark, fascinating tale about nightmares and regret.

3) The players here do a great job extrapolating out from the simple character classes in WoDu. One of the things I love about the game is that because it has such a sturdy mechanical foundation, you can build all kinds of custom stuff on top of it, and many of the players really embrace that aspect of the game to make their characters unique.

4) I manage to claim a few tears for my collection! I have lately been really interested in emotional play, and getting the players misty-eyed in the middle of the session is a major priority. We get a lot of emotion around the middle of the third session (which was probably one of my favorite sessions this year).

Session 1 is linked below.

Session 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKd626ozbg&feature=youtu.be&a=

Session 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZI5zoa0Vk0&feature=youtu.be&a=

Thanks to the players for bringing it: Jennifer Erixon Fraser Simons Kyle Hodnett and Matthew Doughty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5SZQIQWrg&feature=youtu.be&a

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! For this classic American holiday, Tom McGrenery and I present an episode of FoaBD about a classic American module. No single module or adventure has probably been covered as much as The Keep on the Borderlands, but Tom and I have, as always, managed to put our distinctive FoaBD spin on things.

Enjoy!

Cc: Johnstone Metzger for Nightmares Underneath discussion near the end.

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/the-keep-on-the-borderlands

Not RPG-related, but we’re heading into a very tricky time of year for a lot of people, particularly queer people.

Not RPG-related, but we’re heading into a very tricky time of year for a lot of people, particularly queer people. For a lot of folks, the holidays are a really fraught and melancholy time, because while the rest of the country is traveling and making merry, they are being reminded of their outsider status among their family, or are desperately summoning the strength to deal with arguments and other bullshit. And, honestly, Trump is just going to make that worse for a lot of folks (non-queer people: that frustration you feel with your Trump-supporting family at Thanksgiving is a little taste of what a lot of queer people have had to put up with for most of their lives; welcome to the party).

Anyway, I’m posting here to let those folks know: I see you and I’m happy to chat privately over the next couple of days if you need it.

We have a special episode of The Gauntlet Podcast for you today.

We have a special episode of The Gauntlet Podcast for you today. This is the audio from the “Being a Great Player” panel at Gauntlet Con 2017. The panel featured Yoshi Creelman Auzumel Srsly and Patrick Knowles, and it was excellent. So much great insight, so much terrific advice, and particularly enjoyable because the RPG discussion-sphere tends to focus on how to be a great GM.

Enjoy!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-gauntlet-podcast/gauntlet-con-2017-being-a-great-player-panel

Help us choose an upcoming Codex theme!

Help us choose an upcoming Codex theme!

Cast a vote below for an upcoming Codex theme. Here is a list of the current issues, both finished and in-production:

Blood

Chrome

Ectoplasm

Starlight

Dark

Love

Yellow

Iron

Madness

Time

Neon

Crystal

Joy

Decay

Beasts

Hell (in production)

Lies (in production)

Blood 2 (in production)

Cold (in production)

Love 2 (in production)

On our Slack right now, a conversation about “the nerdiest thing you ever participated in” is taking place, as if…

On our Slack right now, a conversation about “the nerdiest thing you ever participated in” is taking place, as if the answer is not “the Gauntlet Slack.”

If you’re a Gauntleteer and go to a Double Exposure convention, there is a really strong chance Dylan Ross will put…

If you’re a Gauntleteer and go to a Double Exposure convention, there is a really strong chance Dylan Ross will put a small medical tube in your hand, and that tube will have a whole roleplaying game in it!

Last year we got John Harper’s Lasers and Feelings. This year it was Cheat Your Own Adventure!

So cool!

Episode 3 of Monsterhearts: Return to Mercy Falls is here!

At the top of this one, I talk about “polling the table,” a spotlight management technique I have used for a long time. In the actual gameplay, it’s back to homeroom for the kids and the return of a very menacing figure.

A reminder that our $2 Patreon supporters get early access to the entire series.

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

Enjoy!

Cc: Fraser Simons Lowell Francis Phillip Wessels Yoshi Creelman Kevin Lovecraft

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pocket-sized-play/monsterhearts-return-to-mercy-falls-03

You should be participating in Gauntlet Hangouts. Like, seriously.

You should be participating in Gauntlet Hangouts. Like, seriously.

RPG podcasts are awesome, and I think ours are some of the best. RPG zines are great fun, and Codex is absolutely killer. But the crown jewel of the Gauntlet experience is Gauntlet Hangouts. There are presently 115 sessions on the Gauntlet Hangouts calendar through January, spread out over 45 different game events. There will be many more added before the year is up, and I’d wager just a handful will not fill to capacity.

This is not some accident. Gauntlet Hangouts is growing because our play culture is top notch. Imagine going to a convention where the players and GMs always give 100%, where aftercare and good citizenship is practically fetishized, and where the variety of games available to play is downright dazzling.

Now imagine that same convention never ends.

It’s a space where folks are serious about playing games, but equally serious about taking care of one another. I think it’s pretty special, and a lot of other people do, too.

Check out the present game line-up:

7th Sea: Khitai

Monsterhearts 2: Mercy Falls

The ‘Hood

My Life With Master

Blades in the Dark

Chaos Monks: Mountains of the Moon

The Final Girl

The Watch

Masks: Return to Atom City

The Veil: Cascade

Prime (Shadowrun hack of The Sprawl)

Star Wars World

Rolemaster

Dungeon World: Ten Hidden Keys

Dungeon World: Escape on the High Seas

Crossroads Carnival

Spirit of ’77

Mutant: Year Zero

Lord Scurlock

World of Dungeons: Ravenloft

Star Trek Adventures

Bedlam Hall

Mega-Damage! Dog Dudes of the Alamo (play test)

Karma in the Dark (Shadowrun BitD hack; play test)

Fiasco: The Beast of Sucker Creek

Apocalypse World: Fallen Empires West

carry. a game about war

Breakers: Gauntlet City

Public Access (play test)

Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne

Dungeon World: The High Seas Before the Storm

Neo Shinobi Vendetta (Fate)

World of Dungeons: Seclusium

1%er: Swoop Gang

Cold City

Mystery Academy (Masks)

Dragons & Travellers’ Tales (play test)

Bluebeard’s Bride

Dungeon World: Horror on the Hill

Seco Creek Vigilance Committee

Unknown Armies

Pack of Strays

Monsterhearts; Mercy Falls ’83

Truth or Daring

Join us for a game! You can view the entire schedule right here:

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

(Pro tip: You can view the events in calendar form or table form by clicking the tabs up top.)

If you like what you see, consider joining our Patreon at the $7 level. Folks at that level get 1 week of RSVP priority on all new events. We will be making more $7 spots available on November 30th, 2017.

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

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We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the Miscellany in Codex – Hell.

We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the Miscellany in Codex – Hell. The Miscellany is called “Three-dozen demons and how to bind them.” Submissions need to be a single sentence, or 2-3 very 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 stuff. The purpose of the Miscellany is to inspire the reader.

Your demon needs three pieces of information: 1) a proper name or nickname; 2) what they are known for; and 3) how to bind them to your service. The tone for these entries can range from humorous to dark.

Here are some examples:

“Lingus, the Everlasting Tongue, a demon of low sensuality. To bind it to your service, put your tongue into thirty-three different holes, reciting the Lord’s Prayer each time you do so.”

“Madame Bogwallow, who appears as a sickly-yellow batrachian the size of a large dog. She is known to reside in the deepest, darkest parts of the swamp, and if you bring her a beautiful blonde child for her supper, she will cure you of any ailment.”

“Kazzgulran, a demon scholar whose studies focus on the secrets of aristocratic human families. He knows where all the bodies are buried and will share this information with you, but only if you speak his name one-hundred times in a summoning circle drawn from sage ash and make an offering of a canary in a silver cage.”