I name them Keepers of the Gauntlet!

I name them Keepers of the Gauntlet!

I name them Keepers of the Gauntlet!

I would like to thank our newest Patreon supporters and name them Keepers of the Gauntlet!

Mikel Matthews, Keeper of the Scarification Blades

Josh Riggins, Keeper of the Star Bears of Kazarak

Charles Gatz, Keeper of the Last Words of the Drowned Men

Josh Mannon, Keeper of the Twisted Teeth of Garthuul

Christopher Grey, Keeper of the Lies of the Child Kingdom

Joshua Faller, Keeper of the Shrine of Melchior

Samuel Slocum, Keeper of the House Without Doors

Ian Crockett, Keeper of the God-King’s Viscera

Colin Matter, Keeper of the Labyrinth Beneath the Sands

Steve Moore, Keeper of the Final Syllable, Which Must Not Be Uttered

Ill Conceived Notions, Keeper of the Wanderer’s Prison

Tom Davies, Keeper of the Glossary of Blades

Anthony Thomas, Keeper of the Alabaster Heart of the Gnome King

Noah Scanlon, Keeper of the Leonine Sun

Jason Tocci, Keeper of the Thirteen Spears of Num-Hei

Joshua, Keeper of the Purified Liquids of the Golden Mule

Ken Napper, Keeper of the Chambers of Gentle Understanding

Todd Estabrook, Keeper of the Sacred Bees and the Honey of Salvation

Sophia Brandt, Keeper of the Dying Heart

Douglas Mota, Keeper of the Word that Binds and Blinds

Rowdy Scarlett, Keeper of the Bones of the Grey Rangers

John Fiala, Keeper of the Rainbow Shores

Robert Quintero, Keeper of the Library of Eidoloss

Mike Carlson, Keeper of the Obsidian Forests of Yend

Philippe, Keeper of the Sentry Pines

Manu Marron, Keeper of the Automata Philosophica

Greg Soper, Keeper of the Mother’s Kiss

Matthieu Braboszcz, Keeper of the Mossy Robes of the Green Monk

Matthew Egger, Keeper of the White Bats of Good Queen Jedra

Lyndon Baugh, Keeper of the Trial of the Second Birth

David Lewis, Keeper of the Titan’s Skull

Joshua Jarrett, Keeper of the Child Who is a Nest for Spiders

savageslacker, Keeper of the Seven False Smiles

Ben Kramer, Keeper of the Book of False Rituals

David Bowers, Keeper of the Rootless Forest

Spencer Isdahl, Keeper of the Steel Blessing of Ares

Mathias Belger, Keeper of the Spectral Hounds

Davide Pignedoli, Keeper of the Magister’s Chain

Kyle, Keeper of the Forty-Four Shrines

Dwayne Summerfield, Keeper of Azurix, the Blue Dust Planet

Matt, Keeper of the Thirty Virginal Plum Trees

Jools Thomas, Keeper of the Charter of the Knights Panoptic

Ross Peterman, Keeper of the Resonant Heartstones

Kirt, Keeper of the Voidbeaver Idol

Johannes Rassmussen, Keeper of the Nine-Fold Edge

Spencer Paskett, Keeper of the Flask of Sorrows

Matthew Doughty, Keeper of the Well of Immaculate Blood

Paul Strawser, Keeper of Unclaimed Souls

Stephen Karnes, Keeper of the Hare Skull and the Blue Candle

Tim Dreier, Keeper of the Bone Crown of Old King Smule

Mendel Schmiedekamp, Keeper of Grandmother Bleakwood’s Recipe Box

Dan Behlings, Keeper of the Iridescent Ungulates

John Willson, Keeper of the Grey Rings of Hrathnem

Kurt Klassen, Keeper of the Everlasting Wound

Blake Ryan, Keeper of Those Who Feel the Harrowing Eternity

Matt Kay, Keeper of the Refined Rose Dust of Daar Angúl

Tyler Oden, Keeper of the Blessed Venom Sacs

Noah Ban, Keeper of the Maze of Unending Pleasure

Samuel Sarjant, Keeper of the Devil’s Decoction

Steven desJardins, Keeper of the Black Between the Stars

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Codex – Madness is now available for free on our website!

Codex – Madness is now available for free on our website!

Codex – Madness is now available for free on our website! It contains a Dungeon World starter, two original games, a Cheat Your Own Adventure scenario and more! If you haven’t taken the ($4) plunge on Codex yet, Madness is a great place to get started!

Please re-share!

(Cover illustration by Claudia Cangini)

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/codex.html

I was pleased to get a chance to play Hannah Shaffer’s Damn the Man, Save the Music!

I was pleased to get a chance to play Hannah Shaffer’s Damn the Man, Save the Music!

I was pleased to get a chance to play Hannah Shaffer’s Damn the Man, Save the Music! on Gauntlet Hangouts a couple of weeks ago. This is a really fun game that delivers on its premise of a group of 90s-era record store employees trying to save their shop from a corporate takeover.

Thanks to Evan Rowland for running the game, and to my fellow players David LaFreniere and Dylan Ross!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzZyVoEEXMs

Is anyone in the community going to be at DexCon this year?

Is anyone in the community going to be at DexCon this year?

Is anyone in the community going to be at DexCon this year? David LaFreniere and I will be there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If you’re a fan of Discern Realities and want to hang out, let us know!

Children of the Eight-Legged She (Session 2 of 4)

Children of the Eight-Legged She (Session 2 of 4)

Children of the Eight-Legged She (Session 2 of 4)

Here is a link to Session 2 of Children of the Eight-Legged She, the second series in our We Hunt the Keepers! Dungeon World campaign. In this one, the party is making their way to the lodge of the Grey Rangers (yes, I totally stole that from Fall of Magic) and along the way get wrapped-up in a couple of mysteries, including a young boy who is of interest to the spider goddess Malgoliant and the disappearance of the mage Brandon Barkbender. The Grey Rangers themselves are incredibly weird and secretive, which adds a few more pieces to what is becoming a very complex puzzle.

Thanks to my players for a terrific session: David LaFreniere Gerrit Reininghaus Fraser Simons and steven watkins.

You can find the entire We Hunt the Keepers! campaign here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL26DVDSsqVz6VlgBJpGA6qp7wCb2OydB7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5R3nnpNfNk&list=PL26DVDSsqVz6VlgBJpGA6qp7wCb2OydB7&index=6

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

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

We’d like to do some crowdsourcing for the Miscellany in Codex – Neon. The Miscellany is called “Three-dozen neon-lit establishments.” 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.

A variety of settings work for this miscellany, from cyberpunk to noir to modern day. Importantly, we want each of these neon-lit businesses to have a name plus a short description of what you can purchase there and/or a short description of the joint’s proprietor or its history.

Here are some examples:

“The Purple Lotus, a VR retroscape lounge depicting a jazz club in 1920’s New Orleans. Its proprietor is Selma Dubois, one of the City’s legendary “feelgood” chemical hackers.”

“The world-famous Silver Boxcar diner, which is open 24 hours and has only closed once in the last fifty years: Christmas Day, 1963, when the original owner, Martin Peele, was gunned down by his two adult children.”

“Big Happy Donut, a Los Angeles original, family-friendly by day, a favorite hangout for hustlers and pornographers at night. Try the apple fritters.”

(Photo by Masashi Wakui)

In this week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast, Lowell Francis interviews one of my favorite people in the hobby,…

In this week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast, Lowell Francis interviews one of my favorite people in the hobby,…

In this week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast, Lowell Francis interviews one of my favorite people in the hobby, Pamela Alexander from Evil Hat! The conversation is focused on the new Dresden Files Accelerated game, and includes a lot of discussion about the goals and challenges of putting it together, and how the Accelerated edition differs from the original Dresden RPG.

You can pick up DFA here:

http://www.evilhat.com/home/dresden-files-accelerated/

Enjoy!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-gauntlet-podcast/episode-103-dresden-files-accelerated-with-pam-alexander

It’s the penultimate episode of our Monster of the Week AP for Comic Strip AP!

It’s the penultimate episode of our Monster of the Week AP for Comic Strip AP!

It’s the penultimate episode of our Monster of the Week AP for Comic Strip AP! Tom McGrenery’s Robert Larousse is ready to make his move against Vassago and the Lombardi School, but how will he react when he learns his most dangerous enemy has yet to reveal herself?

This one’s pretty exciting!

Enjoy!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/comic-strip-ap/monster-of-the-week-the-lombardi-school-14

David and I have chosen the winner of the Discern Realities Shrine Contest (to be announced later) but we can’t…

David and I have chosen the winner of the Discern Realities Shrine Contest (to be announced later) but we can’t…

David and I have chosen the winner of the Discern Realities Shrine Contest (to be announced later) but we can’t decide on the runners up and so we need your help!

My remaining finalists can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByS4_7KbXro_aHpUNFd2MV9MN0k

Read through them and cast a vote for your favorite on this poll by Friday, June 16th at 11:59 PM EDT. The entry with the most votes will be named a runner up in the Shrine Contest. The entry’s author will receive a $20 gift card to DriveThru and be invited to co-host an episode of Discern Realities.

David and I recorded a special episode of Discern Realities where we briefly discussed what we liked about these entries. That episode can be found here:

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/discern-realities/special-episode-the-shrine-contest-finalists

If one of your entries is listed here, please do not talk about it or otherwise engage in any kind of campaigning throughout the community. Let’s keep it anonymous!