Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2E
Rich is joined by Jay Iles from UFO Press Introduction Jay's start with PbtA (00:42) Read a Sitch “Splitting the party” (02:52) Open Your Brain - Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2E Overview (07:53)...
View ArticlePorting the 'Pocalypse
Read a Sitch - Porting the Pocalypse Overview (00:47) The game is a conversation (03:45) Consequences to actions (05:05) Moves snowball (09:55) Countdown Clocks (13:06) Be a fan of the characters...
View ArticleImpulse Drive
Rich sits down with Adrian Thoen, author of Impulse Drive! Introduction Adrian’s start with PbtA games (00:22) Read a Sitch Improv play (02:00) Open Your Brain - Impulse Drive Overview (10:14)...
View ArticlePrinciples and Genre
Rich & Rach are talking about MC Principles. Timcodes (00:50) Principles (06:25) Genre and Urban Fantasy (28:31) GM Fiat? (30:37) Highlighting some particularly powerful Principles Links Our...
View ArticleBlackout: A Game of Civil Defence
Rich welcomes Erika Chappell of Newstand Press to talk about Blackout: A Game of Civil Defence! Introduction Erika’s start with AW (00:34) Read a Sitch Restarting a failed campaign (03:20) Open Your...
View ArticleProactive vs. Reactive MCing
Rach & Rich are talking about reactive MCing vs. proactive MCing. Timecodes Overview (00:36) “The game is a conversation” (04:03) The reactive position (07:47) The proactive position (12:43)...
View ArticleGauntlet Con 2017 - PbtA GMing Panel
For this special episode of +1 Forward, we present the audio from the "PbtA GMing" panel at Gauntlet Con 2017. The panel took place on October 21st. The participants were David LaFreniere, Lowell...
View ArticleAlphas 01 - Robot Cities, Circles of Power, Hydro Hackers
Rach speaks with Melissa Lewis-Gentry, Jason Pitre, and Phil Vecchione about their in-development games! Timecodes Robot Cities (00:44) Circles of Power (07:57) Hydro Hackers (18:39) Links Our website...
View ArticlePlaying the Apocalypse 01
Time Codes Question One: What sets being a player in PBTA apart from being a player in another system? Submitted by David LaFrenierre (01:51) Question Two: What strategies and practices do you employ...
View ArticleInfinite Galaxies
Rich welcomes Rory MacLeod to discuss his new game, Infinite Galaxies! Timecodes 2:17 - Read a Sitch - One-shot / Con GMing thoughts 7:49 - Open Your Brain - Infinite Galaxies 18:44 - Act Under Fire -...
View ArticleDead Scare
Rach talks with Elsa S. Henry about Dead Scare! Timecodes 00:57 - Read a Sitch - Accessibility for tabletop RPGs 08:02 - Open your Brain - Dead Scare 21:08 - Act Under Fire - Neighborhood Creation for...
View ArticleRoss Rifles
Timecodes: 01:53 - Read a Sitch 09:51 - Open Your Brain 23:48 - Act Under Fire Links for Patrick and Daniel: Twitter and Instagram: dundaswestgames Facebook: facebook.com/dundaswestgames Twitter,...
View ArticleCartel
Timecodes: 02:06 - Read a Sitch 10:52 - Open Your Brain 23:17 - Act Under Fire Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG
View ArticleLong Term Playing
Timecodes 00:00:29 - Overview of discussion 00:04:12 - Common advancements 00:23:07 - Switching playbooks 00:30:25 - Creating a second player character 00:38:52 - Playing safe vs playing risky Links...
View ArticlePlayer's Principles and Agenda
Agenda and Principles from existing games 04:49 - The Ward 09:38 - The Fellowship 17:46 - Dream Askew 21:15 - Impulse Drive 24:28 - Monster of the Week Plus One Forward's "Universal" Agenda 26:33 -...
View ArticleAlphas 02 - Death Knights, Atitlan Riders, Bullets in the Mountains
Timecodes 00:00:52 - Death Knights 00:09:38 - Atitlan Riders 00:21:17 - Bullets in the Mountains Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter...
View ArticleThe Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power
Time Codes 02:13 - Read a Sitch (coming back to the table after a hiatus) 12:51 - Open your Brain to SCUP 27:48 - Act Under Fire (Plussy the Voice) Link to the game:...
View ArticleDream Apart
Timecodes 1:40 - Read a Sitch 6:55 - Open Your Brain 16:35 - Act Under Fire Links Dream Askew // Dream Apart KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/averyalder/dream-askew-dream-apart Our website...
View ArticleMaking MC Moves
Timecodes 1:53 - What are Moves? 4:50 - Move Triggers 5:17 - Trigger 1: Failed PC Moves 7:38 - Trigger 2: The Players' Expectant Look 15:40 - Trigger 3: The Golden Opportunity 19:00 - Choosing Moves...
View ArticleVagabonds of Dyfed
Timecodes 2:21 - Read a Sitch 9:33 - Open your Brain 16:24 - Act Under Fire Links Our website www.gauntlet-rpg.com Our Patreon patreon.com/gauntlet Follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG
View ArticleCustom Moves Make the Game
Guest: Jen of Slugfest Games @halcycat on Twitter Timecodes: 1:33 - What are Custom Moves? 29:22 - Act Under Fire - Making a Custom Move exercise Links: The Story Games "Custom Moves make the game"...
View ArticleZombie World
Timecodes: 2:55 - Read a Sitch 16:50 - Open Your Brain 30:22 - Act Under Fire Links Zombie World Kickstarter...
View ArticlePlaying the Apocalypse (Part Two)
Another episode where Rach and Rich answer questions from listeners about playing PbtA games Time Codes: 1:06 - From James Mullen: if the Moves I've picked from a playbook turn out to be sub-optimal...
View ArticleBedlam Hall
Timecodes: 02:10 - Read a Sitch 07:33 - Open Your Brain 22:32 - Act Under Fire
View ArticleCodex Volume 1 Kickstarter Special
The Gauntlet Gaming Community, which produces this podcast, is launching its very first Kickstarter on October 2nd! We’re raising money to create a beautiful hardcover book collecting the first 13...
View ArticleWe Used to be Friends
Rach welcomes Jonathan Lavallee to the show! 01:16 - Read a Sitch... on collaborative play and shared GMing 11:23 - Open Your Brain... to We Used to be Friends, the ashcan version 24:27 - Act Under...
View ArticleNahual
Rich welcomes Mike Espinoza to discuss Nahual 01:51 - Read a Sitch playtesting miniseries games 08:37 - Open your Brain to Nahual 17:13 - Act Under Fire with Massuno the Perro Links Our website...
View ArticleThousand Arrows
Rach speaks with Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games! Timecodes 1:01 - Read a Sitch - MCing Hard Moves 6:21 - Open Your Brain to Thousand Arrows 15:24 - Act Under Fire with Hojo Ochiki Thousand Arrows...
View ArticleIronsworn
Timecodes: 03:07 - Read a Sitch about solo gaming! 12:58 - Open Your Brain to Ironsworn 31:20 - Act Under Fire... as Plussy tries to protect Gauntlet Village Links Purchase Ironsworn...
View ArticleAlphas 2018
Rach comes back from Metatopia 2018 with five stellar interviews with designers of PbtA games in alpha playtest. Timecodes: 04:56 - Taylor with Descent into Midnight 10:24 - Stentor with Get Ready to...
View ArticlePbtA and Settings
Rich and Rach discuss Apocalypse Engine Games and defined settings. Most PbtA games don't have them. Why is that? Is that a feature or a bug? Timecodes: 05:52 - Do Apocalypse Engine games need...
View ArticleMovie Night: Spider-Man and Masks
Rach and Rich introduce Movie Night, a new series where we pair a movie and a PbtA RPG and talk about how you can watch the movie and improve your experience with the game. Our first pairing is...
View ArticleUncanny Echoes
Rich sits down with Fraser Simons of Samjoko Publishing to talk about his PbtA game series of Supernatural Urban Fiction. Timecodes: 01:09 - Read a Sitch and learn about using one-shots to stitch...
View ArticleComrades
Timecodes 03:36 - Read a Sitch about Parallels between PbtA and Narrative Structure 10:22 - Open Your Brain to Comrades 22:03 - Act Under Fire with Athena Kickstarter Link...
View ArticleBite Me!
Time codes 01:28 - Read a Sitch about running PbtA as a One Shot 09:17 - Open Your Brain to Bite Me! 26:24 - Act Under Fire with pack creation Links Bite Me! Kickstarter...
View ArticleJinkies!
Time codes 2:49 - Read a Sitch and comedy and advancing plots 9:05 - Open Your Brain to Jinkies! 19:53 - Act Under Fire in a malt shop! Links Jinkies Kickstarter...
View ArticleThe Great American Novel
Timecodes 3:05 - Read a Sitch about Managing Spotlight 9:12 - Open Your Brain to The Great American Novel 23:18 - Act Under Fire for Mom's medicine in Colorado Links The Great American Novel KS...
View ArticleMysthea
Timecodes 2:41 - Read a Sitch about adapting licensed properties to PbtA 13:58 - Open Your Brain to Mysthea 30:12 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and the crystal lance Links Mysthea Kickstarter...
View ArticleCinematic Roleplaying
Timecodes 7:57 - Star Wars RPGs as a lens for PbtA 13:33 - Pacing 17:24 - Encouraging Buy-in from the group 27:24 - Epilogues 30:25 - When being cinematic might conflict with "the rules" of the game...
View ArticleFellowship 2nd Edition
Timecodes 01:34 - Read a Sitch about collaborative world building 10:40 - Open Your Brain to Fellowship 2nd edition 21:52 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and the Magnetic Forest Links Fellowship 2e...
View ArticleFor the Dungeon
Timecodes 01:11 - Read a Sitch about Saying Yes and Playing to Find Out 09:28 - Open Your Brain to For the Dungeon 14:18 - Act Under Fire with Plussy the Ork Invading a Castle Links For the Dungeon...
View ArticleHearts of Wulin Special
Jason Cordova is joined by Agatha Cheng and Lowell Francis to discuss Hearts of Wulin, coming to Kickstarter May 14th! Time Codes 10:33 - Talking Mechanics 14:27 - Combat 22:04 - Elements and Playbook...
View ArticleMonster of the Week: Tome of Mysteries
Timecodes 04:25 - Read a Sitch about non-PbtA games 15:11 - Open Your Brain to Tome of Mysteries 27:11- Act Under Fire with Plussy and his... kid sister?!?! Check out Steve Hickey's games:...
View ArticleHogwarts
Timecodes 03:18 - Read a Sitch on running mysteries in PbtA 14:08 - Open Your Brain to Hogwarts 27:02 - Act Under Fire with Curtis 45:34 - A peek at the Mystery system in action Check out the game and...
View ArticleDemigods
Timecodes 01:38 - Read a Sitch on deities in gaming 14:11 - Open Your Brain to Demigods 26:39 - Act Under Fire with Plussy AND Violet!!! Links Demigods is on Kickstarter now!...
View ArticleTurn
Timecodes: 01:23 - Read a Sitch about exploring gender in PbtA games 09:29 - Open Your Brain to Turn 20:28 - Act Under Fire with Logan Lassiter You can find Turn on Beau's Itch here:...
View ArticleKult: Divinity Lost
Timecodes: 02:35 - Read a Sitch about employing improv in games 12:30 - Open Your Brain to Kult 30:35 - Act Under Fire with The Driver You can purchase Kult: Divinity Lost from Drive Thru RPG here...
View ArticleDon't Pay the Ferryman
Timecodes: 01:49 - Read a Sitch about Interpreting Games with more Creativity 07:41 - Open Your Brain to Don't Pay the Ferryman 14:25 - Act Under Fire with Plussy the Ork Harlequin The cool ork...
View ArticleDisposable Heroes
Timecodes: 3:23 - Read a Sitch about running games for younger and older folks for their first time 11:40 - Open your Brain to Disposable Heroes 25:34 - Act Under Fire with some Disposable Heroes and...
View ArticleRoot
Timecodes: 02:17 - Read a Sitch about protagonization in PbtA games 10:53 - Open Your Brain to Root the RPG 29:40 - Act Under Fire with Zola the Fox Ranger KS Link:...
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