THE GAUNTLET - +1 Forward

5/10/2022

Scalability

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Rach and Rich bring back Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club to talk about scalability in PbtA games.

Timecodes:
0:04:32 - What's a Forever Game?
0:07:34 - Paul talks about Fellowship
0:29:27 - End Game in Improvements
0:30:09 - Improvements Never Taken
0:32:12 - Monsterhearts Season Changes
0:33:09 - Urban Shadows Scaling
0:34:01 - The MC has no stats!
0:34:38 - But there are So Many Moves
0:38:17 - Paul discusses non-advancement incentives
0:43:27 - Recs for PbtA games that scale well

Paul's deep dive on Fellowship can be found here: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/fellowship-close-to-great/

4/21/2022

Brindlewood Bay Kickstarter Special

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Jonah Knight from Roll to Meddle talks to Jason Cordova about Brindlewood Bay, coming to Kickstarter April 26th! Follow the Kickstarter campaign here!

4/18/2022

Burning Hearts Forever

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Rach and Rich bring on Eva Terra to talk about their game Burning Hearts Forever.

Timecodes:
0:02:14 - Read a Sitch about cool Moves!
0:07:16 - Open Your Brain to Burning Hearts Forever
0:14:11 - Act Under Fire with a final battle against the Tyrant!

Check out Burning Hearts Forever on Eva's itch store: https://worstgirleva.itch.io/

You can find Eva on Twitter: @WorstGirlEva

4/6/2022

The Real Thing RPG

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Rach and Rich bring on Jason Peercy and Jason Ward from Accidental Cyclops to talk about their simple and gritty RPG officially based on the music of Faith No More.

Timecodes:
0:01:47 - Read a Sitch about Using Music in Game Sessions
0:11:18 - Open Your Brain to The Real Thing
0:19:27 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Curtis in a very bad room

Check out the Kickstarter for The Real Thing here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonward/the-real-thing-rpg

You can find Accidental Cyclops here: https://www.accidentalcyclops.com/
or follow the game on Twitter @thingrpg
check out Games Mosingo's art here: http://mosingo.com/

3/21/2022

Improv for Gamers, 2nd edition

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Karen Twelves joins Rach and Rich to talk about her book currently on Gamefound - Improv for Gamers, 2nd edition!

Timecodes:
0:01:51 - Read a Sitch about Relationships in PbtA
0:09:14 - Open Your Brain to Improv for Gamers
0:22:58 - Act Under Fire with some Improv games!

Gamefound Info:
Gamefound preview page: https://tinyurl.com/IfG2ndEd
(give it a follow for some freebies!)
When it goes live on April 5, the campaign link will be https://gamefound.com/projects/evil-hat/improv-for-gamers

3/11/2022

Friendship, Effort, Victory

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Rich and Rach bring on Kamala Kara of Far Horizons Co-Op to talk about their shonen battle manga tabletop roleplaying game.

Timecodes:
0:01:20 - Read a Sitch about Telling Stories during Combat Scenes
0:05:51 - Open Your Brain to Friendship, Effort, Victory
0:18:35 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Curtis in the championship match

You can follow Kamara on Twitter @KamalaKaraA1
You can find FEV on the Far Horizon's itch page here:
https://far-horizons-co-op.itch.io/fev

2/23/2022

Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour

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Rach and Rich bring on Dusty De Leon of HellaBigWorks games to talk about their RPG about Small Town Heroics and Big Time Adventures.

Timecodes:
0:02:23 - Read a Sitch about Love Letters and Set Pieces
0:06:26 - Open Your Brain to Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour
0:15:16 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Lamar

You can find more of Dusty's stuff on their itch page: https://hellabigworks.itch.io/
Find Tendencies on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TendenciesG

1/30/2022

Great American Witch

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Rach and Rich bring on Christopher Grey to talk about his modern gothic RPG Great American Witch.

Timecodes:
0:02:02 - Read a Sitch about PbtA and Failure
0:08:25 - Open Your Brain to Great American Witch
0:19:33 - Act Under Fire with the witches Chantell and Plussy going clubbing

You can find more of Christopher's stuff here: https://christopher.world/

12/30/2021

Lessons Learned in 2021 and Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions

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Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2021, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2022.

Timecodes:
01:51 - Rich's Gaming Highlights
16:28 - Rach's Gaming Highlights
25:56 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2021
34:23 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2021
42:11 - Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions

12/26/2021

Take an Advance... on Masks A New Generation

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Rach and Rich bring on Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and podcaster and game designer Brandon Leon Gambetta to talk about ways to get the best out of a game of Masks A New Generation. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love.

Timecodes:
0:12:36 - Masks for players - Favorite Playbooks
0:21:54 - Some Great Basic Moves
0:29:09 - Masks thoughts for GMs
0:41:22 - Challenges to Consider when running Masks

Masks A New Generation can be found on Magpie's website here: https://magpiegames.com/pages/masks
Find cool Masks playbooks on itch here: https://itch.io/physical-games/tag-masks
The Masks fan Discord can be found here: https://discord.gg/Up8MBUe8

Misha: https://twitter.com/BGGameWorks
Brandon: https://twitter.com/bleongambetta