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 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Masks: A New Generation.

Time Codes
4:42 - a spoiler-free summary of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8:33 - a spoilerific summary of Masks: A New Generation
11:28 - SPOILER WARNING and a look at Playbooks in the movie
19:54 - a few of our favorite scenes from Spider-Verse as they might play in a Masks session

* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is in theaters as of this show's publication, go see it!
* You can purchase the Awesome Masks bundle here (affiliate link):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261677/Masks-A-New-Generation-BUNDLE?affiliate_id=78493

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 settings?
13:35 - Discussing some PbtA games with strong settings baked in
30:14 - Challenges with MCing defined settings and how to deal with them

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 Rock
15:52 - Iris with Dream of the Empress
22:23 - Sam with Passing
27:07 - Hamish with Codename Mindblock

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

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

Links
Thousand Arrows Kickstarter

Timecodes
01:51 - Read a Sitch playtesting miniseries games
08:37 - Open your Brain to Nahual
17:13 - Act Under Fire with Massuno the Perro

Link
Nahual Kickstarter

Rach welcomes Jonathan Lavallee to the show!

Timecodes
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 Fire... with Rach and Jonathan playing a scene of We Used to be Friends

Links
Purchase We Used to be Friends
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​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 issues of our zine, Codex. This special podcast episode features Lowell Francis and Jason Cordova discussing the history and development of the zine, the Kickstarter campaign, and the future of The Gauntlet community. It’s a fantastic conversation. Enjoy! 

Rich sits down with David K. from Monkeyfun Studio to discuss Bedlam Hall!

Timecodes
02:10 - Read a Sitch
07:33 - Open Your Brain
22:32 - Act Under Fire

Links
Purchase Bedlam Hall

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 for where the story is going, what should I do? Stick with them, ask the MC if I can select new Moves or ask the MC to shift the story so that I can use the Moves I've picked?
8:22 - From David LaFreniere: How should players best facilitate their characters interacting in a hostile way? Follow up, how can the MC help facilitate or, if the game situation/system seems appropriate, encourage players to have their characters engage in hostile ways?
18:20 - From Marc-Alexandre Dube - What materials could the player use to easily organize the information about the character. PbtA abstracts a lot of things, but most moves from most playbooks are a case of "specific over general". Which mean (you'd need to) memorize all the chosen playbook moves on top of the general moves (and the special moves).
27:41 - Marshall Miller asked several questions!
28:03 - What are the best PbtA games for kids?
30:07 - Which are the best PbtA games for PbF?
33:10 - What's the best PbtA game for  1 player + 1 MC?
39:41 - What's the best PbtA game for a large group (e.g. 8+)?