Rach and Rich hop on the mics to celebrate and maybe educate you on the ENnie awards. We've been nominated for 2022's Best Podcast category! This is a primer on what our show is about and the pair of hosts who make it happen.

Timecodes:
00:01:21 - What's a Plus One Forward?
00:02:54 - Who are your hosts?
00:06:12 - What do we talk about in this show?
00:07:17 - What's a summer series?
00:07:49 - A list of some ENnie-nominated games we've featured in previous episodes (links below)

VOTE FOR THE ENNIES HERE: https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2022/

Links to previous episodes about 2022 ENnie nominated games!
Kult: Divinity Lost. Nominated for Best Cartography. Featured in our episode from August 26, 2019: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/kult-divinity-lost

Root: The RPG. Nominated for Best Game; Best Supplement; Product of the Year. Featured in our episode from October 2, 2019: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/root

Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Nominated for Best Art, Cover; Best Art, Interior; Best Game; Product of the Year. Featured in our episode from February 11, 2020: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/thirsty-sword-lesbians

Wanderhome. Nominated for Best Art, Cover; Best Art, Interior; Best Family Game / Product. Featured in our episode from August 11, 2020. (part of the Belonging Outside Belonging Summer Series): https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/summer-series-bob-wanderhome

A Complicated Profession. Nominated for Best Electronic Book. Episode is next in our feed, so subscribe!!!

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This second episode features Takuma Okada, creator of ​Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern.

Timecodes:
00:01:21 - Setting Up
00:07:48 - The Challenge
00:14:30 - Playing the Game

You can find their games here: https://noroadhome.itch.io/

Rach and Rich kick off their third Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This first episode features Meguey and Vincent Baker, creators of ​Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands, the first Firebrands game.

(we even renamed the segments!)

Timecodes:
00:02:03 - Setting Up
00:13:14 - The Challenge
00:31:06 - Playing the Games

You can find their games here: https://lumpley.games/

Meguey's "talking to people" writing was found here: https://twitter.com/NightSkyGames/status/1425890164975575047

Rich and Rach are bringing you something altogether NEW!
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It's a miniseries of Actual Play, where they bring on guest players Cody and Greg to play Apocalypse World: Burned Over version. Rich is the MC for this three-session series, and after each session of play, we'll have a post-play discussion together.

Tune in for opening scenes and our first post-play discussion
Time Codes:
00:03:47 - Character Intros
00:08:11 - Starting Move with Druben Ki
00:12:19 - Kyrie's Opening Scene
00:25:13 - Bantha Bren's Opening Scene
00:33:42 - Druben Ki and Kyrie Meet Up
00:45:58 - Session Ending Stuff
00:52:19 - Post Game Show starts
00:54:20 - Slice-of-life Beginning Chat
01:03:35 - The Bang Approach Chat
01:12:16 - Untenable Lives
01:14:09 - Parting Thoughts

Greg Gelder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GroupSoliloquy
Cody Eastlick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyEastlick

Rich and Rach are bringing you something altogether NEW! 

It's a miniseries of Actual Play, where they bring on guest players Cody and Greg to play Apocalypse World: Burned Over version. Rich is the MC for this three-session series, and after each session of play, we'll have a post-play discussion together.

Tune in for the character introduction and Hx to kick things off.
Time Codes:
00:04:41 - Rach's character bio
00:06:05 - Cody's character bio
00:06:55 - Greg's character bio
00:08:23 - Druben's Hx
00:11:45 - Bantha Bren's Hx
00:15:49 - Kyrie's Hx

Greg Gelder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GroupSoliloquy
Cody Eastlick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyEastlick

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/

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

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/

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