Gauntlet Video Roundup - November 8, 2019

Greetings, and welcome to the weekly Gauntlet Hangouts video roundup! Enjoy these new recordings of online games organized through Gauntlet Hangouts and the Gauntlet RPG community. These recorded sessions represent only a portion of the wide selection of games available every week, and anyone is welcome to join in the fun! If you'd like to play in new games (or catch up on the back catalog of recordings), check the links at the end of the post.

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Special Events

Gauntlet TTRPG Chat
Lowell Francis facilitates for Dan, David Jay, Puckett, Robert Angus, and Steven Watkins
A meetup to discuss TTRPGs: advice, best practices, play, games you dig, scenario ideas, hacks, gaming online, running/playing mysteries, etc. Test balloon for an ongoing thing.

Star Wars Saturday

The Veil (Session 1 of 3)
Rich Rogers runs for Bethany H., Leandro Pondoc, Sabine V., and Walter German
At the end of the Empire, four Cyberpunks on Coruscant try to find safety and profit amid the chaos.

Gauntlet Comics

Monsterhearts 2: Super Juvie (Session 4 of 4)
Rich Rogers runs for Joe Zantek, Leandro Pondoc, and Misha B
The juvies escape New Guard Academy with a cult, and then things get weird?

Gauntlet Hangouts

Scum and Villainy: Radical Dreamers (Session 1 of 5)
Leandro Pondoc runs for Ludovico Alves, Rob Ruthven, and Sabine V.
Within the Isotropa Max Secure, premiere prison of the Galactic Hegemony, sits the crew of the Firedrake, a daring vessel committed to spreading the cause of a revolutionary dream within the Procyon Sector. But they're not sitting in prison for much longer. Kie walks like nothing can see him, Finn mixes music with explosions and Lei convinces their crewmates to basically be their best selves.

Root: Spies and Saboteurs (Session 1 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for Libby Horacek, Richard C., Rob Ruthven, and Toby
We meet our Vagabonds as they take a job to investigate an alleged revolutionary leader that is conning the denizens for their money...on behalf of a tax collector?!?

Afterlife: Wandering Souls (Session 1 of 4)
Ludovico Alves runs for David Walker, Leandro Pondoc, Pearl Zare, and Sabine V.
You are dead. But rejoice, for you have been found! Care not for what you left on the longship with the Boatman, your Pilgrimage through the Tenebris starts today! Through the grace of the six queens of the great nagiin civilization, you have been blessed, humans! Today starts a journey of an afterlifetime for a heretical loner, a hedonist gregarious "witch," an alluring and mysterious noble, and a beat cop too smart for his own good.

Primetime Adventures: Resistance (Session 1 of 5)
Donogh runs for David Morrison, Pawel S., and Pearl Zare
A short pilot to introduce our series after setup. Calais, May 1944. A large cell comprising Gaullists and Communists prepares the ground for the imminent Allied invasion of France. They must get a new contact into the city (Codename: Camargue), avoid the attention of Gestapo officer Wagner, while suspicions emerge about the commitment of one of their own...

Henshin!: Monster Hunter Science Force! GO!
David Walker runs for Kieron, Sabine V., and Will H
This is an actual play of Henshin! the Sentai RPG - Three new heroes arise to fight the Queen of Atlantis and her evil forces! Gifted strange mystical science powers by Professor T-Rex and Doctor Mollusc they ready themselves for the fight of their life - all while making sure they get to class on time!

Impulse Drive: Coriolis (Session 4)
Lowell Francis runs for Leandro Pondoc, Patrick Knowles, Sherri, and Steven desJardins
The group arrives on Mira and tries to get close to the Chelebs-Menau family by taking on a job for them hunting a mysterious animaturg called The Tailor, but one member of the crew decides to take the opportunity to break into the local HQ of The Order of the Pariah. Hijinks ensue.

Veil Fantasy (Session 1 of 6)
Lowell Francis runs for Alun R., David Morrison, Fraser Simons, and Leandro Pondoc
In this first session, we build our chaotic waterborne city, create characters, and delve into a sea of troubles in this fantasy hack of The Veil.

Monster of the Week: Pequosette in Winter (Session 1 of 4)
Jesse A. runs for Darold Ross, Hannah, and Jex Thomas
The characters do battle with a giant Landshark, while beginning to see what hides behind the curtain in the small New England town of Pequosette.

You can see all these videos (plus all the ones that have come before) on The Gauntlet YouTube channel playlists, and be sure to subscribe to catch all our great podcasts!

If you'd like to catch these sessions in an audio-only podcast, check out the community-run project at http://gauntlet.hellomouth.net/.

If you'd like to play in games like these, check out the calendar of events and the Gauntlet Forums where games are announced.

To support The Gauntlet, please visit the Gauntlet Patreon. Everyone is welcome to sign up for Gauntlet Hangouts games, but Patreon supporters get extra options like priority RSVP for Gauntlet Hangouts games and joining the Gauntlet Slack team where special events and pickup games are announced. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!