Episode 6 of Discern Realties is here!

Episode 6 of Discern Realties is here!

Episode 6 of Discern Realties is here! 

Originally shared by David LaFreniere

DR Ep 6 is out today!

What Happened Here Recently? (00:28)

Letting another player use your character

What Should I Be On the Lookout For?(7:00)

Jason Lutes The Perilous Wilds

What Here is Not What It Appears to Be? (13:57)

Unarmed combat

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (20:25)

The Keepers of the Unquiet Dead

What is About to Happen? (25:00)

The ongoing adventures of Ramshackle Crow

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-6

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is here! Enjoy!

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is here! Enjoy!

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is here! Enjoy!

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Episode 5 of Discern Realities is out today! Here is a breakdown:

What Happened Here Recently? (00:31)

Using Microscope to involve your players in world creation

What Should I Be On the Lookout For? (6:43)

Take On Establishments

[http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/107759/Take-on-Establishments]

Take On Games

[http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/106849/Take-on-Magic-Items]

What Here is Not What It Appears to Be? (14:21)

Undertake a Perilous Journey

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (20:50)

Custom Move – Visions of Death

What is About to Happen? (25:30)

Our ongoing comic strip ‘AP’ following the adventures of Ramshackle Crow

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-5

This week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast is focused on Dungeon World.

This week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast is focused on Dungeon World.

This week’s episode of The Gauntlet Podcast is focused on Dungeon World. 

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Episode 39 of The Gauntlet Podcast is here! We are reviving a segment from one of Rich’s old shows called Game Advocates. I agreed to be the first person up, advocating for Dungeon World in this episode. We have also made the first segment less sprawling. Feedback is welcome for both segments. 

Here is a breakdown:

Games We Played

Creepy Doll Studios’s Bath Salts (00:23)

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/118449/Bath-Salts

Gregor Hutton’s Remember Tomorrow (07:30)

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/81526/Remember-Tomorrow?term=remember+to

Giving Me Life

Downsizing (19:00)

Comic Strip AP (22:57)

Main Topic – Dungeon World Advocate (26:59)

http://gauntletpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-39-game-advocates-dungeon-world

Episode 4 of our little Dungeon World podcast was released this morning. Enjoy!

Episode 4 of our little Dungeon World podcast was released this morning. Enjoy!

Episode 4 of our little Dungeon World podcast was released this morning. Enjoy!

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Episode 4 of Discern Realities was released today! Here is a breakdown: 

What Happened Here Recently (00:20)

A tragic romance in the Castle of the Dreaming Doors.

What Should I Be On the Lookout For? (06:57)

Johnstone Metzger’s Terrors of the Ancient World and Wizard-Spawned Insanities

What Here is Not What it Appears to Be? (10:50)

Player versus player conflict (with a quick shout-out to Urban Shadows by Andrew Medeiros). 

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (18:33)

Osmun the Unsourceable and Nemrath’s Almanac.

What is About to Happen? (24:06)

Our ongoing ‘comic strip’ AP following the adventures of Ramshackle Crow.

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-4

A link to Episode 3 of Discern Realities. The AP bit in this one is particularly good. Enjoy!

A link to Episode 3 of Discern Realities. The AP bit in this one is particularly good. Enjoy!

A link to Episode 3 of Discern Realities. The AP bit in this one is particularly good. Enjoy!

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Episode 3 of Discern Realities has arrived! Here is a breakdown (with spiffy new time codes):

What Happened Here Recently? (00:00)

A situation in which one player’s character is suffering because of the failed actions of his companions. 

What Should I Be On the Lookout For? (10:12)

Trenton Kennedy Greyoak’s Grim World 

What Here is Not What it Appears to Be? (17:45)

Fighting a large group of enemies

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me? (26:19)

Mountain Sorrow Ale

What is About to Happen? (33:13)

Our ongoing ‘comic strip’ AP

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com/episode-3

The Gauntlet has a new discussion podcast focused on Dungeon World.

The Gauntlet has a new discussion podcast focused on Dungeon World.

The Gauntlet has a new discussion podcast focused on Dungeon World. It will air weekly starting mid-January. Until then, we have two preview episodes up. 

Here is a breakdown of Episode 2:

What Happened Here Recently?

A discussion about friendly encounters, character downtime, and Carouse. 

What Should I Be On the Lookout For?

The Story Games Names Project

Free PDF: http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/projects/names/galleys/SGNP%20-%20First%20Pages.pdf

Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-morningstar/story-games-name-project/paperback/product-3594462.html

What Here is Not What it Appears to Be?

Adventuring Gear 

What Here is Useful or Valuable to Me?

The Trapeze Master’s Hammock and Reekeesik’s Shrine

What is About to Happen?

Our ongoing “comic strip” AP, featuring the adventures of Ramshackle Crow

http://discernrealities.libsyn.com

Some notes from our group’s sixteenth weekly session (!)

Some notes from our group’s sixteenth weekly session (!)

Some notes from our group’s sixteenth weekly session (!)

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

These pics are from the fifth session of our DW campaign, Oceans of Order & Chaos (and sixteenth session overall). 

This one saw the party meeting-up on Reaver’s Rock (after surviving a lizard folk attack). The Rock, which is nothing more than three taverns used by pirates as a stop-over, was eerily quiet when they arrived. After doing battle with several of his flesh golems (and looting some pretty terrific magical items, including the Staff of Ignis, the Vainglorious Boots, and the Horn of Nammu), the party discovered their old nemesis, Gormakir, might not be so dead after all. There was also a pretty epic battle with a hydra (pictured below). 

The session ended with the party opening a trap door beneath a bar, which led to a basement of some sort.  From this space came a woman’s bloodcurdling cry, along with a creeping sense of dread. We’ll see what they found next session…

Thanks to Kerry Harrison , Daniel Lewis , Trey Palmer Daniel Fowler , Alexander Hay  and our newcomer, Ian Hay .

A report from our Fourth of July one-shot.

A report from our Fourth of July one-shot.

A report from our Fourth of July one-shot.

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Some pics from our excellent July 4th DW One-Shot. This one saw the party infiltrating the abandoned temple of the ancient god of atrocities and abominations, Azad-Kan. This session, which took place 100 years in the past of our main DW game, also functioned as an origin story for one of that game’s antagonists, the dread sorcerer Gormakir the Cruel. 

There were lots of thrilling moments, including our elf wizard facing down a massive abomination made from hundreds of corpses (a la Gandalf and the balrog); our fighter having his hand chewed-off by a ghoul child; and a hopeless, Charge of the Light Brigade-style attack on a horde of orcs.

Speaking of orcs, my one-eyes did this cool thing where they use naked, chained-up orc gimps to function as voodoo doll-like proxies who they can slice and stab to cause injury to the heroes. It was horrific, especially when they started chopping off one of the gimp’s arms!

All in all, a lot of fun. Thanks to Maximilian Garza , Kerry Harrison , Alexander Hay , Ferrell Riley and Ian Hay (who I can’t + for some reason).