For Gauntlet Con 2017 I ran The Veil: Cascade twice!

The First Session, “Dead Silence”, was one where we built a setting and we just improvised our way to a satisfying conclusion. Kind of an accelerated version of just playing a first session.

The Second Session, “The Green Zone”, is the scenario that will appear in Cascade itself, albeit with a much lighter overview with the time constraint. It is an emergent mystery that gives you a setup, a couple threats if needed, and just trusts you to work together to figure it out.

Both sessions were awesome and I enjoyed them for different reasons. As you can tell from the book I love emergent themes and world building brings that out well. On the other hand, pulling off a mystery where no one at the table knows who did it or why, is also so damn cool! All the players were fantastic.

I removed Giri/Obligation, I told the players to simply use moves as they came up instead of choosing them. We didn’t engage with Questions/Beliefs or the XP system; similarly, if they needed a specific cybernetic or piece of gear for fictional positioning, they just had it. In session one I had players choose gear and cybernetics and did not do that based on a player’s suggestion in session 1, and it sped it up very much. I think it’s a good example of running The Veil both ways: prepared scenario and from scratch.

I also scoured the internet for AP of The Veil and compiled all of it into one playlist, along with another for all the AP I’ve participated in as a player. Turns out it is a LOT of content. I’m very blessed to have played in so many games with so many players. I also saved Gauntlet Con playlists to my channel if you want to check out the many awesome games that took place, which, I highly recommend you do!!!

Here’s a link to the main channel’s playlist – simply find what you want there!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClLuAgDLJoPjBDOZqpAlWtQ/playlists?view_as=subscriber