Tag: Jason Cordova

Get caught-up on Codex Volume 3 TODAY

Today is the last day to get Codex – Joy 2 in The Gauntlet’s $4+ Patreon feed. If you pledge today, you get both Joy 2 and Dark 2 (which comes out tomorrow) for a single pledge. You can also grab Codex – Flame for FREE on The Gauntlet website, meaning you will be completely caught-up on Volume 3 of Codex.

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Codex – Chrome 2 will be $5 USD when it hits DriveThruRPG next month. HOWEVER, if The Gauntlet can get to 2,020 Twitter followers by tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern, they will make this issue of their zine FREE for ten days prior to that. The Gauntlet Twitter account is @GauntletRPG

Chrome 2 features: Veil 2020, a slimmed-down, retro version of Fraser Simons’s cyberpunk game The Veil; Full Throttle, a rules supplement and starter scenario for Robert Nolan’s outlaw biker gang game 1%er; Body//Hack, a 1-player journaling game by Kira Magrann about learning to live with your new cybernetic body part; Three Dozen Cyberware Glitches and Malfunctions; a bunch of fabulous illustrations; and a beautiful custom layout by Oli Jeffery.

To get it for FREE, help The Gauntlet get to 2,020 Twitter followers by tomorrow morning! Tell everyone you know to follow them @GauntletRPG

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There are only 9 hours left to back the Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter campaign. This is a one and done book—don’t miss out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/codex-rpg-zine-volume-1-hardcover

The Gauntlet is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a hardcover collection of the first 13 issues of our magazine, Codex. We are getting close to unlocking a very exciting new stretch goal: Night Witches: Koldunya!

Koldunya is being written by Jason Morningstar himself and will be the first major expansion for his critically-acclaimed Night Witches. Here is Jason’s description:

Religion was brutally suppressed in the pre-war Soviet Union, but both Orthodoxy and syncretic folk ways survived. The women of the 588th were a mix of true believers, cultural Christians, and atheists. All of them were familiar with the superstitious magic of the Russian countryside, and whether they believed in it or not, it was suffused in the air they breathed. Witches – koldunya – were real, and they could heal and curse. Even the staunchest Soviet atheist and most rational technocrat would think twice before crossing the path of one. Of course magic isn’t real, but intention is everything…

Night Witches: Koldunya adds two new Natures and a whole suite of witchcraft moves to the game. It gives you a background on religion and anti-religious efforts in the Soviet Union before the war, and allows you to add a strange and surreal veneer to your game.

The Jackdaw is a gregarious, easily distracted lover of light – a healer and soothsayer. The Nightjar, in contrast, is a solitary creature of darkness, often reviled and capable of great mischief. Both are koldunya, and both are full-fledged pilots and navigators within the regiment. Will they use their gifts in the service of God, the devil, the 588th or comrade Stalin?

We would love your help in making both the book and this incredible stretch goal a reality. Please give the campaign a look!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/codex-rpg-zine-volume-1-hardcover?ref=user_menu

The Codex Volume 1 Kickstarter is live!

The Gauntlet’s Kickstarter to the raise funds needed to put our beautiful PDF zine in a gorgeous hardcover book is live! Codex is absolutely jam-packed with Powered by the Apocalypse stuff, including expanded content for: Urban Shadows, The Sprawl, Dungeon World (LOTS of Dungeon World), Apocalypse World (our terrific playbook based off BABYMETAL) and more!

We hope you’ll take some time to look at the campaign page today. If you have any questions, let me know!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gauntlet/codex-rpg-zine-volume-1-hardcover?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=codex+

ENnies voting is now open!

Fear of a Black Dragon has been nominated for Best Podcast, and we would be honored and thrilled if you voted for it. Ranking it #1 would be even sweeter. Our show is billed as an OSR podcast, but there is a huge amount of Powered by the Apocalypse discussion (no surprise, as it’s a production of The Gauntlet).

http://ennie-awards.com/vote/2018/

Fear of a Black Dragon is a strange, cool beast. Every episode, we cover a new OSR module or setting book. During the section called The Basic Crawl, we run through the features of the module, discuss what we liked about it, pose and answer questions we had about it, and then do a “chain lightning round” of cool tidbits in the text. The next section, called The Expert Delve, is where we discuss an issue connected to the module, usually through the lens of story game or narrativist techniques. Finally, in Companion Adventures, we discuss films, books, and other media that would serve as great inspiration for the module.

What I like best about Fear of a Black Dragon is that, in addition to being very entertaining, it does a lot to create space for gamers from different ttrpg “tribes” to interact with each other’s stuff. Story gamers and indie gamers get to hear about the wildly inventive stuff going on in the OSR scene, and OSR gamers are shown how story game techniques can be helpful in running their games. It is truly a podcast for everyone, and I like to think it is doing a lot to improve how we have conversations about ttrpgs.

If you are interested in sampling an episode, here are a few of my favorites (with a note about The Expert Delve topic for each):

Ravenloft (Kicking-off the adventure)

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/ravenloft

The Secret of Castronegro (Working with theme and motif)

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/the-secret-of-castronegro

Operation Unfathomable (Good characterizations)

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-black-dragon/operation-unfathomable

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Gauntlet Hangouts

So, over at The Gauntlet, we run a whole heck of a lot of games every month. At the moment, we have 214 sessions scheduled on Gauntlet Hangouts through August (and we have barely started putting things up for August). Many of those sessions are for games Powered by the Apocalypse.

Our community takes the act of playing ttrpgs very seriously. We teach each other, we support each other, we celebrate each other. Our open table play culture is all about creating space for new people to get involved; you never have to have experience with a particular game, and you can attend even if you can only make a session or two. No experience with online games? Doesn’t matter–we want you here. You’ll get up to speed very quickly with a group of fabulous people who will support you the whole way!

For more info about Gauntlet Hangouts, including how to RSVP, check the link below. More $7 Patreon spots will be available July 1st!

http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-hangouts.html

Here is the full list of Gauntlet Hangouts games currently scheduled (bold entries still have space):

1%er: Hounds of the Moon, Santa Juanita Chapter

Dungeon World (Spanish Language)

Band of Blades

Battle Between the Worlds: Swan Song

Beyond the Wall: Caverns of Thracia

Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark: Iruvia

Bluebeard’s Bride

The Big H

Colony Farout (Playtest)

Dawg the RPG: The Terrifying Tomb of Ankhatton

Deeper in Dolmenwood

Demihumans (Playtest)

Don’t Rest Your Head: Postcards from the Mad City

Dream Apart

Dream Askew

Dungeon World: Beneath Cartannah

Dungeon World: Darú, Tün Vareg

Dungeon World: Gaunt Marches (Two Groups, Long Campaign)

Dungeon World: Green Law of Varkith

Dungeonhearts: Youth on the Borderland

Dungeon World: The Wall

Dungeon World: Cold Ruins of Last Life

Epyllion

Fall of Magic

Fellowship

Gauntlet League Wrestling: Road Tour

Gauntlet League Wrestling: Season Three

Love & Justice

Hack the Planet: Shifting

Hack the Planet: The Blue Oolong

Hack the Planet: The Constant Gardeners

Hell or High Water (Playtest)

Monster of the Week: Agents of FAUST

Masks: A New Generation

Midnight at the Oasis

Monster of the Week: Big Business

Monster of the Week: Halloween

Monster of the Week: Liquid Satan

Monsterhearts 2: Ballhir

Monsterhearts 2: Emerald City Drama Club

Monsterhearts 2: Goodnight Children, Everywhere

Monsterhearts 2: Once Again, We Return

Monsterhearts 2: Santa Teresa Confidential

Nahual (Playtest)

Night Witches

Pasión de las Pasiones: Love in a Time of Rebellion

Polaris

PsiRun

Rhapsody of Blood: Creeping Darkness

Sea of Stars: Revolutions (Long Campaign)

Shock

Spire: Blood & Dust

ViewScream

Hutt Cartel

Tall Pines

The Between (Playtest, Multiple)

The Final Girl: Final Girl in SPACE!!!

The King is Dead

The Tears of the Gods

The Veil

The Veil: Melodie

Urban Shadows (German language)

Veil 2020: Land of the Free

Velvet Glove: Down by the Disco

Whitehack: The Gardens of Ynn

World of Dungeons: Fuck for Satan

World of Dungeons: The Golden Poppy Trading Co.

World of Dungeons: Tomb of Horrors

Worlds of Adventure: Grim Hunt

You, Me, and the Zombie (Playtest)

Hello! If you have been thinking about pledging to the Gauntlet Patreon, today would be a terrific day to do so! Right now, your $4+ pledge gets you three issues of our zine, Codex (which always has Powered by the Apocalypse stuff in it):

-Codex – Love 2 and Codex – Love, both in the feed until midnight.

-Codex – Moonlight, which enters the feed tomorrow.

If you have any questions, let me know!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

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I don’t know about you, but when I think of March, I think of lesbian snake people. To that end, the Gauntlet is giving away two PDF copies of Kira Magrann’s Powered by the Apocalypse game A Cozy Den. We’ll do drawings on March 17th and March 31st. To be entered in the drawings, all you have to do is follow us on Twitter @GauntletRPG.

For more information about A Cozy Den, go here:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/234703/A-Cozy-Den

To learn more about Kira and her work, check out these links:

https://www.patreon.com/kiramagrann

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC75Y1r18wNSrS8jNUZ75Xow

Thanks to Mathias Belger for their help with this promotion.

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