Indie RPGs. Story Games. OSR

Cthulhu Deep Green: Operation Fulminate (2 of 2)

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

The second session of a game of Cthulhu Deep Green. Two agents have their holidays interrupted when a missing boy appears in a national park under strange circumstances. This was supposed to be a one-shot but the session unexpectedly got cut short; part 2 to follow. This game was organised and played through the Gauntlet online gaming community: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/. You can find Cthulhu Deep Green at https://moth-lands.itch.io/cthulhu-deep-green.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 57.94MB - Duration: 1:24:21 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Brinkwood Legacy S2 Session 2 (Blood of Tyrants)

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

CW: body horror This is a campaign that uses three different TTRPGs to tell one story. Each arc of Brinkwood Legacy we'll weave our story between three games: Brinkwood: Refuge, In The Face Of Our Despair, and Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants. In this session the brigands continue to infiltrate Count Dumask's party, and come across a truly sinister plot. The Count is willing to go through great lengths for power, and will pay the price gladly. You can find the start of the story here in our first playtest of Brinkwood: Refuge: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjQd10MVA_8etJW4w1N8kpTBWXzTVaZjP Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants had a successful kickstarter! If you missed the funding period you can pre-order the game here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erikthebearik/brinkwood-the-blood-of-tyrants I am so honored and excited for contributing to Brinkwood, I am working on two games that offer different ways of exploring the world and people of Cardenfell. I am working on In The Face of Our Despair and Refuge: Brinkwood. You can further support me through my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swordqueengames You can find my other games here: https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/ This game is part of the Gauntlet Calendar, and online gaming club were folks sign up for dozens of game every month! We play indie games, story games, and OSR! You can find out more here and join us: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/online-gaming.html

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 83.5MB - Duration: 2:01:23 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Urban Shadows - The City of Perspiring Dreams (1/3)

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Alun R facilitates the first of 3 sessions of Urban Shadows 2nd Edition (Quikstart). This session was organsied as part of The Gauntlet RPG Community's monthly calendar of games (www.gauntlet-rpg.com). At an imaginary Cambridge College in an imagined 1970's urbane fixer/grifter Reggie the Vamp meets friend (and blood supplier) the Veteran 'Smith' ... that's THE Smith. We find out about the 'Piers Verde Dining Club', an incursion by werewolves leading to a call for vampire solidarity, and Wynne the Fae demanding that 'those werewolves are mine' ... then ... stuff happens ... including a lost sword, a walking statue, and a change in the wine list ...

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 102.05MB - Duration: 2:28:35 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Last Fleet Episode 01

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

This is the first episode of our a dozen-episode 'quarterly' run of Last Fleet, a tabletop RPG of humanity's flight from an implacable alien adversary intent on wiping them out. In this episode, we meet the characters and see how they're dealing with a recent ambush on the Fleet. We organized and played this game via the Gauntlet Calendar: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-calendar.html You can preorder Last Fleet directly from publisher Black Armada Games via Backerkit: https://lastfleet.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders To support more of my Actual Play videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, and check out my RPG recap podcast, Just Played: https://anchor.fm/justplayed Find Jim on Twitter: @jimlikesgames, and as Jim Likes-Games Crocker on Facebook.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 100.54MB - Duration: 2:26:12 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Free from the Yoke: Firebird Suite Session 1

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

We play Free from the Yoke, a low-fantasy Slavic-inspired rpg of families and heroes. It is built on the Legacy: Life Among the Ruins engine. This session starts with character creation and rolls into play. This game is part of the Gauntlet Calendar. Find out more at gauntlet-rpg.com.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 81.59MB - Duration: 1:58:35 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Tales from the Low Cantrefs: Shadow Cast by the Hearth 2/4

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 117.95MB - Duration: 2:51:39 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Ultraviolet Grasslands Season 11: Monoliths & Dimensions (1/3)

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Vicar's Beach III https://blackcitygauntlet.blogspot.com/2021/01/vicars-beach-iii.html Music: sednoseterces by Hinterland https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hinterheim/face_b/01-sednoseterces-hinterheim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 77.29MB - Duration: 1:52:19 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Gauntlet Book Club: Wolfsong/Bite Marks Session 0

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

In this series, we have read the novel Wolfsong by TJ Klune ( http://www.tjklunebooks.com/green-creek ) and we will play a the RPG Bite Marks by Becky Annison ( https://blackarmada.com/product/bite-marks/ ) inspired by our reading. Wolfsong is a supernatural gay romance story about a young man's coming of age and discovery of the existence of a werewolf pack in the house next door. Bite Marks is a PbtA game of werewolf pack dynamics. This game is arranged through the Gauntlet Calendar. You can learn more about the Gauntlet online RPG community at https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ This includes information on the Gauntlet produced podcasts, Codex - an RPG zine for indie games from OSR to story games, and signing up for games advertised on the calendar. Also, check out the forums at https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/ to chat and say hi! We learn a little about our pack and the werewolves who make it up. Ghost the Howl, the haunted brother of the current Alpha Marcus. Cody the Cub, a newly bitten werewolf and former boyfriend of Marcus. Ivar the Enforcer, an older bitten werewolf who served under the previous Alpha. And Jaxon the Fixer, instagram model and brother-in-law to the Alpha.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 76.33MB - Duration: 1:50:53 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Crush of the Titans (2/5)

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a PbtA game of fantasy action and queer romance by April Kit Walsh of Gay Spaceship Games ( GaySpaceship.com ), published in association with Evil Hat Productions ( www.evilhat.com ) The game is currently in production following a successful kickstarter, and this game is being run using the preview rules provided to backers. This game takes inspiration from pop-culture takes on Greek mythology. This game is arranged through the Gauntlet Calendar. You can learn more about the Gauntlet online RPG community at https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ This includes information on the Gauntlet produced podcasts, Codex - an RPG zine for indie games from OSR to story games, and signing up for games advertised on the calendar. Also, check out the forums at https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/ to chat and say hi! We meet our fourth member of the crew, Katch the Spooky Witch - a Spartan helot theatre nerd with an unusual connection the the Underworld. The crew puts on a performance of a new satire on the suitors of Penelope at King Telemachus' court in Ithaca. Rhode catches the attention of Prince Nicomedes, who delivers a warning. Katch (mostly?) accidentally pulls King Leonidas of Sparta out of the underworld. Nymphadora accepts a commission to retrieve an item from the horde of Odysseus. And Berenice chafes against her upbringing even as she prepares to face her mother in combat.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 82.31MB - Duration: 1:59:34 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Monsterhearts 2: Tomb of Horrors (1 of 4)

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

The first session in a game of Avery Alder's Monsterhearts 2 about emotionally volatile monsters playing DnD in the 80s. This game was organised and played through the Gauntlet online gaming community: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/. You can find out more about Monsterhearts or order a copy through https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/monsterhearts.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 96.26MB - Duration: 2:20:10 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Gauntlet Space Wurm vs Moonicorn

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Session 1 of 8. We create the Universe and introduce our characters. This is a world-build and Char Gen session. Space Wurm vs Moonicorn by Johnstone Metzger

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 109.1MB - Duration: 2:38:42 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Brinkwood Legacy S2 Session 1 (Blood of Tyrants)

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

CW: blood This is a campaign that uses three different TTRPGs to tell one story. Each arc of Brinkwood Legacy we'll weave our story between three games: Brinkwood: Refuge, In The Face Of Our Despair, and Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants. In this session we our brigands return to the foray! Count Dumask has retreated to the Marshlands, hiding from Sister Red and the Baron. The brigands decide to pit vampire servant against vampire servant. Can they infiltrate the strange home of the Count and leave behind enough evidence to point him towards Sister Red? You can find the start of the story here in our first playtest of Brinkwood: Refuge: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjQd10MVA_8etJW4w1N8kpTBWXzTVaZjP Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants had a successful kickstarter! If you missed the funding period you can pre-order the game here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erikthebearik/brinkwood-the-blood-of-tyrants I am so honored and excited for contributing to Brinkwood, I am working on two games that offer different ways of exploring the world and people of Cardenfell. I am working on In The Face of Our Despair and Refuge: Brinkwood. You can further support me through my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swordqueengames You can find my other games here: https://temporalhiccup.itch.io/ This game is part of the Gauntlet Calendar, and online gaming club were folks sign up for dozens of game every month! We play indie games, story games, and OSR! You can find out more here and join us: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/online-gaming.html

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 89.03MB - Duration: 2:09:26 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Ben Lehman's Polaris RPG, Session 1

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

The opening session of a game of Ben Lehman's Polaris with the Gauntlet, an online roleplaying game community. If you are interested in this type of activity, join us at gauntlet-rpg.com. It is free to play.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 82.3MB - Duration: 1:59:49 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

HEART: Sickness Unto Foolish Death (1 of 4)

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

An introductory delve into the nightmare undercity of Heart as a deeply out-of-their-depth drow nobleman contracts a seasoned Cleaver drawn to the song of the heart, an enlightened Deep Apiarist seeking the perfect hive deep down below and gnoll Deadwalker searching for death's ultimate defeat to take him deep below the earth. The Gauntlet, and everything related, can be found at https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com Heart: The City Beneath, by Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor, can be found at https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product-category/game-systems/resistance/heart/

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 45.41MB - Duration: 1:05:53 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

ECHO

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

ECHO for the Gauntlet Gaming Community

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Gauntlet Book Club: Wolfsong/Bite Marks

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

In this series, we have read the novel Wolfsong by TJ Klune ( http://www.tjklunebooks.com/green-creek ) and we will play a the RPG Bite Marks by Becky Annison ( https://blackarmada.com/product/bite-marks/ ) inspired by our reading. Wolfsong is a supernatural gay romance story about a young man's coming of age and discovery of the existence of a werewolf pack in the house next door. Bite Marks is a PbtA game of werewolf pack dynamics. This game is arranged through the Gauntlet Calendar. You can learn more about the Gauntlet online RPG community at https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ This includes information on the Gauntlet produced podcasts, Codex - an RPG zine for indie games from OSR to story games, and signing up for games advertised on the calendar. Also, check out the forums at https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/ to chat and say hi! In this first session, we discuss our reactions to the novel Wolfsong, and what elements we might draw on for our eventual game. It should go without saying, this discussion does contain some spoilers for Wolfsong.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 60.23MB - Duration: 1:27:27 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

SWS HyperspaceD6 01

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

The New Republic's forces are closing in on Imperial Warlord Zsinj. Zsinj's Empire is falling apart day by day, but the despot is determined to hold on for as long as he can... and punish those who pry his grasp loose from this piece of the galaxy! And who are you caught in this maelstrom? You're a team of New Republic troubleshooters with cover identities sent on missions deep in enemy territory to try and dismantle Warlord Zsinj's Empire bit by bit. What motivates you to such dangerous adventure? What has Zsinj's Imperial forces done that cries out for vengeance by you and your allies? Let's play and find out. For this series, we'll be using HyperspaceD6, a stripped-down version of the original West End Games d6 system. I've also further hacked the game so all rolls are player-facing and replaced the wounds system with conditions from Lady Blackbird.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 86.16MB - Duration: 2:05:16 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Hyperspace D6 - Scoundrels - Chapter 1

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Join us in this 5 part Hyperspace D6 Star Wars actual play. When Qi'ra gives Kat Foy'loni a job and a chance at the big leagues they recruit Quake and Yuno Sunfell to steal something from the Imperial Carrier the Blue Star.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 90.91MB - Duration: 2:12:22 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

7th Sea d6: On the High Seas S3

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

We play a seafaring nautical series of the 7th Sea RPG but hacked to use a d6 pool system. This is part of the Gauntlet Calender, an online gaming community. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 92.85MB - Duration: 2:14:57 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)

Night's Black Agents: Roused Prey S5 (Finale)

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0800

We played Night's Black Agents with some system modifications drawn from Solo Ops, PbtA, and elsewhere. This session is part of the Gauntlet Calendar-- find out more here: gauntlet-rpg.com

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 117.87MB - Duration: 2:51:25 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)