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Band of Blades: Gauntlet TGIT (1 of 3)

Band of Blades: Gauntlet TGIT (1 of 3)

We play Band of Blades, an rpg based on Blades in the Dark. In the vein of The Black Company, our PCs' mercenary company tries to desperately survive in a low-fantasy world overrun by dark forces. This session is part of the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com. If you like rpg APs, check out my full channel. I usually record three different games each week.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 112.79MB - Duration: 2:44:01 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Monsterhearts 2: Once Again, We Return 1 of 5

Monsterhearts 2: Once Again, We Return 1 of 5

Wherein we over-indulgently build our characters & world. Get to know Tyr, The Moirai, Amaterasu, & fucking Apep as they settle into their Atlantic City home. Series Theme Music: https://youtu.be/5GHXEGz3PJg

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 115.75MB - Duration: 2:48:16 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Gauntlet League Wrestling Season 3: Gauntlet Quarterly S4

Gauntlet League Wrestling Season 3: Gauntlet Quarterly S4

We play World Wide Wrestling, a PbtA-based rpg of "sports entertainment." This our Gauntlet Hangouts Q3 series. In the first part of the session we do character creation and build our heat map. In the second part we get to matches. This is part of The Gauntlet Hangouts, a division of the Gauntlet online community. Find out more at gauntlet-rpg.com and check out our podcasts.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 112.21MB - Duration: 2:43:06 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Blades in the Dark (2/5)

Blades in the Dark (2/5)

Session 2 of 5, a new character joins in as we continue looting from the Red Sashes.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 121.8MB - Duration: 2:57:21 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Monsterhearts 2: Santa Teresa Confidential (Ep. 1)

Monsterhearts 2: Santa Teresa Confidential (Ep. 1)

Content warning: self harm.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 115.44MB - Duration: 2:48:05 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Gauntlet City Limits Revue, pt. 1

Gauntlet City Limits Revue, pt. 1

Over two years ago, I started the living campaign of Gauntlet City Limits. It's been a fun way to play lots of new and interesting RPGs with the Gauntlet and friends, to have some cross-overs of characters and places, and feel like we were collaborating to make a fascinating new place together. I have had a very special time playing with you in so many of these games. I've decided to stop running the Gauntlet City Limits series and focus on other projects. But like most things I do, I want to go out with a bang. That's where all of you come in! This is the first of two sessions of the Googly-Eyed Primetime Puppet Show RPG, (which is the Muppet Show RPG with the serial numbers filed off). The concept for this GEPPS game pair is a GCL Revue. I'll be creating puppet versions of the most interesting / amusing / memorable characters from all the Gauntlet City Limits games to mix and match them in a zany series of sketches in set pieces inspired by previous game sessions. It's' a big blow out love-letter to all the fun we've had in GCL.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 38.57MB - Duration: 56:06 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




The Gaunt Marches: The Sickness (1/3)

The Gaunt Marches: The Sickness (1/3)

Fortune seekers venture into the forest to find a mysterious cave under a pool of water, where a being from another plane is trapped.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 151.33MB - Duration: 3:40:20 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Gaunt Marches | A Narrow Way

Gaunt Marches | A Narrow Way

Each year, the folk of the 1000 Sloughs region mark the height of summer with a time of fasting, self-sacrifice, and mortification of the flesh. Few people love these observances, but each year, for either piety or payment, at least a few people undertake the purity rites on behalf of their communities. On the night the yearly fasts begin, an apprentice calls down doom on his master and an imp invades the languid (and humid) peace and quiet of Goatbridge town. An elementalist confesses his sins, a priest drives away an undead swarm, a mage of winter gains a burning scar, a shapeshifter keeps a secret, and a kobold slays a fiend. The Gauntlet: http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 110.47MB - Duration: 2:40:35 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




All Systems Nominal - Inner Sphere 3054 Series (Session 1 of 3)

All Systems Nominal - Inner Sphere 3054 Series (Session 1 of 3)

The first playtest of my mech RPG All Systems Nominal. Our game follows a lance from the mercenary company Vinson's Vigilantes conducting a pirate raid on the Coventry Metal Works deep in Federated Commonwealth space. Played with The Gauntlet RPG community.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 163.32MB - Duration: 2:58:16 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




Monsterhearts: Kingsport '76

Monsterhearts: Kingsport '76

First session of a Monsterhearts series set in Lovecraft Country during the summer of 1976. Created with Movie Studio

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 108.68MB - Duration: 2:38:02 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Misspent Youth: The Janus Minds - Gauntlet Hangouts on 2018/07/03

Misspent Youth: The Janus Minds - Gauntlet Hangouts on 2018/07/03

Teenage rebellion in a fucked-up future: Misspent Youth is a dystopian sci-fi RPG that’s all about friendship, standing up for yourself, and changing the world. You play Youthful Offenders, our heroic protagonists who won't put up with being oppressed. I get to play The Authority, the force that’s fucking up your world and making it a shitty place to live. We will build our world and characters at the table! This session is played as a standalone one shot game for Gauntlet Hangouts. Timings: 0:00:00-0:08:20 The CATS procedure: http://tinyurl.com/RPG-CATS-cs-3x5) 0:08:30-1:12:00 World building 1:12:00-1:19:50 Break / dead air 1:19:50-...

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 190.25MB - Duration: 4:37:00 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Don't pay the Ferryman - (formerly Conjure Hagalaz) - Obfuscate Quest

Don't pay the Ferryman - (formerly Conjure Hagalaz) - Obfuscate Quest

Don't pay the Ferryman - (formerly Conjure Hagalaz) Fantasy Supernatural Investigation Espionage

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 116.02MB - Duration: 2:48:56 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Spire: Blood and Dust (Session 4 of 4)

Spire: Blood and Dust (Session 4 of 4)

Session four of the campaign frame "Blood and Dust" for Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor's game Spire! System: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/spire-rpg/ Campaign Frame: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/blood-and-dust/ Streamed and recorded for Gauntlet Hangouts, The Gauntlet's open table, inclusive game space. The Gauntlet: http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ Gauntlet Hangouts: https://plus.google.com/communities/116329047011220562548 Gauntlet FAQs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t1Y1uKjzSfC7Mb12GrlONPHSzTGrYoMtv3KZgDyMVIQ/edit

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 107.47MB - Duration: 2:36:16 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Blades in the Dark (1/5)

Blades in the Dark (1/5)

Session 1 of 5, character and crew creation, at the end we get into the starting situation, The War in Crow's Foot.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 110.48MB - Duration: 2:40:51 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Gaunt Marches (5 of 5)

Gaunt Marches (5 of 5)

Who is the puppet and who is the master? We see a coup, a kidnapping, flesh act as a key, and love overcome death. But a greater doom has come to fruition because of our friends actions.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 128.68MB - Duration: 3:07:21 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




GCL: Katanas and Trenchcoats (2 of 2)

GCL: Katanas and Trenchcoats (2 of 2)

Moonlight gleams off drawn blades in a dark alley. Somewhere, a mortal cries out as a vampire drinks. Creepy sorcery. Magic hackers. Other goth stuff. And let's throw in Michelle Rodriguez driving through a wall while cursing the family who betrayed her. That's the spirit of this '90s-inspired game-in-development, Katanas & Trenchcoats. Come and play! The Darkest Cosmos beckons…

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 117.5MB - Duration: 2:50:51 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




DW Beneath Cartannah (Session 4 of 4)

DW Beneath Cartannah (Session 4 of 4)

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 195.2MB - Duration: 3:33:10 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




Beyond the Castle Wall | Keep on the Barrowlands (4 of 4)

Beyond the Castle Wall | Keep on the Barrowlands (4 of 4)

Using customized playbooks for a dark fantasy feel, four incredible players create the Drestfall family, Dukes of the Northern Reaches and rulers of Castle Crow Watch. The characters include the decadent Lord Aitor, the second son of the Duke and Duchess; his twin sister, the crafty and agile Lady Lyssa, who knows the language of crows; Stig the apprentice to the Duke's late Grand Vizier; and Gloria, the priestess of a forgotten god who was raised by an old mercenary in the Duke's guard. Lyssa Drestfall says no to The Grey Prince, but considers the power of the demon Whispertongue. Gloria uncovers the plot, but gives up much too much to reveal it. Stig learns a true name, but is not sure if it is the correct one, and Aitor confronts his treacherous older brother.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 132.93MB - Duration: 3:13:21 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Nahual - Playtest 1 (4 of 4)

Nahual - Playtest 1 (4 of 4)

Nahual is a Mexican PbtA of urban fantasy set in Mexico. Characters are shapeshifting nahuals that hunt angels to make a living. They run a "changarro" (business) together where they sell the angels they hunt as different types of products. The setting is an adaptation of Edgar Clement's comic books (Operacion Bolivar, Kerubim, Los Perros Salvajes).

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 120.68MB - Duration: 2:55:29 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




The Green Law of Varkith (DW): Gauntlet Sunday (5 of 5)

The Green Law of Varkith (DW): Gauntlet Sunday (5 of 5)

We play Dungeon World using Brendan Conway's setting, The Green Law of Varkith. Inspired by Planescape and Perdido Street Station, it has the players creating and guild and trying to expand it. This session is part of the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com or our Patreon at Patreon.com/gauntlet. You can also check out my many, many AP recordings on my channel or my ENnie award winning blog at ageofraven.blogspot.com.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 145.76MB - Duration: 2:39:00 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




The Between Long Playtest - Session 3

The Between Long Playtest - Session 3

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 141.81MB - Duration: 2:34:47 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




The Between - Long Playtest - Session 2

The Between - Long Playtest - Session 2

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 144.26MB - Duration: 2:37:27 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




MR-KR-GR: The Death-Rolled Kingdom - Gauntlet Hangouts

MR-KR-GR: The Death-Rolled Kingdom - Gauntlet Hangouts

Five days by boat, upriver. You come to a wide lake, watched by limestone cliffs. Shapes lurk in the water. Shapes wait up ahead. Come explore one of the Thousand Thousand Islands, a South-East Asian fantasy world setting being created by Zedeck Siew and Munkao (https://www.patreon.com/athousandthousandislands). We will be using World of Dungeons, and a few Fall of Magic-flavored locations to tell a short tale in this world, as a one-shot adventure.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 114.7MB - Duration: 2:46:59 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Battle Between the Worlds: Swan Song (Session 2 of 2)

Battle Between the Worlds: Swan Song (Session 2 of 2)

This session is scheduled for 3 hours. It will also be recorded and accessible on YouTube. Maria Rivera and Michael G. Barford will be collaborating and swapping roles throughout the series. We will be playing Battle Between the Worlds, a version of Adventures on Dungeon Planet condensed for one-shot play. Players will be able to choose between Battle Between the Worlds playbooks and Space Wurm vs. Moonicorn Quick Play playbooks, albeit with some caveats. Being able to attend each session is ideal, but not required. You must RSVP to each session you wish to attend. Following from Sidereal Tenets, this series deals with a group of people being hunted for a crime they may or may not have committed. On their tail is the famed bounty hunter Altair, as well as the mysterious Deneb. The tone of the game will be discussed. We will be using the X-card and an open door policy. We will abide by The Gauntlet’s Inclusivity Policy.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 102.64MB - Duration: 2:29:06 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




SWS: Sea of Stars (3 of 3)

SWS: Sea of Stars (3 of 3)

The Rebel Alliance is looking for a few good people to fight against the Empire! Could it be you? I'm running three sessions of Sea of Stars. Sea of Stars is a new tabletop role-playing game focused on starfaring adventurers. It’s powered by the apocalypse and is being written by Michael X. Heiligenstein.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 127.92MB - Duration: 3:06:16 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Veil 2020: Land of the Free Ep 8 - Tragedy at the Docks

Veil 2020: Land of the Free Ep 8 - Tragedy at the Docks

The crew find themselves in a trap as the boat they arrived on is set ablaze and an ambush is sprung. Betrayal and death on the New Orleans docks!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 110.37MB - Duration: 2:40:40 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Masks: A New Generation: Gauntlet TGIT (4 of 4)

Masks: A New Generation: Gauntlet TGIT (4 of 4)

We play the last of four sessions of Masks: A New Generation from Magpie Games. This is a PbtA rpg of teen superheroes. This session is part of the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com. If you like rpg APs, check out my full channel. I usually record three different games each week. You play young superheroes growing up in a city several generations into its superheroic age. Your PCs are members of the fourth generation, young adults trying to figure out who they are and what kind of heroes they want to be. The rest of the world is telling them what to do, but they’ll find their own path amidst the noise. And kick some butt along the way. After all, what’s the point of being a hero if you can’t fight for the things you believe in?

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 103.03MB - Duration: 2:29:46 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Spire: Blood and Dust (Session 3 of 4)

Spire: Blood and Dust (Session 3 of 4)

Session three of the campaign frame "Blood and Dust" for Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor's game Spire! System: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/spire-rpg/ Campaign Frame: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/blood-and-dust/ Streamed and recorded for Gauntlet Hangouts, The Gauntlet's open table, inclusive game space. The Gauntlet: http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/ Gauntlet Hangouts: https://plus.google.com/communities/116329047011220562548 Gauntlet FAQs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t1Y1uKjzSfC7Mb12GrlONPHSzTGrYoMtv3KZgDyMVIQ/edit

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 115.82MB - Duration: 2:48:26 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




DW Beneath Cartannah (Session 3 of 4)

DW Beneath Cartannah (Session 3 of 4)

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 180.68MB - Duration: 4:23:05 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Beyond the Castle Wall | Keep on the Barrowlands (Session 3 of 4)

Beyond the Castle Wall | Keep on the Barrowlands (Session 3 of 4)

Using customized playbooks for a dark fantasy feel, four incredible players create the Drestfall family, Dukes of the Northern Reaches and rulers of Castle Crow Watch. The characters include the decadent Lord Aitor, the second son of the Duke and Duchess; his twin sister, the crafty and agile Lady Lyssa, who knows the language of crows; Stig the apprentice to the Duke's late Grand Vizier; and Gloria, the priestess of a forgotten god who was raised by an old mercenary in the Duke's guard. After the strange stampede, Lyssa leads her friends into the ruins of old temples beneath the castle's new temple, where they go swimming in the old ritual purification baths and meet the servants of the ancient god of dreams who offers to negotiate terms. Meanwhile, emissaries of an old foe show up at the gate and Aitor and Lyssa realise there may already be a traitor in their midst.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 118.62MB - Duration: 2:52:31 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Nahual - Playtest 1 (3 of 4)

Nahual - Playtest 1 (3 of 4)

Nahual is a Mexican PbtA of urban fantasy set in Mexico. Characters are shapeshifting nahuals that hunt angels to make a living. They run a "changarro" (business) together where they sell the angels they hunt as different types of products. The setting is an adaptation of Edgar Clement's comic books (Operacion Bolivar, Kerubim, Los Perros Salvajes).

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 135.31MB - Duration: 2:27:35 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




The Green Law of Varkith (DW): Gauntlet Sunday (4 of 5)

The Green Law of Varkith (DW): Gauntlet Sunday (4 of 5)

We play Dungeon World using Brendan Conway's setting, The Green Law of Varkith. Inspired by Planescape and Perdido Street Station, it has the players creating and guild and trying to expand it. This session is part of the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com or our Patreon at Patreon.com/gauntlet. You can also check out my many, many AP recordings on my channel or my ENnie award winning blog at ageofraven.blogspot.com.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 152.71MB - Duration: 2:46:36 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




SWS: Sea of Stars (2 of 3)

SWS: Sea of Stars (2 of 3)

The Rebel Alliance is looking for a few good people to fight against the Empire! Could it be you? I'm running three sessions of Sea of Stars. Sea of Stars is a new tabletop role-playing game focused on starfaring adventurers. It’s powered by the apocalypse and is being written by Michael X. Heiligenstein.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 123.28MB - Duration: 2:59:31 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Veil 2020: Land of the Free Ep 7 - The Big Easy

Veil 2020: Land of the Free Ep 7 - The Big Easy

The crew navigates through a much changed, futuristic New Orleans akin to Venice during Mardi Gras in order to find their new fixer, Michael Hart.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 112.54MB - Duration: 2:43:51 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




The Gaunt Marches | Desire to Despond (Session 2 of 3)

The Gaunt Marches | Desire to Despond (Session 2 of 3)

In which a journey begins, a Raven reveals their true nature, a treasure hunter's dearest prize is snatched away, no one is gored, and an adventurer and her sister are reunited under less than auspicious conditions. Conceived by Spencer Paskett and featuring Horst Wurst, Richard Ruane, and Jim Crocker as GMs, The Gaunt Marches is a living shared Dungeon World campaign with players across all time zones, roaming the dangerous woodlands and wetlands of the marches, from the domains of the Forest Queen to the seedy streets of Eelton-by-the-Sea. The Gauntlet: http://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 133.25MB - Duration: 3:13:46 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Masks: A New Generation: Gauntlet TGIT (3 of 4)

Masks: A New Generation: Gauntlet TGIT (3 of 4)

We play the third of four sessions of Masks: A New Generation from Magpie Games. This is a PbtA rpg of teen superheroes. This session is part of the Gauntlet Hangouts. You can find out more about that at gauntlet-rpg.com. If you like rpg APs, check out my full channel. I usually record three different games each week. You play young superheroes growing up in a city several generations into its superheroic age. Your PCs are members of the fourth generation, young adults trying to figure out who they are and what kind of heroes they want to be. The rest of the world is telling them what to do, but they’ll find their own path amidst the noise. And kick some butt along the way. After all, what’s the point of being a hero if you can’t fight for the things you believe in?

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 98.11MB - Duration: 2:22:36 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Good Society (3/3)

Good Society (3/3)

Session 3 or 3 of Good Society is a game of balls, estates, sly glances, and turns about the garden. At least, on the surface. Underneath this, just as Austen’s own work, it is a game of social ambition, family obligation and breathtaking, heart-stopping and deeply repressed longing.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 107.1MB - Duration: 2:35:55 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Good Society (2/3)

Good Society (2/3)

Session 2 of Good Society is a game of balls, estates, sly glances, and turns about the garden. At least, on the surface. Underneath this, just as Austen’s own work, it is a game of social ambition, family obligation and breathtaking, heart-stopping and deeply repressed longing.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 119.56MB - Duration: 2:54:04 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




Gauntlet League Wrestling Season 3: Gauntlet Quarterly S2

Gauntlet League Wrestling Season 3: Gauntlet Quarterly S2

We play World Wide Wrestling, a PbtA-based rpg of "sports entertainment." This our Gauntlet Hangouts Q3 series. In the first part of the session we do character creation and build our heat map. In the second part we get to matches. This is part of The Gauntlet Hangouts, a division of the Gauntlet online community. Find out more at gauntlet-rpg.com and check out our podcasts.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 155.65MB - Duration: 2:49:46 m (128 kbps 48000 Hz)




GCL: Katanas and Trenchcoats (1 of 2)

GCL: Katanas and Trenchcoats (1 of 2)

Moonlight gleams off drawn blades in a dark alley. Somewhere, a mortal cries out as a vampire drinks. Creepy sorcery. Magic hackers. Other goth stuff. And let's throw in Michelle Rodriguez driving through a wall while cursing the family who betrayed her. That's the spirit of this '90s-inspired game-in-development, Katanas & Trenchcoats. Come and play! The Darkest Cosmos beckons…

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 119.05MB - Duration: 2:53:06 m (96 kbps 44100 Hz)




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