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Rach and Rich kick off their third Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This first episode features Meguey and Vincent Baker, creators of ​Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands, the first Firebrands game. (we even renamed the segments!) Timecodes: 00:02:03 - Setting Up 00:13:14 - The Challenge 00:31:06 - Playing the Games You can find their games here: https://lumpley.games/ Meguey's "talking to people" writing was found here: https://twitter.com/NightSkyGames/status/1425890164975575047 Support +1 Forward and the rest of the Gauntlet Podcast Network at The Gauntlet Patreon

Rich and Rach are bringing you something altogether NEW! It's a miniseries of Actual Play, where they bring on guest players Cody and Greg to play Apocalypse World: Burned Over version. Rich is the MC for this three-session series, and after each session of play, we'll have a post-play discussion together. Tune in for opening scenes and our first post-play discussion Time Codes: 00:03:47 - Character Intros 00:08:11 - Starting Move with Druben Ki 00:12:19 - Kyrie's Opening Scene 00:25:13 - Bantha Bren's Opening Scene 00:33:42 - Druben Ki and Kyrie Meet Up 00:45:58 - Session Ending Stuff 00:52:19 - Post Game Show starts 00:54:20 - Slice-of-life Beginning Chat 01:03:35 - The Bang Approach Chat 01:12:16 - Untenable Lives 01:14:09 - Parting Thoughts Greg Gelder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GroupSoliloquy Cody Eastlick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyEastlick

Rich and Rach are bringing you something altogether NEW!  It's a miniseries of Actual Play, where they bring on guest players Cody and Greg to play Apocalypse World: Burned Over version. Rich is the MC for this three-session series, and after each session of play, we'll have a post-play discussion together. Tune in for the character introduction and Hx to kick things off. Time Codes: 00:04:41 - Rach's character bio 00:06:05 - Cody's character bio 00:06:55 - Greg's character bio 00:08:23 - Druben's Hx 00:11:45 - Bantha Bren's Hx 00:15:49 - Kyrie's Hx Greg Gelder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GroupSoliloquy Cody Eastlick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyEastlick

Rach and Rich bring back Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club to talk about scalability in PbtA games. Timecodes: 0:04:32 - What's a Forever Game? 0:07:34 - Paul talks about Fellowship 0:29:27 - End Game in Improvements 0:30:09 - Improvements Never Taken 0:32:12 - Monsterhearts Season Changes 0:33:09 - Urban Shadows Scaling 0:34:01 - The MC has no stats! 0:34:38 - But there are So Many Moves 0:38:17 - Paul discusses non-advancement incentives 0:43:27 - Recs for PbtA games that scale well Paul's deep dive on Fellowship can be found here: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/fellowship-close-to-great/

Jonah Knight from Roll to Meddle talks to Jason Cordova about Brindlewood Bay, coming to Kickstarter April 26th! Follow the Kickstarter campaign here.

Rach and Rich bring on Eva Terra to talk about their game Burning Hearts Forever. Timecodes: 0:02:14 - Read a Sitch about cool Moves! 0:07:16 - Open Your Brain to Burning Hearts Forever 0:14:11 - Act Under Fire with a final battle against the Tyrant! Check out Burning Hearts Forever on Eva's itch store: https://worstgirleva.itch.io/ You can find Eva on Twitter: @WorstGirlEva boosts#toggleFormOnEscOrEnter" data-boosts-adding-class="boosts--adding" data-boosts-deleting-class="boost--deleting"> boosts#expandForm" aria-label="Add a boost" data-boosts-target="label"> 

Rach and Rich bring on Jason Peercy and Jason Ward from Accidental Cyclops to talk about their simple and gritty RPG officially based on the music of Faith No More. Timecodes: 0:01:47 - Read a Sitch about Using Music in Game Sessions 0:11:18 - Open Your Brain to The Real Thing 0:19:27 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Curtis in a very bad room Check out the Kickstarter for The Real Thing here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jasonward/the-real-thing-rpg You can find Accidental Cyclops here: https://www.accidentalcyclops.com/ or follow the game on Twitter @thingrpg check out Games Mosingo's art here: http://mosingo.com/

Karen Twelves joins Rach and Rich to talk about her book currently on Gamefound - Improv for Gamers, 2nd edition! Timecodes: 0:01:51 - Read a Sitch about Relationships in PbtA 0:09:14 - Open Your Brain to Improv for Gamers 0:22:58 - Act Under Fire with some Improv games! Gamefound Info: Gamefound preview page: https://tinyurl.com/IfG2ndEd (give it a follow for some freebies!) When it goes live on April 5, the campaign link will be https://gamefound.com/projects/evil-hat/improv-for-gamers

Rich and Rach bring on Kamala Kara of Far Horizons Co-Op to talk about their shonen battle manga tabletop roleplaying game. Timecodes: 0:01:20 - Read a Sitch about Telling Stories during Combat Scenes 0:05:51 - Open Your Brain to Friendship, Effort, Victory 0:18:35 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Curtis in the championship match You can follow Kamara on Twitter @KamalaKaraA1 You can find FEV on the Far Horizon's itch page here: https://far-horizons-co-op.itch.io/fev

Rach and Rich bring on Dusty De Leon of HellaBigWorks games to talk about their RPG about Small Town Heroics and Big Time Adventures. Timecodes: 0:02:23 - Read a Sitch about Love Letters and Set Pieces 0:06:26 - Open Your Brain to Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour 0:15:16 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Lamar You can find more of Dusty's stuff on their itch page: https://hellabigworks.itch.io/ Find Tendencies on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TendenciesG

Rach and Rich bring on Christopher Grey to talk about his modern gothic RPG Great American Witch. Timecodes: 0:02:02 - Read a Sitch about PbtA and Failure 0:08:25 - Open Your Brain to Great American Witch 0:19:33 - Act Under Fire with the witches Chantell and Plussy going clubbing You can find more of Christopher's stuff here: https://christopher.world/

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2021, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2022. Timecodes: 01:51 - Rich's Gaming Highlights 16:28 - Rach's Gaming Highlights 25:56 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2021 34:23 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2021  42:11 - Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions