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It's a super-sized episode as Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2022, and we bring the podcast to a close.

Timecodes:
0:01:23 - Read a Sitch about 2022 gaming highlights
0:35:14 - Open Your Brain to our stray thoughts about PbtA games and play
0:52:08 - Act Under Fire - our closing thoughts

You can find Rach on Mastodon (it's a social media site - google it!) She's @teddog@dice.camp
You can find Rich on Mastodon, too. He's @orklord@dice.camp

Thanks so much to all of our wonderful guests over the years! Thanks to you, our listeners, too. Happy Holiday and Happy New Year!

The Darkened Threshold is a new podcast from The Gauntlet, coming in 2023! This is a sneak preview of the first episode; the show will launch with its own feed in late December. In the meantime, join us on The Gauntlet Discord server to discuss all things Brindlewood Bay & The Between.

Rach and Rich bring on Rae Nedjadi to talk about their game Apocalypse Keys, which is crowd-funding on Kickstarter until October 11, 2022

Timecodes:
0:02:40 - Read a Sitch about The Promise of a Move
0:11:56 - Open Your Brain to Apocalypse Keys
0:22:09 - Act Under Fire

Check out Apocalypse Keys on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/apocalypse-keys

Find Rae's website here:
https://www.swordqueengames.com/

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This seventh episode of the series features Rae Nadjadi, creator of ​Once More into the Void.

Timecodes:
00:01:30- Setting Up
00:07:53 - The Challenge
00:18:46 - Playing the Games

Find Once More into the Void here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/once-more-into-the-void

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This sixth episode of the series features Tristan and Pete, creators of ​Superstars: Racing Icons.

Timecodes:
00:03:52- Setting Up
00:12:27 - The Challenge
00:22:39 - Playing the Games

Find Superstars: Racing Icons here: https://feelingfickle.itch.io/superstars-racing-icons
Follow Tristan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/feelingfickle
Follow Pete on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Pete_Volk

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This fifth episode of the series features Andrea of Plotbunny Games, creator of ​Miss Bernburg’s Finishing School for Young Ladies.

Timecodes:
00:06:02- Setting Up
00:17:33 - The Challenge
00:26:09 - Playing the Games

You can find Andrea's itch store here: https://catcurious.itch.io/
She tweets here: https://twitter.com/this_curiouscat
Plotbunny Games website (in German) is located here: https://plotbunnygames.com/

Andrea generously agreed to share her Firebrands Games research with us!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KB0-b2K1APeVg8j5pD7Xct1A2XyeKemgael-AIT0-7c/edit?usp=sharing

Wikipedia article on Mädchen in Uniform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4dchen_in_Uniform

Rach and Rich bring on Adam and Thryn of Furtive Shambles to talk about their game Ryne, which is funding on Indie Go Go until August 21

Timecodes:
0:01:45 - Read a Sitch about PbtA and Actual Play
0:16:11 - Open Your Brain to Ryne
0:28:57 - Act Under Fire in a land of ice seeking something hidden away

Check out Ryne on Indie Go Go: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ryne

You can find Furtive Shambles here: http://furtiveshambles.com/

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This fourth episode of the series features Cole, creator of ​Thy Words Inspire, Thespians.

Timecodes:
00:02:14- Setting Up
00:08:09 - The Challenge
00:15:22 - Playing the Games

You can find Cole's games here: https://magicole.itch.io/
They tweet here: https://twitter.com/TheMostMagiCole
Cole's Twitch stream group can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/rollplusbond

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This third episode of the series features Jason Price of AlwaysCheckers, creator of ​A Complicated Profession.

Timecodes:
00:02:31 - Setting Up
00:07:06 - The Challenge
00:20:20 - Playing the Game

BOTH A Complicated Profession and the +1 Forward podcast are nominated for ENnie awards. Public voting for the winners of our respective categories (and many others) is live at the time of this episode's publication and ends July 24th. Please go vote for us!
https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2022/

Find Jason's games here: https://alwayscheckers.itch.io/

Rach and Rich continue their third Summer Series. This series covers games in the Firebrands style of PbtA games. This second episode features Takuma Okada, creator of ​Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern.

Timecodes:
00:01:21 - Setting Up
00:07:48 - The Challenge
00:14:30 - Playing the Game

You can find their games here: https://noroadhome.itch.io/

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

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 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 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

Rach and Rich bring on Misha B of Black Girl Gameworks and podcaster and game designer Brandon Leon Gambetta to talk about ways to get the best out of a game of Masks A New Generation. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love.

Timecodes:
0:12:36 - Masks for players - Favorite Playbooks
0:21:54 - Some Great Basic Moves
0:29:09 - Masks thoughts for GMs
0:41:22 - Challenges to Consider when running Masks

Masks A New Generation can be found on Magpie's website here: https://magpiegames.com/pages/masks
Find cool Masks playbooks on itch here: https://itch.io/physical-games/tag-masks
The Masks fan Discord can be found here: https://discord.gg/Up8MBUe8

Misha: https://twitter.com/BGGameWorks
Brandon: https://twitter.com/bleongambetta

Rach and Rich bring on Miciah Dodge to talk about his pulp adventure game Thrilling Adventures!

Timecodes:
0:02:24 - Read a Sitch about Playing in The Groove together
0:11:06 - Open Your Brain to Thrilling Adventures!
0:20:47 - Act Under Fire with Curtis and Plussy in the bayou seeking the Jade Bat

Check out Miciah's Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/miciahdodge/thrilling-adventures-tabletop-role-playing-game

​Rach and Rich reflect on their Summer Series of Forged in the Dark (FitD) games. 

Timecodes:
0:05:49 - What aspects of FitD most surprised us
0:13:56 - Which aspects we found underwhelming
0:21:26 - Advice we offer for first time FitD players
0:33:08 - Thoughts on PbtA and FitD connections
0:35:04 - Our Highs
0:40:37 - Our Lows
0:45:30 - Final Thoughts on FitD and PbtA

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This seventh episode features Erik Bernhardt.

Timecodes:
00:04:14 - Setting Position and Effect - Long-term play and campaign building for Forged in the Dark games
00:10:55 - Progress Clock on Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants
00:25:59 - The Score - Rich and Rach construct a Fae Patron

Find more Brinkwood info at brinkwood.net

Or, you can pre-order Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants here: https://brinkwood.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This sixth episode features Jason Eley

Timecodes:
00:01:28 - Setting Position and Effect - Using Setting Elements in FitD games
00:08:43 - Progress Clock on Copperhead County
00:19:08 - The Score - Rich and Rach

You can find Copperhead County here: https://guitartown.itch.io/copperhead

Other FitD games with cool settings mentioned by Jason:
Band of Blades, Rebel Crown, Nocturne, Hello World

​Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This fifth episode features Austin Ramsay, creator of Beam Saber.

Timecodes:
00:01:31 - Setting Position and Effect - the split between missions and downtime in FitD
00:08:22 - Progress Clock on Beam Saber
00:20:42 - The Score - Rich and Rach play mech pilots!

You can find Beam Saber here:
https://austin-ramsay.itch.io/beamsaber

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This fourth episode features Ben Nielson, creator of Wicked Ones, from Bandit Camp.

Timecodes:
00:01:23 - Setting Position and Effect - making Devil's Bargains
00:11:32 - Progress Clock on Wicked Ones
00:20:40 - The Score - Rich and Rach populate a dungeon level and send some adventurers through

You can purchase Wicked Ones here (affiliate link): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/338480/Wicked-Ones-Deluxe-Edition?affiliate_id=78493
Bandit Camp can be located here: https://banditcamp.io/

Rach and Rich bring back Brendan Conway of Magpie Games to talk about Avatar Legends: the RPG, out on Kickstarter now!

Timecodes:
0:03:01  - Read a Sitch about Action and Intent
0:11:51 - Open Your Brain to Avatar Legends: the RPG
0:26:27  - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Won against the Dai Li!

Find the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magpiegames/avatar-legends-the-roleplaying-game

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This third episode features Justin Ford, creator of Moth-Light and host of the Hacked in the Dark podcast

Timecodes:
00:01:55 - Setting Position and Effect - using flashbacks
00:10:05 - Progress Clock on Moth-Light
00:20:13 - The Score - Theta and Plus One try to liberate a solar core

You can find Moth-Light here: https://moth-lands.itch.io/moth-light
Hacked in the Dark podcast can be found here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1249355

Rach and Rich continue their second Summer Series. This series covers games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This second episode features John Leboeuf-Little and Stras Acimovic, creators of the Scum & Villainy RPG.

Timecodes:
00:02:32 - Setting Position and Effect - covering the discussion of the fiction in FitD games, and also the non-finality of moves
00:15:51 - Progress Clock on Scum & Villainy
00:27:37 - The Score - a Scum & Villainy chase sequence

You can find Scum & Villainy at Evil Hat's store: https://www.evilhat.com/home/scum-and-villainy/

Stras is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/strasa
John is on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/worldnamer
Their official website is here: https://offguardgames.com/

Rach and Rich kick off their second Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Forged in the Dark (FitD) style of PbtA games. This first episode features John Harper, creator of ​Blades in the Dark, the first FitD game.

(we even renamed the segments!)

Timecodes:
00:01:05 - Setting Position and Effect
00:09:08 - Progress Clock
00:24:00 - The Score

You can follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_harper
Purchase games like Blades in the Dark and Agon on Evil Hat's site here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/category/our-productions/
John's older games can be found here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/

​Rach brings on Freddie Taylor-Bell to talk about their game about a community of wayward animals in search of a new home - Briar & Bramble

Timecodes:
0:01:16  - Read a Sitch about the ease of transition from player to designer with PbtA games
0:06:28 - Open Your Brain to Briar and Bramble
0:15:00  - Act Under Fire with Rach as Clair the raccoon!

Find the Briar and Bramble on Itch here:
https://drunkwizard.itch.io/briar

Rach talks with Heather and Aura, the design team behind Extreme Meatpunks Forever.

Timecodes:
0:01:10 - Read a Sitch about MC tools in a PbtA game
0:06:32 - Open Your Brain to Extreme Meatpunks Forever
0:16:30 - Act Under Fire with Amber and Crow

Find out everything about Extreme Meatpunks Forever the RPG here:
http://meatpunksrpg.com/

Rach and Rich bring on Shawn Tomkin to talk about his new game Ironsworn: Starforged​, which is on Kickstarter until May 26, 2021

Timecodes:
0:01:37  - Read a Sitch about oracle-based play
0:14:43 - Open Your Brain to Ironsworn: Starforged
0:24:10  - Act Under Fire with Rich and Rach as they explore a waypoint

Find the Ironsworn: Starforged kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shawntomkin/ironsworn-starforged

Rach and Rich bring on Moe Poplar of Ashy Feet Games to talk about his shonen anime-styled Steampunk RPG Shibuyan Knights.

Timecodes:
0:01:26  - Read a Sitch about character keepers
0:11:42 - Open Your Brain to Shibuyan Knights
0:17:53  - Act Under Fire with Ramen and Yuzu!

Ashy Feet Games: https://ashyfeet.com/

The Gauntlet's Play Aids Folder: http://tiny.cc/TheGauntletPlayAidsFolder

Rach and Rich bring on Madjay Brown of Diceology and Mark Diaz Truman of Magpie Games to talk about ways to get the best out of an Apocalypse World game. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love.

Timecodes:
0:05:29 - Apocalypse World for players
0:05:51 - Our Favorite Playbooks
0:11:29 - Some Great Basic Moves
0:21:13 - Apocalypse World for the MCs
0:30:11 - Challenges to Consider
0:37:18 - War Stories (from games we've played)

You can find Madjay Brown's show here: https://www.diceology.com/
Madjay's Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/madjayzero

You can find Mark Diaz Truman's work here: https://magpiegames.com/

Rach and Rich bring on Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club blog to talk about ways to kick off a new PbtA game for friends or strangers (who are just friends you haven't met yet)!

Timecodes:
0:10:33 - Poll Your Table
0:15:31  - First Session Stuff
0:20:26 - Building Consensus
0:23:17 - Ongoing Games
0:27:07 - Using Fronts and Playbooks for setup

The IGRC blog:
https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/

Paul's Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/igrc/posts

Rach and Rich bring on Jeremy Strandberg to talk about his game Stonetop, which is on Kickstarter until the end of March.

Timecodes:
0:01:14  - Read a Sitch about making long-term travel in games fun and meaningful
0:13:04 - Open Your Brain to Stonetop
0:22:47  - Act Under Fire with Sheriff Pleswyn and Anywyn the Would-Be Hero

The Stonetop Kickstarter can be found here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1735046512/stonetop

Rach and Rich bring on Epidiah Ravocol to talk about his game Wolfspell.

Timecodes:
0:01:42  - Read a Sitch about how PbtA can help play over the internet!
0:08:29 - Open Your Brain to Wolfspell
0:19:39  - Act Under Fire with two newbie wolves

Eppy's website where you can find Wolfspell and other wonders: https://www.worldswithoutmaster.com/

Rich interviews Alexi Sergeant of Cloven Pines Games about his new Zinequest Kickstarter for Back Again from the Broken Land.

Timecodes:
0:01:22 - Read a Sitch about How Best to Ask Questions and Build on the Answers in PbtA games
0:08:16  - Open Your Brain to Back Again From the Broken Land
0:15:22  - Act Under Fire with 'Lil Plussy

Check out the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clovenpinegames/back-again-from-the-broken-landzinequest

Rach and Rich interview Jess and Alex of Wannabe Games about their game Moonpunk.

Timecodes:
0:02:46 - Read a Sitch about using PbtA in the classroom
0:07:11  - Open Your Brain to Moonpunk
0:19:51  - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Prof. Hazel

Purchase Moonpunk on DriveThru RPG (aff):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308781/MoonPunk?affiliate_id=78493

GCOG info link here:
https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-community-open-gaming.html

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2020, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2021.

Timecodes:
01:41 - Rich's Gaming Highlights
10:17 - Rach's Gaming Highlights
28:13 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2020
38:55 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2020 
45:36 - Rich and Rach's 2021 Gamer Resolutions

Rich interviews Paul Stefko of Nothing Ventured Games about Iron Edda.

Timecodes:
0:01:14 - Read a Sitch about converting other RPG settings to PbtA
0:12:37  - Open Your Brain to Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone
0:21:55  - Act Under Fire with the Berzerker Plussy!

Purchase Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone on DriveThru RPG (aff):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152277/Iron-Edda-World-of-Metal-and-Bone?affiliate_id=78493

You can support Paul and see lots more of his games on his Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/PaulStefko

Trophy RPG is now available for preorder! Check out the Trophy preorder store here.

In this special episode Trophy author Jesse Ross sits down with Trophy publisher Jason Cordova to announce the preorders, give an update on the state of the project, and talk about some of the additions and refinements that are being made to Trophy since it was originally released in Codex. 

More links:

To keep the discussion going, join us on the Trophy Discord server! 

Check out The Trophy Podcast!

Rich interviews returning guest Blake Ryan about his new Kickstarter Season of Dreams.

Timecodes:
0:01:30 - Read a Sitch about checking in with your table to help keep it healthy
0:08:25  - Open Your Brain to Season of Dreams
0:16:55  - Act Under Fire with Pine the Tree Spirit

Check out the Season of Dreams on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1199830675/season-of-dreams-roleplaying-game