Hi, folks.
The Gauntlet online gaming community is running another Community Open Gaming event at the end of February!
Come play TTRPGs with some of the chillest gamers you'll ever come across. This convention focuses on independent RPGs, story-games, and OSR.
And it's FREE!
I'll be running three games, one of which is a repeat of an event I ran at PaizoCon 2019.
I hope to see you there!
The games I am running include...
Escape From Dino Island
Swords of the Serpentine: The Dripping Throne
Spirit of '77: BEAST-Bound and Down!
Trophy Gold: The Godsmouth Heresy
(That last game is my own conversion of the PFRPG adventure module to the RPG Trophy Gold.)
The Winter 2021 Gauntlet Community Open Gaming mini-con was AMAZING!!
I was in 7 games!
I GMed 4 and played in 3.
Thursday
Morning:
I ran the "Powered by the Apocalypse" game Escape From Dino Island. Our heroes were a survey team sent by an eccentric billionaire to map and survey this newly-acquired uninhabited private island so that said billionaire could build a "doomsday bunker." But they found it had a number of recently-abandoned high-tech facilities that appeared to be of Chinese construction... and dinosaurs! Luckily, they found a still-working seaplane on the other side of the island and made their escape!
Evening:
I played in a session called "Batman: The Final Rogue". This was a hack of the slasher-movie story-game The Final Girl, where the "victims" are replaced with a dozen members of Batman's "Rogue's Gallery" and the killer is replaced by Batman who's taking them out! Batman (and Nightwing and Batgirl) sent the following villains to Arkham, Blackstone, or Earth-2: The Penguin, Harley Quinn, The Pied Piper, The Riddler, Owlman, Talia al Guhl, Clayface, Condiment King, Poison Ivy, Scarface, and gangster Harry E (a character we creted at the table) In the end, the Ghostly Maiden managed to escape, and our epilogue showed her basking in the sun by a pool at a luxury resort in Monaco.
Friday
Morning
I ran a session of Swords of the Serpentine, with the free adventure "The Dripping Throne," available at the Pelgrane Press website. The heroes were hired by a ghost to solve his own murder... and they learned that the murder was part of a dark ritual to a tentacled fish-goddess for ensuring good catches by the local Fisher's Guild.
Afternoon
I played in a session of "Monster Squad!", a hack of the PbtA RPG Monster of the Week, re-tooled to be about young teens tangling with monsters in the 1980s, Stranger Things-style. My character was 13-year-old nerd Peter Ennis. We rescued a hyper-intelligent spider monkey from the clutches of an evil military contractor.
Saturday
Morning
I played in a session of The Burning Wheel RPG, run by celebrity GM Jahmal "Mad Jay" Brown. We played an orc hunting party seeking a traitorous half-elf whom we'd once given shelter in our town. We ended up tangling with an elven war-band... and those elves were jerks. Thankfully, only one got away... but so did our quarry. The game was a delight, and it was my first time playing Burning Wheel, a game that's always intimidated me more than a little.
Afternoon
I ran a session of the PbtA RPG Spirit of '77, the game of 1970s pop-culture action/adventure. I ran the module "BEAST-Bound and Down!" (which I'd previously run at PaizoCon 2019). While investigating the crooked mayor of The City, the heroes stole a beer truck laden with bootleg suds out of a warehouse owned by one of the Mayor's holding company... not realizing the truck itself was a ruse to transport a captive Bigfoot!! High-speed shenanigans ensued! That's a big 10-4 good buddy!
Sunday
Afternoon
I ran a session of the OSR/story-game hybrid Trophy Gold with my own conversion of the Pathfinder module "The Godsmouth Heresy". It just sang.
Recordings of many of these sessions are hosted or linked from my YouTube Channel.