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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!

​Rach and Rich reflect on their Summer Series of Firebrands games. Timecodes: 0:00:53 - Our First Impressions of Firebrands 0:05:58 - Which Firebrands games did we try out? 0:08:27 - What aspects of Firebrands most surprised us 0:14:11 - Which aspects we found underwhelming 0:23:49 - Advice we offer for first time Firebrands players 0:28:57 - Our Highs 0:34:00 - Our Lows 0:37:20 - Final Thoughts on Firebrands and PbtA

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 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 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 hop on the mics to celebrate and maybe educate you on the ENnie awards. We've been nominated for 2022's Best Podcast category! This is a primer on what our show is about and the pair of hosts who make it happen. Timecodes: 00:01:21 - What's a Plus One Forward? 00:02:54 - Who are your hosts? 00:06:12 - What do we talk about in this show? 00:07:17 - What's a summer series? 00:07:49 - A list of some ENnie-nominated games we've featured in previous episodes (links below) VOTE FOR THE ENNIES HERE: https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2022/ Links to previous episodes about 2022 ENnie nominated games! Kult: Divinity Lost. Nominated for Best Cartography. Featured in our episode from August 26, 2019: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/kult-divinity-lost Root: The RPG. Nominated for Best Game; Best Supplement; Product of the Year. Featured in our episode from October 2, 2019: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/root Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Nominated for Best Art, Cover; Best Art, Interior; Best Game; Product of the Year. Featured in our episode from February 11, 2020: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/thirsty-sword-lesbians Wanderhome. Nominated for Best Art, Cover; Best Art, Interior; Best Family Game / Product. Featured in our episode from August 11, 2020. (part of the Belonging Outside Belonging Summer Series): https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/1-forward/summer-series-bob-wanderhome A Complicated Profession. Nominated for Best Electronic Book. Episode is next in our feed, so subscribe!!!

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 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/

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 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 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