The Darkened Threshold

Games We've Been Playing 01:14 - Putting the finishing touches on Beach Blanket Body Bag 03:35 - Trophy Dark: The Pit   Topic 06:35 - Cinematic Gameplay   Media Recommendations 43:31 - The Seance of Blake Manor 45:05 - All Hallows   Come hang out with Alex and Jason on Discord  

Games We've Been Playing 01:15 - New Public Access campaign 04:04 - The Secret of Castronegro   Topic 08:32 - Reincorporation   Media Recs 37:00 - The Salt Grows Heavy 38:56 - Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions   Come hang out with Alex and Jason on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:15 - Public Access with The Bad Spot   Topic: The Backrooms 08:30 - Kane Pixel's The Backrooms 34:58 - Game design discussion   Come hang out with Jason and Alex on Discord! 

Games We've Been Playing 01:25 - God's Teeth 05:05 - Dead-Pilled   Topic 10:00 - Short form Carved from Brindlewood games and By Endurance We Conquer   Media Recs 45:45 - The Terror (show and book) 48:36 - In the Heart of the Sea 50:45 - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage   Pick up By Endurance We Conquer here. Come hang out with Jason and Alex on Discord.

Jason and Alex continue their preview of Arkham Herald!    Come hang out with us on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:36 - In-person game of The Between 04:33 - Defensive play   Topic 15:08 - Arkham Herald Preview (Part 1)   Media Recommendations 05:10 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 54:37 - Things We Lost in the Fire

Games We've Been Playing 01:30 - Crown of Salt   Topic 12:35 - Trophy Gold Combat Part 2: Risk Rolls, Ranged Weapons, and Rituals. Media Recs 57:10 - The Amulet 59:15 - Blue Prince   Come hangout with Alex and Jason on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:30 - The end of Near Enough to Hell 04:46 - Kicking off The Company of Salt & Iron   Topic 13:10 - Keeper's Notebook: Reactions   Media Recommendations  44:04 - Million Dollar Secret 47:00 - The Lies of Locke Lamora   Join us on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:18 - The Girls of the Genziana Hotel 04:30 - Running the new edition of The Between for The Bad Spot   Topic 10:20 - Combat Roll basics   Media Recommendations  53:40 - Hearts of Wulin 55:08 - R.E.P.O.   Come hang out with Alex & Jason on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:12 - The Sketterich family    Topic: The Vast of Night 15:44 - Film discussion 45:23 - Game design talk   Come hang out with Alex and Jason on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:24 - Introducing a new Legacy 05:12 - Kicking off Crown of Salt    Topic 09:52 - The Hunt Roll   Media Recommendations 52:30 - Indiana Jones & the Great Circle 55:18 - Balatro   Join us on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:26 - Alex's The Pirate Queen's Gambit campaign 07:30 - Further thoughts on West Marches Trophy   Topic 15:17 - Lost Transmissions 35:00 - Public Access: Double Feature Writing Contest   Media Recommendations  50:17 - The Roottrees Are Dead 53:02 - In Search of Darkness I-III   Join us on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:12 - Wrapping up Skinny Jeans playtest Topic 13:54 - The Risk Roll Media Recommendations 01:03:01 - The Detective & The Log Lady PLUS reflecting on David Lynch Join us on Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:15 - Bringing a group back from a long hiatus 05:45 - West Marches Trophy?   Topic 13:08 - Trophy RPG overview   Media Recs 57:45 - Ari Aster films 01:00:34 - It's a Good Life 01:02:30 - The Ruins (book from 2006) 01:04:32 - Scarlet Hollow   Come hang out with us on Discord!

Topic 01:10 - Looking ahead to CfB in 2025 Media Recommendations  47:45 - Dread Delusion  49:55 - EoH Found Footage Miniseries and Horror's Greatest S2E3 52:31 - Don't Feed the Muse 54:14 - Possession    Come hang out with us in Discord!

Games We've Been Playing 01:40  - Roots of Old Kalduhr 08:14 - Classic Mastermind campaigns Topic 14:40 - Having a successful CfB Session One Media Recommendations 01:02:03 - Skeleton Crew 01:05:14 - Severance  01:07:06 - The Troop   Join us on Discord!

It's a new year! Come hang out with Alex and Jason on The Gauntlet Discord server!    For this episode, Alex and Jason reflect on PAXU 2024. Later, they each discuss some of their favorite pieces of horror media from 2024. Enjoy! 

The Between is coming to BackerKit on September 24th! Alex Rybitski sits down with creator Jason Cordova to talk about the game, its mechanics, and the crowdfunding campaign. Follow along with the campaign here. Time Codes 01:45 - What is The Between? 02:59 - The Mystery System 05:10 - The Chicken or the Egg? 08:04 - The Between's Gothic Emulation 12:17 - The Playbooks 18:52 - The Play Cycle of The Between 21:10 - The Day Phase 21:57 - The Night Phase 24:10 - Character Backstories in The Between 25:50 - What are the Janus Masks? 28:40 - Revealing Character Backstories 36:07 - Character Width vs. Depth 38:08 - The Fun of GMing the Night Phase 43:25 - The Unscene 50:28 - A Talk about XP in The Between 51:11 - The BackerKit Campaign Details 55:23 - Book One 57:19 - Book Two 59:36 - Book Three 1:02:47 - Other Materials in the Backer Kit Campaign 1:07:55 - A Note About Previously Published Material for The Between 1:08:13 - A Little Preview of Something New for Backers Join us on Discord!