The Darkened Threshold

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

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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 

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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

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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

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Discussion

01:30 - The Factotum

Media Recommendations 

29:57 - Sherlock (again) 

30:38 - Downton Abbey 

31:52 - Batman Caped Crusader 

33:30 - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle 

34:40 - Pride and Prejudice (2005) 

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Discussion

02:15 - The Explorer playbook

Media Recommendations

43:25 - Sherlock (2010)

43:44 - Bridgerton

44:10 - Apocalypse Now!

44:24 - The Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries

45:10 - Ain’t Slayed Nobody actual play of The Between

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Discussion

01:35 - The Undeniable playbook

Media Recommendations

34:04 - The portrayal of Dorian Gray in Penny Dreadful

35:15 - Hellraiser and The Hellbound Heart

36:22 - Memoirs of a Geisha

37:00 - Castlevania Netflix series

38:43 - Bad Times at the El Royale

39:10 - Monkey Man

Games We’ve Been Playing

01:30 - The Between game with a homebrew Mastermind 

08:00 - The Between actual play campaigns

Discussion

12:40 - Design Diary: Reflecting on our 4-day Pizza Time! writing binge

Media Recommendations

41:50 - Dark Harvest and Maggie’s Grave

43:50 - Ted’s Caving Journal

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Games We’ve Been Playing

01:45 - Near Enough to Hell

08:05 - A God Must Feed

Discussion

15:43 - Design Diary: Pizza Time 

Media Recommendations

51:25 - The Resolution  and The Endless 

53:42 - Fallout TV show

58:01 - Disco Deathtrap 

01:01:03 - Delicious in Dungeon

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Discussion

01:60 - The American playbook

Media Recommendations

37:00 - Deadwood & Justified

38:37- The Light Sublime trilogy

Games We’ve Been Playing

02:33 - Shadow Society

05:07 - Dr. Murdoch

Discussion

09:04 - The Mother and the Orphan

Media Recommendations

44:59 - The Autopsy of Jane Doe

45:40 - Scully autopsies in The X-Files

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Games We've Been Playing

01:45 - Alex's game of The Between: Empire of Shadows

Discussion

07:01  - The Vessel

Media Recommendations

41:10 - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

42:32 - Our Share of Night

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First Segment

03:14 - Reflecting on the release of The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game.

Topic

20:07 - A deep dive into The Silt Verses Roleplaying Game

Media Recommendations

01:36:20 - I Am in Eskew

01:37:35 - When Evil Lurks

01:39:37 - Kentucky Route Zero

01:41:23 - Eeler’s Choice

01:42:33 - Norco

Games we’ve been playing

01:25 - White Mountain Rescue: Without a Trace

09:03 - The Between: The King in Shadows

Topic

17:11 - The Unscene

Media recommendations 

49:25 - Alan Wake 2

54:00 - Let’s Go Play at the Adams’

57:24 - The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix series)

01:00:00 - The Others (2001)

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Games We've Been Playing

01:15 - Jason & Alex talk about their campaign of The Silt Verses RPG.

Discussion

21:05 - What Counts as Horror?

Media Recommendations

59:32 - The Reaping

1:00:57 - Gideon the Ninth

1:04:00 - Interview With the Vampire (AMC TV show)

1:06:53 - Calls (Apple TV+ show)

Games We've Been Playing

01:10 - The Silt Verses RPG playtest

14:20 - The Between: Ghosts of El Paso

Discussion

25:33 - Writing Moves

Media Recommendations

59:07 - Paperbacks from Hell: The Nest and When Darkness Loves Us

01:01:32 - Myhouse.wad

01:05:11 - Road Warden

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Games We’ve Been Playing

01:11 - The Between: Extraordinary

07:20 - The Between: Ghosts of El Paso

Discussion

14:04 - Day/Night Move 

Media Recommendations

50:22 - Excavation of Hobbes Barrow 

51:50 - HORRORSTOR

53:00 - Video Night 

53:52 - Deadwood 

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Games We've Been Playing

01:20 - The Between: Ghosts of El Paso 

10:20 - The Scoundrel’s Quarter

Discussion

14:09 - Conditions 

Media Recommendations

45:23 - Malevolent

47:37 - Clown in a Cornfield

49:53 - The Last Kingdom

52:53 - Skinamarink