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+1 Forward is a show about roleplaying games using the Apocalypse Engine. We cover these games in play, and talk about the many flavors of games Powered by the Apocalypse. Each episode will have a discussion about mechanics, as well as an example of play.

Final Episode - Lessons Learned in 2022 12/31/2022

Final Episode - Lessons Learned in 2022 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 @ You can find Rich on Mastodon, too. He's @ Thanks so much to all of our wonderful guests over the years! Thanks to you, our listeners, too. Happy Holiday and Happy New Year! /episode/index/show/1forward/id/25471326

Sneak Preview: The Darkened Threshold 11/01/2022

Sneak Preview: The Darkened Threshold 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 to discuss all things Brindlewood Bay & The Between. /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24864405

Summer Series Firebrands - What We Have Learned 10/26/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - What We Have Learned 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 /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24803244

Apocalypse Keys 10/10/2022

Apocalypse Keys 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: Find Rae's website here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24639894

Summer Series Firebrands - Once More Into the Void 09/26/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - 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 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: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24489231

Summer Series Firebrands - Superstars: Racing Icons 09/15/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - Superstars: Racing Icons 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: Follow Tristan on Twitter here: Follow Pete on Twitter here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24382458

Summer Series Firebrands - Miss Bernburg’s Finishing School for Young Ladies 08/30/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - Miss Bernburg’s Finishing School for Young Ladies 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: She tweets here: Plotbunny Games website (in German) is located here: Andrea generously agreed to share her Firebrands Games research with us! Wikipedia article on Mädchen in Uniform: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24211881

Ryne 08/16/2022

Ryne 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: You can find Furtive Shambles here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/24065784

Summer Series Firebrands - Thy Words Inspire, Thespians 08/02/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - Thy Words Inspire, Thespians 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: They tweet here: Cole's Twitch stream group can be found here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23930766

Summer Series Firebrands - A Complicated Profession 07/22/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - A Complicated Profession 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! Find Jason's games here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23823164

Plus 1 Forward 2022 ENnie Episode 07/15/2022

Plus 1 Forward 2022 ENnie Episode 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: Links to previous episodes about 2022 ENnie nominated games! Kult: Divinity Lost. Nominated for Best Cartography. Featured in our episode from August 26, 2019: Root: The RPG. Nominated for Best Game; Best Supplement; Product of the Year. Featured in our episode from October 2, 2019: 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: 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): A Complicated Profession. Nominated for Best Electronic Book. Episode is next in our feed, so subscribe!!! /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23755232

Summer Series Firebrands - Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern 07/04/2022

Summer Series Firebrands - Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern 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: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23629466

Summer Series Firebrands- Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands 06/21/2022

Summer Series Firebrands- Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands 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: Meguey's "talking to people" writing was found here: Support +1 Forward and the rest of the Gauntlet Podcast Network at /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23491745

AP Show: Apocalypse World: Burned Over (1 of 3) 06/15/2022

AP Show: Apocalypse World: Burned Over (1 of 3) 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: Cody Eastlick on Twitter: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23433011

AP Show: Apocalypse World: Burned Over 05/26/2022

AP Show: Apocalypse World: Burned Over 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: Cody Eastlick on Twitter: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23231297

Scalability 05/11/2022

Scalability Rach and Rich bring back Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club to talk about scalability in PbtA games. Timecodes: 0:04:32 - What's a Forever Game? 0:07:34 - Paul talks about Fellowship 0:29:27 - End Game in Improvements 0:30:09 - Improvements Never Taken 0:32:12 - Monsterhearts Season Changes 0:33:09 - Urban Shadows Scaling 0:34:01 - The MC has no stats! 0:34:38 - But there are So Many Moves 0:38:17 - Paul discusses non-advancement incentives 0:43:27 - Recs for PbtA games that scale well Paul's deep dive on Fellowship can be found here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/23073155

Brindlewood Bay Kickstarter Special 04/22/2022

Brindlewood Bay Kickstarter Special Jonah Knight from Roll to Meddle talks to Jason Cordova about Brindlewood Bay, coming to Kickstarter April 26th! Follow the Kickstarter campaign /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22873775

Burning Hearts Forever 04/19/2022

Burning Hearts Forever Rach and Rich bring on Eva Terra to talk about their game Burning Hearts Forever. Timecodes: 0:02:14 - Read a Sitch about cool Moves! 0:07:16 - Open Your Brain to Burning Hearts Forever 0:14:11 - Act Under Fire with a final battle against the Tyrant! Check out Burning Hearts Forever on Eva's itch store: You can find Eva on Twitter: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22832960

The Real Thing RPG 04/07/2022

The Real Thing RPG 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: You can find Accidental Cyclops here: or follow the game on Twitter check out Games Mosingo's art here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22710317

Improv for Gamers, 2nd edition 03/22/2022

Improv for Gamers, 2nd edition 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: (give it a follow for some freebies!) When it goes live on April 5, the campaign link will be /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22525142

Friendship, Effort, Victory 03/11/2022

Friendship, Effort, Victory 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: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22412099

Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour 02/24/2022

Tendencies: Spirits and Glamour 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: Find Tendencies on Twitter here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/22238858

Great American Witch 01/31/2022

Great American Witch 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: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/21958322

Lessons Learned in 2021 and Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions 12/31/2021

Lessons Learned in 2021 and Rich and Rach's 2022 Gamer Resolutions 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 /episode/index/show/1forward/id/21639713

Take an Advance... on Masks A New Generation 12/27/2021

Take an Advance... on Masks A New Generation 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: Find cool Masks playbooks on itch here: The Masks fan Discord can be found here: Misha: Brandon: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/21603782

Thrilling Adventures! 11/23/2021

Thrilling Adventures! 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: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/21254795

Armour Astir Advent 11/07/2021

Armour Astir Advent Rach and Rich bring on Briar Sovereign to talk about their game about mecha and magic. Timecodes: 0:01:09 - Read a Sitch about using play-by-post to bridge live game sessions! 0:10:00 - Open Your Brain to Armour Astir Advent 0:16:01 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Chantel as they take on some mechs Briar's Twitter: Briar's Itch store: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/21076328

Summer Series FitD- What We Have Learned 10/18/2021

Summer Series FitD- What We Have Learned 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 /episode/index/show/1forward/id/20859929

Summer Series FitD- Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants 10/05/2021

Summer Series FitD- Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants 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 Or, you can pre-order Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants here: /episode/index/show/1forward/id/20706545

Summer Series FitD- Copperhead County 09/21/2021

Summer Series FitD- Copperhead County 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: Other FitD games with cool settings mentioned by Jason: Band of Blades, Rebel Crown, Nocturne, Hello World /episode/index/show/1forward/id/20544344

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