The Darkened Threshold

Public Access is coming to Kickstarter March 17th! In this special podcast episode, Matt and Jason do a deep dive on Public Access—what it is, how it works, and how this edition differs from the version released in 2023. Then, Jason gets very personal talking about the game's inspirations. Finally, Matt and Jason run down what folks can expect in the Kickstarter campaign itself.  Check out the campaign here!

Opening Segment 01:05 - A surprise from The Between players 04:03 - The Lands Remaining stuff   Topic 08:00 - Being an effective Carved from Brindlewood player   Media Recommendations 45:10 - Dungeon Crawler Carl 46:40 - Searching for a World That Doesn't Exist   Come hang out with Jason and Alex on Discord! 

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!

The Between is coming to BackerKit!    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) 

The Between is coming to BackerKit! Sign up to be notified when the campaign goes live!    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   Come hang out with Alex & Jason on our Discord server!

Join us on The Gauntlet Discord server! 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   Join us on Discord!

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   Join us on Discord!

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

Join us on Discord! 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

Join us on Discord! 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)   Join us on Discord!

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   Join us on Discord!  

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    Join us on Discord!

Join us on Discord!   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

Join us on Discord! First Segment 00:02:00 - Reflections on the first days of Public Access release Discussion: Public Access 00:10:00 - Where did the idea come from? 00:21:00 - Game development 00:39:40 - Mysteries 01:02:05 - Campaign Media Recommendations 01:13:30 - Kane Parsons's The Backrooms 01:15:54 - Penpal  01:17:27 - Mystery Flesh Pit National Park  01:18:59 - Public Access Spotify playlist 

Join us on Discord! Games we've been playing 00:00:58 - Brindlewood Bay: The Ninth Step   Topic 00:13:54 - Revealing a Clue   Media Recommendations 00:57:21 - Poker Face 01:00:05 - Harvest Home 01:00:57 - The Outer Wilds

Join us on Discord! Games We've Been Playing 01:10 - Brindlewood Bay: The Ninth Step Topic 11:40 - Carving from Brindlewood: Key Questions Media Recommendations 48:40 - Writer's workshops 49:15 - The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain 49:50 - Haunted City 51:07 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch OST 51:48 - Candle Cove

Join us on Discord!   Games We've Been Playing 01:13 - Alex runs The Retribution Tree from Trophy Dark 10:00 - Jason is challenged by The Cross-Stitch Discussion 16:40 - The conspiracy campaign structure  Media Recommendations  51:12 - Radio Rental  53:10 - Dark Air  55:56 - Chucky  57:45 - Inscription 

Join us on Discord!   Games We've Been Playing 01:24 - Pirate Borg 08:07 - The Scoundrel's Quarter    Discussion 13:35 - My Kind of Horror    Media Recommendations 45:48 - Shudder Documentaries  46:53 - House of Leaves  48:06 - The Left Right Game  49:29 - The White Vault 

Join us on Discord! Timecodes Games We've Been Playing 01:47 - Jason wraps his campaign of The Between: Ghosts of El Paso  09:23 - Alex readjusts his thinking with Blades in the Dark Topic 17:36 - Mysteries and Threats  Media Recommendations 47:26 - Red X  49:39 - Glass Onion  52:52 - My Best Friend's Exorcism  53:20 - Pentiment 

Timecodes Recent Play Experiences01:12 - Alex has an interesting failed roll in an recent game of The Between. 08:51 - Jason plays Cthulhu Dark: The Secret of Castronegro Discussion14:12 - Character backstory Media Recommendations 36:45 - Start of media recs   Join us on Discord! Support the show on Patreon!

Timecodes 02:13 - Recent Play Experiences 11:00 - Discussion: The Brindlewood Bay Mystery System 33:25 - Media Recommendations   Join us on Discord! Support our show on Patreon!