We’ve found, adapted, and developed a ton of useful tools for online play at The Gauntlet. To make things easier to find, we pulled a bunch of that material together here. We’ll also be adding this as an page to the website.
COMMUNITY
The Houston Gauntlet exists to provide a safe, diverse, and engaging space for online gaming with community spaces to explore and discuss those games. Everyone participating in the Houston Gauntlet Gaming Community—including, but not limited to the Gauntlet Discord, and the Meetup Gaming Calendar—is required to agree to the following Code of Conduct. This includes all attendees, speakers, performers, patrons (sponsors), volunteers, and staff.
The Gauntlet is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, or religion. The Gauntlet does not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
You may read through our full code of conduct and other policies at our Google Drive
RESOURCES
- TTRPG Safety Toolkit Your play safety best resource is the ENnie-winning TTRPG Safety Toolkit by Kienna Sunrise and Lauren Bryant-Monk
- Overview of Video Options This looks at some of the available meeting software platforms. Much has changed since originally written. It needs updating but still has useful options.
- Helping your D&D Group Try a Monsterhearts One-Shot A blog post by Rich Rogers (+1 Forward, Hit the Streets) with advice about transitioning groups into new games and online play.
- Open Table: What the What? A look at the Open Table approach to online games.
- Sharing the Cognitive Load Includes a discussion of CATS, which is the Gauntlet go-to for presenting games
- An Overview of Tools of the Table