New: playtestingAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krsteemzzanhive-183959hive-180932hive-185836photographyuncommonlabhive-166405hive-188619bitcoinhive-183397hive-144064hive-150122hive-184714lifehive-145157hive-109690hive-124908hive-139150krsuccesshive-193186hive-153970TrendingNewHotLikersloreshapergames (65)in tabletop-rpg • 5 years agoHammercalled Playtest Reflections 7/6I was a player in another game of Hammercalled, the game I've been working on for a while, this weekend and I thought it would be a good time to write down my thoughts. I'm generally pretty fond…loreshapergames (65)in tabletop-rpg • 5 years agoHammercalled Playtest Reflections 6/29So the other day I got to playtest my game as a player, rather than as someone running the game, which was an awesome experience (in the sense that you don't usually get to be on the receiving end…loreshapergames (65)in tabletop-rpg • 6 years ago5 Rules for PlaytestsI've finally gotten around to having some plausible working playtests alongside my day job schedule, so we'll see some progress on vehicles in Hammercalled very soon. Right now this is a bit of a…loreshapergames (65)in tabletop-rpg • 6 years agoReflections on Hammercalled Playtest 6/9I playtested Hammercalled with a new group in a low-power sci-fi military campaign yesterday, and it showed some elements of the system that I think are worth noting. First, the low-powered…loreshapergames (65)in hammercalled • 6 years agoReflections on Hammercalled Playtest 5/12This week we had a lot of changes to Hammercalled, and my playtest group got a new member who is a total novice not only to Hammercalled but also tabletop roleplaying (but not gaming as a whole) in…loreshapergames (65)in hammercalled • 6 years agoReflections on Hammercalled Playtest 4/28Yesterday I had another Hammercalled playtest. I tried for the most part to sit back and tell a story, with minimal mechanical intervention (the method I encourage in the rulebook), and I think it…loreshapergames (65)in hammercalled • 6 years agoReflections on Hammercalled Playtest 4/22I find it useful to do a little writing after a playtest, so here's something that I've whipped up. While playing (or, more properly, going through character creation), I made a few notes on my…loreshapergames (65)in hammercalled • 6 years agoPlaytest Focuses for Hammercalled (Public Tests #1)By this time next week, I should have completed the first set of playtesting for Hammercalled since releasing the rules reference publicly. There are about forty pages worth of rules, which is quite…danmaruschak (72)in tabletop-rpg • 7 years agoConcepts in RPG Playtesting: “Signal Strength”I originally wrote this blog post about playtesting tabletop roleplaying games in early 2015, but I'm republishing it here with minor edits. A high-level black box model Breaking things down to…oakheartgames (33)in boardgames • 7 years agoPlaytesting at Protospiel MadisonHad a great time at Protospiel Madison, WI this past weekend. Got to play a beautiful game by Earthfire Games called Argilkin: Ages. ...and their game called "Meat Sweats", which was a very…
