After a few months of talking about the game, my monthly Saturday gaming group decided to give D&D 5th Edition a try. Rather than run a playtest campaign) like the Blackrazors, our dungeon master is running us through a series[…]
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Category: Playtest
Game Day: Eclipse Phase Playtest
I finally knocked one of the items off my RPG bucket list: “Play Eclipse Phase“. My gaming group has been kicking around ideas for an alternate game we can run when we’re not playing D&D and Eclipse Phase is a[…]
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Questions About Crafting in Numenera
One of the characters in my lunchtime Numenera playtest wants to play a Nano Who Crafts Unique Items, but as I alluded to in my Game Day column I’m struggling with some of the rules.
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Game Day: Numenera Likes and Dislikes
I’ve played through the first Numenra adventure as a player with my Sunday group, and we’ve just launched into our second full-blown adventure. Meanwhile I’m prepping to run the same introductory adventure for my lunchtime group. I’ve played Numenera enough to know I like it … but I don’t love it.
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Game Day: The Return
It’s Game Day, and for the first time in years I’m running Dungeons & Dragons. Well, technically I’m running Pathfinder, but in all the ways that matter it’s the thematic and mechanical successor to the flavor of D&D my group[…]
Read moreThe Ruins of New York: Playtest Notes
“The Ruins of New York” is a 4-hour one-shot adventure written for Ken Hite’s The Day After Ragnarok, a Savage Worlds campaign setting published by Atomic Overmind Press. I’ll be running this event at MEPACon Fall 2009, and since it’s[…]
Read moreWander into a Wilderness of Mirrors
Wilderness of Mirrors by John Wick 17 pages MSRP: $5.00 Buy it from Indie Press Revolution A few years ago I ran a short-lived Spycraft 1.0 PBEM campaign. It barely made it out of the briefing stage, ultimately succumbing to[…]
Read moreStar Wars Playtest: Starship Battles
Never, ever fly a TIE Fighter. That’s the most important thing we learned during our initial playtest of the Star Wars: Saga Edition combat rules as our squadron of three TIE fighters was torn to pieces by an X-Wing and[…]
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Star Wars: Saga Edition – Annotated Playtest #2
Our Dawn on Zebulon prelude campaign for Star Wars: Saga Edition hit Episode II last night, and I think to say we’ve hit our stride. Even with two new players joining the session with no Saga experience, our second game[…]
Read moreAsgard Project: High-level D&D 3.5 Playtest
Rather than just complain about how difficult high level combat is in D&D 3.5, my gaming group’s decided to do something about it. We’ve created a playtest group who’s willing to put in the extra effort it takes to play[…]
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