Okay, time to get back to work, and by work, I mean, looking not only at games, but at potential games. And by potential games, I mean playtests. And by playtest, in this particular instance, I mean the third Tales of the Valiant playtest packet, which is all about monsters this time around. I was a little surprised to see
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I wanted to pull together some information on all the different versions of D&D 5e that are currently in production. And by D&D 5e, I mean, obviously, games that use the 5e OGL as their basis, since nobody but WotC gets to put out an “official” version of the game. In the process of pulling this together, hoo goodness, has
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Both Wizards of the Coast and Kobold Press currently have playtests going on to produce a new version of a game based on the 5e SRD. I’ve already talked about this in my look at Kobold Press’ second playtest packet, but I was a little surprised at how many conventions introduced in Wizards of the Coast’s One D&D have been
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Today on the blog, we’re wrapping up my look at the second playtest document for #ProjectBlackFlag, this time looking at the Wizard, their Arcane Traditions, Talents, and the theory of magic everywhere, all at once.
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There is a lot of playtesting going on these days. Not only is there a lot of playtesting, across multiple games, doing similar things in different ways, but a lot of this design has my head spinning and wanting to do a deeper dive into why some of this design is trending. That means it takes me a little bit
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I devoted my lunchtime today to reading through the very first playtest packet for @KoboldPress’ Project Black Flag. This first round of playtesting is looking at some of the rules for Lineage, Heritage, Backgrounds, and Talents #TTRPG
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