Previous Topics
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum

8/25/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Scale
On the scale chart, you have Scale 1 = Person or Small Group. I wonder why you rolled these two into one - I quite like the idea of a…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/16/2005 John Harper: Ghosts
Here's a bit of new text from the book, regarding what happens to dead relationships: Consequences Relationships can be damaging to the people involved. If a re-roll based on a…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, rafial, Clinton R. Nixon, Bankuei, philaros, tonyd, Matt Wilson.

8/14/2005 Rossum: Stranger vs. Stranger Conflict resolution
I'm being warned by my players that one will call for a conflict on the other. Keteb will try to steal Annalise's pocket watch. How should this be handled? Does…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Rossum, John Harper, tonyd.

8/12/2005 Bankuei: Prepping for Playtest
1) Logistics Aside from printing up the map tiles and the character sheets, I went and printed up the Character Creation list on pg. 31, the Conflict summary on pg.…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Bankuei, John Harper.

8/9/2005 Matt Wilson: collaborative creation
Over in Actual Play, Wilhelm said: After everybody arrived and we navigated through the usual social chat, John handed us some character sheets and said "you should make some characters".…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Matt Wilson, John Harper, philaros.

8/8/2005 John Harper: Who is Playtesting?
I ran a game yesterday for Phil, Tony, and Wilhelm. It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping to convince Wil to write it up in Actual Play. :) There's…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, Adam Black, demiurgeastaroth, Bankuei, jporrett, ricmadeira, Clinton R. Nixon, rafial, Rossum, Jake Richmond, RogerT.

8/8/2005 John Harper: Character Sheet (temp)
This won't be the final design, but a practical character sheet can be found here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/strangerthings/st_character_sheet.pdf Sorry it's too late for some of your first playtest games, but I'm sure…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, rafial.

8/7/2005 ricmadeira: Reroll Table
Other people have commented on the coolness of the geomorphic tiles, which I loved too. But another thing that really hooked me is the Reroll Table, you know, the one…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: ricmadeira, John Harper.

8/7/2005 ricmadeira: New PDF for City Tiles?
Hello! Is there any chance we can get a separate better quality PDF just for the city tiles? The tiles that come with the drafts of the rulebook have too…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: ricmadeira, John Harper.

8/7/2005 ricmadeira: More Adventure Seeds
I might have a chance to playtest ST tomorrow... I mean, later today... at least if me and my Amber GameMistress finished this hot Amber Diceless scene we've been playing…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: ricmadeira, Bankuei, John Harper, rafial, philaros.

8/7/2005 John Harper: Stranger Things DRAFT 8/6/05
Here's the new draft of the game. I changed the Injury system back to a more Trollbabe-like method. I also added the Relationships section and cleaned up the text in…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, demiurgeastaroth.

8/5/2005 jporrett: City Tiles
I've read through the initial playtester's pdf twice now.  I gotta say, I like what you've done so far John.  I look forward to seeing what's in the next version.…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: jporrett, John Harper, RogerT, demiurgeastaroth, tonyd, Bankuei, Matt Wilson, philaros.

8/5/2005 John Harper: Injury, Re-rolls, and Rewards
Here's a crazy idea I had about Injury and related systems. First, the basic system: When you fail a RE-ROLL, you mark a Hurt box. The boxes look like this:…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, Clinton R. Nixon, demiurgeastaroth, Matt Wilson.

8/5/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Conflict: Differences From Trollbabe
First, thanks for the opportunity to take part in the playtest. Now on to the nitpicking :) I notice a few differences in the way you do conflicts. One I…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper.

8/4/2005 Bankuei: "Hooking the Players"
Hi, In my initial glance through the PDF- I see on Page 45, there's the question "What if they're not hooked?" answered by "They should use scene request to get…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: Bankuei, John Harper, Ron Edwards.

8/4/2005 John Harper: I'm a playtester! What do I do?
First, get the current playtest PDF. There's a topic in this forum with a link to the most recent draft. Second, read it. Third, get your group together to play.…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

8/4/2005 John Harper: Stranger Things PDF - OLD VERSION: OUT OF DATE -
The current draft of the game is available here: http://www.onesevendesign.com/strangerthings/strangerthings_draft_0804.zip There are still lots of chunks missing, and a page that still refers to the Trollbabe rules. But it's very,…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

8/3/2005 John Harper: Welcome to the playtest forum for Stranger Things
This is a hidden forum right now, so we can conduct some focused playtesting and discussion with a few select people. The forum will become public after the game is…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper, ricmadeira, tonyd, Bankuei, Adam Black, ejh, philaros, Clinton R. Nixon, RogerT.

<< more previous topics

Subsequent Topics
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum

2/2/2006 John Harper: Alive and Well
Hello Faithful ST Fans, I just want to let you know that Stranger Things is alive and well (for those of you who aren't keeping up with the blogsphere). The…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: John Harper.

more subsequent topics >>