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In Stranger Things Playtest Forum 8/27/2005 demiurgeastaroth: Post-Playtest comments
My playtest is up. I've concentrated on the events of player over there; here I'll give feedback about the actual playtest document. Read the playtest first :)
I was surprised…
In Stranger Things Playtest Forum
Participants: demiurgeastaroth, John Harper, rafial.
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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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.
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