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Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:40 pm
by goodmangames
For those who are interested, Tavis does a great job summing up his playtest games:
http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2010/12 ... nt-part-1/
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:37 am
by finarvyn
Wow! What an awesome write-up!
If possible, my interest in the game has just gone up.
The more-random philosophy has some great ramifications and I think my group's style will fit this quite nicely!
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:19 am
by JediOre
Very interesting.
From what I'm reading, this could be a RGP that might creep in on my C&C time.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:22 am
by finarvyn
Yes, it seems to share a similar design philosophy to C&C so I can see it cutting into my current C&C campaign as well.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:57 pm
by Tavis
I'm still working on the second part of the Anonycon posts - wanting to respond to one of the commenters there set me off on a long
tangent about RPG system theory - but in the meantime I have
a writeup of the latest playtest where we used a 3.5 adventure with the DCC RPG rules.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:59 pm
by Tavis
One of the playtesters for our last NYC run wrote a little about it
at his blog Dungeonskull Mountain:
I think people who are writing the game off as yet another retroclone are going to be very surprised with the final product. Mechanically, DCC was satisfyingly wild, and felt like a strange (and wonderful) amalgamation of classic Dungeons & Dragons and my beloved Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. In feel, it's much more like pulp fantasy or sword & sorcery than "vanilla" D&D. Magic (which followers of this blog know is one the areas where I feel D&D could use some extra spice) is refreshingly dangerous and exciting, and many of the concepts around which DCC's magic system is built mirror my preferences strongly.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:10 pm
by joela
[quote="Tavis"]One of the playtesters for our last NYC run wrote a little about it
at his blog Dungeonskull Mountain:
NDA? You mean Goodman's taking testers?!?
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:51 am
by trancejeremy
Interesting, but at least in my experience (mostly with Rolemaster), having critical hits (and misses) is fun for just doing one shots, but tends to make campaigns very short lived. (Characters in Call of Cthulhu lasted longer than in Rolemaster)
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:30 am
by finarvyn
Tavis wrote:One of the playtesters for our last NYC run wrote a little about it
at his blog Dungeonskull Mountain:
I think people who are writing the game off as yet another retroclone are going to be very surprised with the final product. Mechanically, DCC was satisfyingly wild, and felt like a strange (and wonderful) amalgamation of classic Dungeons & Dragons and my beloved Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. In feel, it's much more like pulp fantasy or sword & sorcery than "vanilla" D&D. Magic (which followers of this blog know is one the areas where I feel D&D could use some extra spice) is refreshingly dangerous and exciting, and many of the concepts around which DCC's magic system is built mirror my preferences strongly.
An awesome description of the game.
joela wrote:NDA? You mean Goodman's taking testers?!?
If you read some of the other threads, there have been some games at various game conventions for a while now. They are being run by a small, elite crew who have had access to the current playtest docs for some time. No new news in that.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:12 am
by Warduke
finarvyn wrote:
If you read some of the other threads, there have been some games at various game conventions for a while now. They are being run by a small, elite crew who have had access to the current playtest docs for some time.
In 2008, a crack commando unit was imprisoned by a game system they didn't design. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security GSL to the OSR underground. Today, still wanted by publishers, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can play the DCC RPG.
*cue explosions*
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:00 pm
by JRR
I love it when a plan comes together.
Re: Anonycon Playtest Report
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:21 pm
by finarvyn
JRR wrote:I love it when a plan comes together.
One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite characters of all time!