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Playtesting – what do you look for?

I’ve playtested a lot of books for others. I read through, I do math, I occasionally use the rules (more now than in the past, because now I have a few game groups, and then I had none). This weekend, and soon in the future, my ever-expanding Heretical D&D project will get playtested. Sure, I’ve…

We all have it coming, kid
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We all have it coming, kid

Thinking a bit more about S2E4 of the Aeon campaign, I can’t help coming back to how badly we biffed it, and still managed to pull it out because of a metagame ability – for which I paid many points – to ret-con a whole series of crap decisions. There are certain things you can’t…

Aeon Campaign S2E4 – Endgame and near-disaster barely averted
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Aeon Campaign S2E4 – Endgame and near-disaster barely averted

Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan (Kyle) – smooth…