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GC 2016: Con Wrap Up Playtests four and five down. Yesterday was pretty busy so I never got around to writing about my Saturday game.

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GC 2016: ALL The Feels Third playtest down. This time I had a full table to run through the adventure and it went really well.

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GC 2016: Lone Wolfing Second playtest down. The bad news is that the game was ill-attended. I had only one player.

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GC 2016: Out of the Gate First play test down! The boys at Kentucky Fried Gamers provided me with a table at Scotty's Brewhouse so I could do a first run-through of the Playthings adventure.

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Probabilities Gone Wild! (or, How I Finally Fixed Playthings)

Probabilities Gone Wild! (or, How I Finally Fixed Playthings)

After giving the issues with Playthings some breathing room for a couple weeks I decided to get back to it by giving the system, which I’m now calling the Hit ’n’ Miss System™, the same treatment that I gave to the Knockout System™ from my last post so that I could take a peek at the probabilities.

In my playlists I have been using pools of six-sided dice. Each die was successful on a roll of 4,…

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An Entertaining Diversion

I’ve found in the past that if I get stuck on a problem it sometimes helps to walk away from it for a while, do something else, and come back to the problem later with a clearer mind. Following Who’s Yer ConI was jazzed about how well things had gone with the Playthings playtest and I set to work straightaway trying to correct the few issues that I had identified. Some were simple to resolve,…

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How Much Suspension of Disbelief Is Too Much?

How Much Suspension of Disbelief Is Too Much?

During my recent playtest for Playthings at Who’s Yer Con I ran into an issue that has crept in the back of my mind for a long time. I had a kid playing the game who was maybe six years old. He wanted his character to be his plush Toothless the dragon, which was cool. I lovegiving players the chance to play as their favorite toy. The problem was that the kid was insistent that in the game…

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