TL:DR; Huh... Class Groupings, spellcasting and failing upward, that's neat.

The next generation of DnD starts today, playtesting what is codenamed One DnD.

TL:DR; I made an Item for DnD 5th edition and need help Playtesting it. All feedback is useful.

Sul, sul Simmers! I haven't played the Sims 4 for a while. The reason is because I don't have much space on my Mac, so the game goes kind of slow. I have a lot of expansion- and gaming packs too, and that

We won’t have another playtest this coming Saturday for a variety of reasons (most people won’t be available), so I’m hoping to take some time to really polish up the system. The last session took the

I was a player in another game of Hammercalled, the game I've been working on for a while, this weekend and I thought it would be a good time to write down my thoughts. I'm generally pretty fond of how

So the other day I got to playtest my game as a player, rather than as someone running the game, which was an awesome experience (in the sense that you don't usually get to be on the receiving end of your

I've finally gotten around to having some plausible working playtests alongside my day job schedule, so we'll see some progress on vehicles in Hammercalled very soon. Right now this is a bit of a sticking

In this episode of HwZ 22a - I play test new zones on the Salvation Server in Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition. @brainpod DM Adventures Together we are strengthening the blockchain, to the 300 and its

I playtested Hammercalled with a new group in a low-power sci-fi military campaign yesterday, and it showed some elements of the system that I think are worth noting. First, the low-powered attributes

This week we had a lot of changes to Hammercalled, and my playtest group got a new member who is a total novice not only to Hammercalled but also tabletop roleplaying (but not gaming as a whole) in general.

Yesterday I had another Hammercalled playtest. I tried for the most part to sit back and tell a story, with minimal mechanical intervention (the method I encourage in the rulebook), and I think it went

I find it useful to do a little writing after a playtest, so here's something that I've whipped up. While playing (or, more properly, going through character creation), I made a few notes on my Kindle.

By this time next week, I should have completed the first set of playtesting for Hammercalled since releasing the rules reference publicly. There are about forty pages worth of rules, which is quite a

I originally wrote this blog post about playtesting tabletop roleplaying games in early 2015, but I'm republishing it here with minor edits. A high-level black box model Breaking things down to low level

Had a great time at Protospiel Madison, WI this past weekend. Got to play a beautiful game by Earthfire Games called Argilkin: Ages. ...and their game called "Meat Sweats", which was a very light