I probed Richard Rogers to see if he was interested in this a couple of months ago and he said to bring it back up when I was organizing it and one of my players from the Gauntlet campaigns I ran this summer suggested I’d be welcome to post here.
So that I can keep statements of interest all in one place, please post to the original thread on the Just a Game Community.
Thank you in advance.
Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green
I’m looking to start a playtest for my current Powered by the Apocalypse build of Just a Game which is a hack aiming at reproducing stories such as those found in Sword Art Online; Ready, Player One; Log Horizon; Snow Crash; Captain Power; and so on.
This will be a Play by Post game run via Google Docs and I want the posting schedule to be at least a post a week but depending on RL issues, I may post more than once in a week if I see everyone has responded before the week has passed.
I will be keeping track of mechanical stuff in comments on the doc so I can have an easy reference for what happened at what point.
I would like somewhere between 3 and 6 players. I plan to look for interested parties for the next 3 weeks or until I get 6 players, whichever happens first, and then start in on world-building and character-creation via a G-Doc. We’ll start with world-building as that could affect the character concepts people have. At least one of the current persona-books may be inappropriate for some campaign concepts.
I’ll be sharing this across to a couple of places but asking people to comment on this original message in the community for the game. (to the 9 people that are already members, yay! activity…though I know some of you would prefer I had started developing the Fate and/or GUMSHOE rulesets first). Anybody that wants to join the Community yay.
I’ll be posting weekly updates pasted from the G-Doc playtest to the Community as well for commentary and discussion in the “Actual Play” section.
(as a side note, I’ve been thinking about using my unused patreon for playtest materials rather than drivethruRPG, it feels more appropriate)
The first playtest packet has a lot of my essays on the genre in general and the second packet more focuses on the overall agenda of the game and the mechanics of the PbtA build.
After my summer three-episode demo, I’ve already got some doubts on using Bonds (a la Worlds in Peril) but will continue to use them for now. As three demo episodes is too little for me to abandon that right away.
I don’t have a particular target yet, but am doing a general test run to see if the gears work together, if they fail to catch or if they grind and break. As problem areas get revealed (which may be my GMing, admittedly), I’ll start to focus more on those.
The playtest packets are at my publisher page on drivethruRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4131/Thrythlind-Books-and-Games
They are pay what you want and my general assumption is that most people download them for free. I will admit that most of my drivethruRPG profits go to cost of living and occasionally RPGs that look like they have interesting mechanics I can use for something else. I’ll do a full kickstarter when I get playtesting done and am ready to make the final production, commission art and the like.
Until then, I’ll continue using the art of my expansive RPG list of my RPG heroines of the past and other things I own the copyrights too.
The original playtest packet is here: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153922/Just-a-Game–Playtest-Packet
The current Powered by the Apocalypse build is here: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/182206/Just-a-Game–Playtest-Packet–PbtA-Version-2
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4131/Thrythlind-Books-and-Games