RangerWickett
Legend
I'm right now drafting the overall plot of the next E.N. Publishing campaign saga. Prepping a series of adventures that run from 1st to 30th level is a pretty massive task, and while Russ and I think we've got some exciting things planned, I want to test-run them past a few players before we set anything in stone.
This won't be a full playtest. Rather, it would be more like a series of brainstorming sessions. I'll pick 5 people, give you access to a private forum, and send you each the rough draft of the campaign's player's guide.
You'll make up character concepts -- no stats, just a basic gist of who you are, what motivates you, how you got into the current situation, and where you'd like to take your character in the long term -- to help ground you in the plot.
Then, day by day, I'd post the general details of each scene of the campaign, and ask how you respond. You'd all be part of the same party, so we'd get a (sped-up) run through the whole campaign. I would tell you what all of the combats and skill challenges are, but rather than roll dice and play through them, we'd assume you win them all in appropriately cool and heroic ways.
The focus here is on the narrative, so that hopefully with a few weeks of casual collaboration, you'd get to experience a cool story (in synopsis form), and I'd be able to find out where we have plot holes, or what needs more fleshing out, so that the people who end up devoting months or years of game time to the campaign have the best experience possible.
I know the holidays are coming up, and while I'm not too too picky and needy (after all, you'll be doing me a big favor), I would prefer people who'd be able to post fairly regularly. If there's a huge interest, I might do one group now, then run a second through in January as the beta testers. And if you've done game writing and might be interested in scribing one of these adventures, that would be an even greater plus, since it would make it that much easier to explain the project to the adventure authors.
(We won't have any sort of official NDA, but I do hope that anyone who gets involved in this has the decency not to share secret information publicly.)
If you're interested, or if you have any questions, let me know.
This won't be a full playtest. Rather, it would be more like a series of brainstorming sessions. I'll pick 5 people, give you access to a private forum, and send you each the rough draft of the campaign's player's guide.
You'll make up character concepts -- no stats, just a basic gist of who you are, what motivates you, how you got into the current situation, and where you'd like to take your character in the long term -- to help ground you in the plot.
Then, day by day, I'd post the general details of each scene of the campaign, and ask how you respond. You'd all be part of the same party, so we'd get a (sped-up) run through the whole campaign. I would tell you what all of the combats and skill challenges are, but rather than roll dice and play through them, we'd assume you win them all in appropriately cool and heroic ways.
The focus here is on the narrative, so that hopefully with a few weeks of casual collaboration, you'd get to experience a cool story (in synopsis form), and I'd be able to find out where we have plot holes, or what needs more fleshing out, so that the people who end up devoting months or years of game time to the campaign have the best experience possible.
I know the holidays are coming up, and while I'm not too too picky and needy (after all, you'll be doing me a big favor), I would prefer people who'd be able to post fairly regularly. If there's a huge interest, I might do one group now, then run a second through in January as the beta testers. And if you've done game writing and might be interested in scribing one of these adventures, that would be an even greater plus, since it would make it that much easier to explain the project to the adventure authors.
(We won't have any sort of official NDA, but I do hope that anyone who gets involved in this has the decency not to share secret information publicly.)
If you're interested, or if you have any questions, let me know.
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