Category: Monster of the Week Roadhouse: General Discussion

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

I’m most looking for here is playtesters.

The projects aims at recreating stuff like Sword Art Online, Tron or Log Horizon…stories where people get stuck in a virtual world or an alternate universe that looks similar to a particular game.

While I did not create rules for it, stories switching between virtual and physical worlds are a plan down the line if the project garners enough interest.

Rules are included for Fate Core, GUMSHOE and Powered by the Apocalypse.

SRDs would be necessary to play these rules and this is aimed at people already familiar with the systems. (PbtA doesn’t have an SRD as such, but if you have no experience with it, I suggest starting with Monster of the Week or Spirit of 77 in relation to this packet as that was what I took a lot of the basic design ideas from.)

Note, I have a fair amount of experience playing, running and designing with Fate. I have some experience with PbtA and I have little experience with GUMSHOE, so I will probably have made the most system errors with that third set of rules. Suggestions for all three are appreciated.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153922/Just-a-Game–Playtest-Packet

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153922/Just-a-Game–Playtest-Packet

new poll on my last, fourth slot for October’s Virtuacon 2015

Originally shared by Thrythlind aka Luke Green

So currently the confirmed choices are:

Divine Blood Accelerated (DB setting, FAE adapted): Don’t Let the Sun Go Down

Monster of the Week: Tournament of Fate

A Loss of Life: GUMSHOE

So now what for the fourth slot?

Divine Blood – A Day at the Fair

Brief: Comedic slice of life scenario from last year’s Virtuacon dealing with smarmy reporters, high school competitions and supernatural puberty issues.

Divine Blood – Occult Investigation scenario

Brief: Mid power level investigations in to occult occurrences within the world. Most likely dealing with Psyche freelancers.

Divine Blood – Military scenario

Brief: Upright pilots, spec-ops or other military types have a battle have a mission to run in the war-torn areas of Eastern Europe.

Just a Game – Fate Core Version

Brief: Trapped in an MMO game type settings, similar to Sword Art Online, Log Horizon or Tron.

Just a Game – Powered by Apocalypse Version

Brief: Trapped in an MMO game type settings, similar to Sword Art Online, Log Horizon or Tron.

I have a book in mind for covering stories along the lines of Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, Tron, Dungeons and Dragons cartoon and other “trapped in the game” style things.

I’ve got some basic rules and suggestions for running such a game using Fate Core, Powered by the Apocalypse and GUMSHOE. This includes some basic discussion of the different variations of the theme that exist and some character creation rules.

At the moment, I’m also gearing up to try and playtest a Fate-Core rendition of my Divine Blood game with my normal playtesters. Which makes it a bit difficult for me to find time to set up playtests of this other concept since I’m a one-person set-up and have a full time job otherwise.

I’m considering putting up a playtest packet, and announcing it as such, for Pay-What-You-Want on drivethru and giving a link to it to the various gamer communities I’m part of.  At the moment, I’m waiting on a single piece of art I commissioned to be finished.

The playtest packet would be upfront saying its not yet a full game and would require other books to play it (Fate Core, GUMSHOE and I’m going to suggest Monster of the Week).  I also plan on including a questionnaire format in the back for people to send me feedback.

Does this sound like a good idea? 

On the one hand, I’ve got more mechanics and mood/setting suggestions than some complete games I’ve seen for sale.  On the other hand, I’ve never seen anybody put up a playtest thing before so I’m uncertain how this would go.

Going to post this on a couple of communities.