D-3 General Playtest Guidelines

[RLittles]

Playtesting can be a fun and rewarding experience. Not only do you get a first hand glimpse at what’s coming up, but you get to help with the development of a game supplement. There will be a thread in the General Discussion forum for D-3 Games and for the world of Inceptum Terminus for people to sign up to be a part of the playtest. Only a limited number of people are allowed to participate, so please sign up if you’re truly interested. Those that accepted into the playtest must be willing to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. All commentary on the book must be posted in the appropriate playtest forum.

An author may ask you specific questions like the ones listed below and a playtester should fill them out at the appropriate forum.

• Do the rules work? (The rules should be easy to use and understand.)
• Do they pass the "reality check?" (The reality of the worlds is dependent upon what the author intends for their world. One author may prefer a very realistic setting while another is going for the realism found in movies.)
• Is the text easy to read and understand?
• Is it FUN?
• Is it what you expected? (better? worse?)
• Does the author exclude any elements you wanted to see? (Elements can be anything from genre specific to items and equipment.)
• Does he include anything you found irrelevant or unnecessary? (Is there too much information that doesn’t belong?)
• If the draft seems long, what should we cut or trim? (Redundant information does sneak into books.)
• What should we absolutely not take out?
• If you see rules problems, how would you solve them?
• Do these rules take the system in any directions that we may regret later? (In other words, do the rules we write for the game system used in the book are overly complex or not well done that could be a detriment later on?)
• What kind of characters did your group make?
• What kind of scenarios did you run?
• Did the game, in your opinion, lend itself easily to your enjoyment and ideas? Whether yes or no, why do you think so? (Please list some examples.)

A word of warning is that all the manuscripts are unedited and not proofread, so refrain from editing or proofreading the draft that you receive. Please let us know if there is a grievous error like the price of a weapon is outrageous or a sentence is unclear feel free to let us know about them so we can edit them promptly.

To sign up you must provide either myself or Jason with an email address in a private message or you can give it in the sign up thread.