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Designer vs. Reality
Playtesting RPGs
Host: Dan Maruschak

A podcast about designing tabletop RPGs, focusing on Actual Play recordings of playtest sessions.

Episode Name Time Release Date Description
Episode 8: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 6B 2:57:11 06/21/2010 Continuing the story from episode 7, this is another playtest of Final Hour of a Storied Age rev 0.61 with Lance Allen of Wolves Den Publishing, Lenny Balsera the Lead System Designer for the Dresden Files RPG, and Dan Maruschak the game’s designer and host of the podcast. 0:00:00 Intro and...
Episode 7: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 6A 2:46:37 06/17/2010 A playtest session of Final Hour of a Storied Age rev 0.61. The players are Lance Allen of Wolves Den Publishing, Lenny Balsera the Lead System Developer for the Dresden Files RPG, and Dan Maruschak the designer of the game. 0:00:00 Intro and banter 0:10:45 Start playing the game 1:28:37 Chapter...
Episode 6: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 5 2:28:47 05/18/2010 A playtest session of Final Hour of a Storied Age rev 0.6. For some commentary on rule mistakes we made during the session, check out the companion blog post which summarizes this session in text form. 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:31 Start Seed Creation 0:48:58 Character Creation 1:01:35 Chapter 1 1:32:11...
Episode 5: ReCoil Playtest 1 3:24:06 04/09/2010 A playtest session of ReCoil by Lance Allen. In ReCoil, you play spirits of the dead who must possess humans still living in the mortal coil in order to fight off the minions of Oblivion who are trying to unmake reality. 0:00:00 Intro 0:03:05 Character Creation Begins 0:09:07 Conviction 0:14:33...
Episode 4: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 4 2:29:47 03/12/2010 A playtest session of Final Hour of a Storied Age. 0:00:00 Show intro and player introductions 0:03:44 Game setup begins 0:10:33 Create star charts 0:12:04 Read completed seeds aloud 0:13:02 Determine protagonist, antagonist, and main plot 0:26:16 Begin drawing map 0:29:27 Detail plot...
Episode 3: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 3 2:34:42 01/06/2010 The third playtest session of Final Hour of a Storied Age. 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:00 Session Begins 0:26:05 Begin Map Creation 0:34:28 Finalize Plot Outline 0:43:13 Chapter 1 0:53:21 Chapter 2 1:02:50 Chapter 3 1:14:28 Chapter 4 1:26:33 Chapter 5 1:37:37 Chapter 6 1:50:56 Chapter 7 1:56:39 Chapter...
Episode 2: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 2 3:18:50 12/21/2009 The second playtest session of Final Hour of a Storied Age: A Roleplaying Game of Epic Fantasy.
Episode 1: Final Hour of a Storied Age Playtest 1 3:18:38 12/21/2009 A playtest of Final Hour of a Storied Age: A Roleplaying Game of Epic Fantasy.
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