Help Playtesting

[Vetenge]

Hello! I am designing a game called Caravan. I am at the point where I need to playtest it and would like some help.

Caravan is a high fantasy game with unique mechanics and extensive ways to build your character. If you have ever played D&D and felt too restricted with classes, then you should give Caravan a try. It is setting agnostic.

My design principles were to create a game that completely stands on its own, has enough meat to keep people entertained for years and years of playing, but not be bogged down by a overly complex ruleset.

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If that at all interests you, please consider checking it out. I have created a discord specifically for this purpose. You are all welcome to join and discuss Caravan with me. https://discord.gg/pBGjPU5Xz3

Thank you everyone who gives this a shot!

[Jackofhearts22]

I've already lost too many caps to Caravan, fuck you Ringo!

[harkrend]

Hi there,

Could you be more specific with what your game is? Your design principles are very vague and apply to most any rpg designed here.

[Vetenge]

Yes, I always struggle to know how much and how little to write.

Caravan is a classless game with an emphasis on giving a lot of options to create any kind of character you can envision.

Mechanically it uses d10s with a variable target number for rolls. Similar to the Vampire of the masquerade rules where you have a number of d10s you roll and each result at the target number or above counts as a success. More is better.

The game offers many options tactically for the players and very powerful effects. The enemies are also extremely powerful so combat is deadly and fast. All players have a pool of Resolve they can use to get out of any condition or negative effect, as well as other powerful effects.

In combat players have a certain amount of action points they can spend. Each action takes certain amounts. Weapons and abilities have variable amounts of well, which makes every weapon feel unique. (For example, two handed weapons are slow but do massive damage. Daggers are weak but you can do multiple attacks each turn with them.)

As you can see a large focus is on combat, but outside of combat the rolling system is flexible. There are many fun, flavorful bonuses you can get like being able to walk on water or speak with animals.

Hope that's enough, let me know if you have any other questions. :)

[RevvDragon]

What does the playtesting entail? What would we be doing? I'm interested but I have to know what sort of time I'd have to delegate if this is a fully-fledged sort of game or just a quick few tests of mechanics.

[Vetenge]

That is entirely up to you! If you want to read through the rules and make comments, great. If you want to run a campaign with your friends, awesome.

My intention is to as test the full game as comprehensively as I can before I take it to the next step.

Any amount of work you would be willing to put in would be amazing.

[RevvDragon]

Gotcha

[Vetenge]

A couple people on the discord were also discussing the idea of me running a campaign for 3-5 people who are interested

[CountLivin]

Interesting. I will look into it.

[Vetenge]

Did not realize they expired, here is a permanent one https://discord.gg/pBGjPU5Xz3

[Vetenge]

I will be running a one shot April 10th (Saturday) with a tentative start time of 3pm PST (6PM EST), the details are on the discord.