Mon 3 Sep 2007
gateway playtests
Posted by alex under playtest
As I said, the con was great and I had 3 opportunities to playtest the game.
Brendon will be posting 2 AP’s, so I won’t go into the games too much other then to say they were great, give a breif description, and provide the premise.
‘Winter Gulch’ -
Was about a group of settlers in the old west that were trapped in a perpetual winter for “offending” the land in someway.
- Premise: “Winter Gulch cursed by the land for settling it. Can they find peace?”
(Ender’s Game meets the Matrix) - this game didn’t actually get played.
The second game was a bizzare story that kind of melded enders game with the matrix.
- Premise: “They were trained to survive the enemy, but can they survive themselves?” (In an engineered environment without the emotional or intellectual maturity to do so.)
(The EU vs China) -
The third game we almost played (just Brendon and I) was an espionage game that took place in the near future were the US is falling and the EU are struggling for power. We were each going to play characters that opposed each other.
- Premise: “America has stumbled. The EU and China are fighting for dominance over it”
(A medeival society vs itself and aliens!) -
this story focused on the ambitions of two characters that were attempting to secure their place.
- Premise: “A trouble noble house confronts strangers from the stars in need.”