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Friday Arena Playtest
🕑 Added 2020-05-13 02:53:59 +0000 UTCAn exciting update to Friday's stream, we'll be running a playtest stream! This will be consist of me and 2 volunteers taking on an Arena created by my good D&D friend, The Arena Guy (TAG).
What's an Arena? It's a game mode created by TAG that is essentially a combat challenge mode of D&D. It's great fun for many, and it's a great way to do some combat playtesting.
For the first run, it will be 3 challengers, which means I need to find 2 brave souls willing to tackle the Arena with me.
Here's what you need to Volunteer:
- Available from 10 pm GMT/6pm EDT/3 pm PDT for ~3 hours on Friday May 15th. Please only volunteer if you are reasonably sure you can make that and stay for about 3 hours, preferably a little longer just to be safe.
- The ability to play on roll20 with Voice Chat through Discord. You don't need to know Roll20 (I don't!), but if you know nothing about it, please try to brush up on the basics beforehand (I will be). I recommend this video by another D&D friend, The Dungeon Coach.
- You do not need a video, just a mic and the ability to hear.
- The want to play an Arena playtest game!
Here's what you are volunteering for!
- This is an Arena mode, not normal D&D. It is effectively just combat. You don't need make a backstory, and you don't need to be in character, though we'll probably have a bit of fun here and there. This isn't a story driven session with a plot - it's just nonsense fighting monsters in a pit. The goal is to have fun, roll some virtual dice, and see how things play out.
- The hope is to Playtest my stuff, TAG's Arena System, and have fun.
- This will be streamed! By me and maybe TAG. This isn't a big audiance, but you will be on stream - by volunteering you agreeing to do nothing that'd get me or TAG in trouble!
Character Creation
- You will need to make level 1 character and be prepared to quickly level it through levels 1-5, so have a plan. We may not make it level 5, and we might make it 6 or beyond (unlikely in time) but at least have a solid 1 to 5 plan.
- No backstory or character info is really necessary besides their class. I'll have a bit of fun here and there in character, but this isn't a normal RP Story Driven Plot... it's just some heroes fighting monsters in a pit for reasons they cannot fathom.
- A very limited pool of magic items exist in this system. Don't plan around anything fancy.
- You can use: PHB, SCAG, XGE, MToF, Volo's, or any KibblesTasty class or subclass. Feel free to reach out to me with questions. If you want to use a race or other system of mine, we'll talk. For now we are focused on the classes and subclasses :)
- I will play be joining you guys with a PHB-made character to serve as our playtest control group :D
- You level up after every fight, but you do not automatically take a short or long rest - you can recover resources via them by spending the points you are awarded - we'll walk you through it as we play (and by we I mean TAG, because this is my first time playing it too!)
Here's How You Volunteer:
- REPLY TO THIS POST THAT YOU WANT IN! Leave a comment telling me you'd like to join during the day on Wednesday. I will select two volunteers tomorrow night in around 24 hours 11 pm EDT/8 pm PDT
- If there is more than 2 volunteers, I'll pick patrons first. If there's more than 2 patron volunteers, I'll pick randomly. If there are less than 2 volunteers, I'll draft some of my players to fill the empty spots. If you miss out, don't worry. There will be more things like this in the future! And probably with less tech issues than this one will have...
- If we do these in the future, I will come up with a more complicated weighting system based on if you've gotten picked before, patron tier, and other stuff, but as this is sort of short notice, for this time it'll just be a random draw.
- You do not have to make a character unless you are selected! Though you are welcome to if you want to.
We will almost certainly do more of these of these, or more things like this in the future. I cannot promise TAGs time (though I can hope for it!) but they will be some sort of future run like this in the future, so if you miss this one, you'll have a shot at those :)
I will start the Friday Stream about half an hour and work on stuff and hang out a bit before the Arena starts, and than we will start the Arena run at my usual stream start time.
Comments
KibblesTasty
Just to be transparent; my hope is to run something like this in the next week or two (which I will probably DM, as I cannot keep hogging TAGs time!). If/when we do that, the other 4 volunteers are the first in line if they can make it. It would be roughly at the same time (Friday 10pm GTM/6pm EDT/3pm PDT). If there's enough interest I am thinking about doing this every other week (with me, TAG, or maybe other guests DMing as availability dictates - I love the idea and I'm really happy to see so many volunteers, so I'd love to keep the idea going!)
KibblesTasty
Alright; volunteer entry will be closed for this round! As there are 6 volunteers, I'm going to roll a d6 twice to pick the challengers for this playtest! 5! Callum Sim 5!.. uh... rerolling... 4! Verixa Okblek Assuming the two of you can make it, you'll be our challenges for the first Friday Playtest! If for some reason either you cannot make it or plans change, please let me know ASAP so I can see if another challenger can step forward! :) Please confirm your availability sometime tomorrow - if I don't hear from you by Thursday night I'll look for a new volunteer and pencil you in for a future one. If you didn't get selected this time, do not worry! We will definitely do something like this or something like this again in the future (maybe the not too distant future!) I very much appreciate your volunteering :)
Eliot
Yes please, I am so in! I'd love to flesh out my DMPC from one of my campaigns. I'm playing a Psionic Kenku that wants to fly and get their real voice back [not just the one in their mind]. Alternatively I'd play a gnome warsmith or try out a warlord [never played one before].
Callum Sim
Oh buddy. I’m so in! What a good idea
Verixa Okblek
Definitely interested in joining :D.
I would love to play. Might try a Thundersmith build.
I'm totes in, I wanna play your Soul Knife Monk
