We’ve gone and done it! Just like I threatened, last weekend I had a chance to test run Dreadship at our group’s gaming weekend. The game was certainly fun; I ran Gradient Descent in one-shot mode, with the players as artifact hunters trying to get a big score and retire. As far as Dreadship is concerned, though, the playtest revealed a few things about the game’s workings. Thanks to both my own evaluation and feedback from my players, I know what I’d do differently in the future.

This is one of the first playtests that I’ve run, so I also learned a lot about the process. Most importantly, seeing the process in action is likely to make it easier for me to test new rules and games in the future. So with that all said, how did mashing up Mothership with a Jenga tower actually work?