Underkoffler's Overviews: Xenolithik "CharGen Playtest"

[chadu]

This Overview is going to be another off-model one for a couple reasons:

1. Xenolithik is my own game-in-design-hell.

2. I'm talking about playtesting and workshopping more than the actual game here.

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Comments

critique style

[oletheros]

that's why i prefer your critiques, chad - because i know you're going to be brutally honest about all of the right things. more importantly, you're going to give me justification about why you have the opinions you have.

and i agree with fred. this is exactly what you've been needing - a game you produce for fun and not profit.

[reverancepavane]

Sounds like fun. So when are you going to be down in Oz?
[Oh well. I'll probably make it to Dreamnation some century, just probably not this one.]

[just_the_ash]

I can write and design for fun. Just for fun.

*cough* IthinkImayhavesaidjustthatwithinthepastfewmonths *cough* likeseveraltimes *cough*

Sorry, I think Gren's hair is getting me from 166 miles away. Pass the inhaler. ;D

[chadu]

You should know by now that it takes repeated attempts to get certain things into my headguts.

Usually three, from different sources.

[just_the_ash]

DOODLE MOAR. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7912671.stm

[drivingblind]

Part of the value I think I offer you as your publisher is not only publishing your stuff, but also removing the publication imperative from your world-view. If we *need* to publish something, we'll talk about that. But otherwise? You signed up with us so you could be freer to pursue your art in the way you most enjoy. So really all I was saying on that car ride back was -- hey, go do that.

[nikotesla]

Totally, man.

"Independence" means that you do things for your own reasons. You don't answer to anyone.

I'm chewing on some games that might not be publishable in a large-scale way, myself. I really like making products, so they might get there, but some are clearly not going to make that.

On the other hand, that chat with Jared about Xenon: made it really start to look like something people would want.

[nikotesla]

"Dro" is short for "Drozdalski", which is his last name. I don't remember, and no one uses, his first name.

That game needs focus or breadth. The rules need to be tools the players can use to make things happen. Right now, I don't see where to gain traction.

[tundra_no_caps]

Radek.