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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
PLAYTEST
We had another playtest on Sunday. Not too much happened. We introduced some new player characters and didn’t make any bids or use any of the rules. All the action was behind the camera.
Sazzy is a fan of a science fiction universe called The Nature of Predators (*NOP*) by Space Paladin (Reddit here, Patreon here) and has made a lot of friends on the NOP Discord server. They had the idea of creating characters from the NOP universe in the *Covenant* universe, which isn’t a bad idea. It gets some of our new friends involved in the game but, from a playtest perspective, it will also prove if material from other intellectual properties can be used in Covenant.
We need to note right now, though, that this isn’t an official expansion to the game, nor is it being done with Space Paladin’s permission. We also don’t intend to sell any NOP-based material without the permission and input of Space Paladin. This is just for our playtest.
As Sazzy pointed out during this week’s Twitch stream, one of the reasons why Dungeons & Dragons is so popular is because you strip out the setting (which is minimal at best) and use it to play games from other intellectual properties or even make up your own. If Covenant is able to do the same thing, then it will help make the case for the game’s commercial viability.
It looks like it’s going well, too. Sean wrote a quick backstory questionnaire, the kind used to make other Covenant characters, for a skalgan, one of the species in NOP. They look like tall, muscular sheep with reinforced skulls for headbutting. Not only did the player create their own character on their own, they were also able to make their character’s equipment with the rules in the Covenant rulebook. They even made their character’s headbutt natural attack. This bodes well for the game’s overall viability, too, since the game’s creators won’t have to hold the players’ hands when they make their characters. Now if we can just get more people to make their characters on their own…
That’s it for tonight, though. We’ll be back next Monday with more Covenant news. Talk to you then.
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