If you like what you read here, please contribute to our Patreon. You can also join us for games on Twitch every Friday at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
PLAYTEST FOR JUNE 2, 2024
We’re trying to push the game in a new direction – or at least see if pushing it in a new direction is a good idea – and that all started Sunday.
Sazzy has some massive battles planned for this chapter of the game, and our current theatre of the mind rules simply can’t support them. Therefore, Sazzy wants to experiment with using maps instead.
Our playtesters are spread across North America, unfortunately, so that may present a challenge. However, Sazzy was able to turn Discord’s whiteboard feature into a rough-and-ready virtual desktop. They even spent Saturday evening drawing tokens for all the player characters and some of the nonplayer characters. Much of Sunday’s session was getting everyone used to the whiteboard interface.
There wasn’t much action on Sunday, though. We’re bringing in two brand new players, and the time we didn’t spend getting used to Discord’s whiteboard was spent travelling to an aco colony where we met our last new character, a heavy labor model aco and miner named John Lorde. With our first and only human Vergil Duke, a heavyworlder survivalist with a hunting dog, our party is complete!
They’re going to be hitting a Rekana scrapping site soon, hopefully this Sunday. We’ll let you know how it goes next week.
Radio Free Covenant - A Podcast about the Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game "Covenant" and Urban Fantasy Novel "Crossing the Line" 