Alchemy Playtest!

Custom Potions Playest

This newest playtest video includes me teaching my playtesters how to make their own custom potions. The system got good reviews. The new opportunity system continues to work well, but players wanted a bit more challenge - so edits to the Opportunity Table have been made accordingly.

Hiveworld

In this playtest, the players have landed on a Moon that is being converted by the Moon Mason Bees into a hive. To their surprise, once there they find a life Support Bubble - hosting a lab with some dark secrets. See an acid environment where the players will race against the clock to find clues and sustain the life support shield.

Most Recent Edits

• Opportunity Die table has been edited to increase risk
• Losing opporunity does not end the scene. Instead, losing opportunity causes 1d8 stamina to be lost. Then, on each round thereafter players must test their remaining stamina to avoid losing an addition d6 stamina. Players do not have to retreat - they can push their luck as long as they want. (Until they die)
• Based on recommendation for playtesters, there is now a damage system for pets (it is in the Optional Rules section for time time being)
• Only Pets can be mutated, as mutating humans clashes (at least by ethical heroes) with the world’s lore.
• Creature names have been edited to add more flavor. Names include “The Moon Mason Bee”, “Comet Recluse Spider” and “Lupus Planetae Rex”
• Map images in books no longer show hexes. The most recent playtest confirmed that squares work better.
• Mutating a Pet causes that Pet to count as 2 against your Pet Stat when determining the max Pets you can own.
• Inventions now count as Bots against your Bot stat.
• Space Travel Times Chart has been edited
• Edits throughout

Season Finale

Next weekend my players and I will be going into the Hive itself to see if they can find the key to stabilizing the life support shields of Demeter VI. It is sure to be exciting!