Escape from the Deadly Menagerie (Advanced Race Guide Playtest) (Inactive)

Game Master Jeff Lee

A game to playtest the new race rules using a variety of characters made with 10 to 30 point race builds.



Male Human(ish) Level 7 RPG Monkey

So here's our thread for general feedback and discussion. Anything we go over here I'll formulate into coherent and hopefully useful feedback for the playtest forum.

I'll start off by asking about your initial reaction to the race generation system itself. How was it? Did anything initially strike you as good/bad/odd/confusing?

Shadow Lodge

Well, I liked. The only thing I noticed that I didn't like was the fact you had to be Fey to be Tiny.


Male Human(ish) Level 7 RPG Monkey
Dragonborn3 wrote:
Well, I liked. The only thing I noticed that I didn't like was the fact you had to be Fey to be Tiny.

Yeah, that's a good point. Someone else brought up something similar, that you need to have the goblinoid subtype to get the Sneaky quality. Myself, I'm not sure there need to be those sorts of limitations.

Shadow Lodge

If you go to the blog, it talks about a lot of the restrictions being changed or removed all together, as well as an actual dragon type. So good stuff is on the way.


Male Weremonkey Rogue/Ranger/Trickster

I'm glad to see those restrictions and limitations going away.

One thing I hope they add/fix is to increase the levels of spells allowed for the SLA trait. It's not super important and should be limited, but you should really be able to build a Drow Noble, which technically you can't currently, even though it's an example race.


Sorry about being away. I've been busy at work and trying to manage the recruitment thread for my campaign, and I've gotten a little behind in my playing threads.


Male Human(ish) Level 7 RPG Monkey

S'okay. You broke Je'grik free from his cage and gained yourself an improvised cold iron flail, just in time to help defend one of your new-found companions from some fellow prisoners that want to bash his head in with rocks.


Male Human(ish) Level 7 RPG Monkey

Feeling a bit under the weather, folks, so I'm not really very "game on" at the moment. I'll try to post tonight or tomorrow when I'm feeling a bit better.


Male Human(ish) Level 7 RPG Monkey

Well, I'm shutting this one down. Play has been too slow to make a playtest of the new rules worthwhile.

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