{"id":160,"date":"2016-10-25T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:57:19","slug":"archwizard-playtesting-at-protospiel-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/2016\/10\/archwizard-playtesting-at-protospiel-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"Archwizard Playtesting at Protospiel Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protospiel Madison was a huge success.\u00a0 In addition to playing some really fun games from other designers, I <a href=\"https:\/\/tabletop.events\/conventions\/protospiel-madison-2016\/prototypes\/archwizard\">playtested about 4.5 hours of Archwizard<\/a>.\u00a0 We broke the game twice and made some significant improvements. I had one group play for 3.5 straight hours before the end of the day \u2013 they helped move the game forward tremendously because we saved time not going through the rules and got a lot of play time in.\u00a0 We tested the epic spell cards and variable player powers for the first time successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Some changes of note:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Draw one die from central pool in reverse turn order at the beginning of each round (if available)<\/li>\n<li>New elimination alternative victory. First Wizard to cast 3 epic spells wins.<\/li>\n<li>Turn order tokens added \u2013 this was a simple, but huge improvement.<\/li>\n<li>Enchant 2 dice each instead of 1 during the enchantment phase.<\/li>\n<li>No dice in hand at the end of the round = elimination (must play balance between enchanted dice and non-enchanted dice).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Still need to better clarify how\/when spells apply, and how various powers can preempt other cards.<\/p>\n<p>So not a complete overhaul, but significant changes that keep the game fast-paced and fun.\u00a0 It is still deliciously devious \u2013 loose alliances and subtle manipulation is still a must.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to Protospiel Madison next year when I can move the game from Alpha to Beta and beyond!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protospiel Madison was a huge success.\u00a0 In addition to playing some really fun games from other designers, I playtested about 4.5 hours of Archwizard.\u00a0 We broke the game twice and made some significant improvements. I had one group play for 3.5 straight hours before the end of the day \u2013 they helped move the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}