Playtest 1In my last update I said I would be playtesting the Slumbering Castle at Total Con 40, but I chickened out because I didn't feel I had enough to go off of. Now I have finally tested this adventure at a different convention (Nerdfest). The playtest went fairly well, and I ended up with plenty of notes. What Happened?At the start of the session I gave players a crude map of the kingdom revealing the back entrance of the brook. This was a last second decision and a mistake as players immediately believed this to be the best way into the kingdom. 3 bandits were waiting in the lowlands along the brook, in ambush for folk leaving the kingdom to take their treasure. They ambushed the party and killed them within a few rounds. The players found this amusing and asked to re-use the same characters and attempt to enter through the front gate. They re-entered through the front gate and explored the kingdom on the path to the castle, slowly losing stamina (the stamina loss rate seemed…
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