Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023)

Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by pwatsonwailes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:18AM (#34624143)

Project Description: D&D with less fighting and more trolly problems.

I'm building a non-combat focused TTRPG. Happy to give any HN readers a free account to play around with. There's no VTT element and there's no plan to build one; instead it's focused on group storytelling and logging the story, rather than combat and world management.

The world and rule set is very much built to be around levelling the playing field so the GM isn't expected to buy everything and be the centre of the world. Instead, players have as much agency as the GM does, and the world lore is free to access.

Registration link - https://triumvene.com/#/portal/register

Contact info - pete at watson-wail dot es

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by mkl on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:39AM (#34624790)

I think you mean "trolley", but "trolly" might also make sense in this context.

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by pwatsonwailes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:51AM (#34624882)

Fixed. Cheers!

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by Felkomo on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:27AM (#34625128)

Took me way to long to figure out what ttrpg is. Just feedback:)

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by pwatsonwailes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:28AM (#34625137)

There's an element of, if you don't know the acronym, then at this point you're not the market. Longer term, I'll want it to be generalist, but in the same way as as a dev I'll use terminology to help people select into "this is relevant to me or not", TTRPG serves a similar purpose here.

You're not wrong though. For anyone wondering, table-top role playing game.

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by Felkomo on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:38AM (#34625219)

Yes could be.

But you are not worried that this can also act as an entry barrier/gatekeeping thing?

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Re:Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023) by pwatsonwailes on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:49AM (#34625313)

Nope. It's a market targeting thing. I don't have the resource to deal with people who haven't played before, as well as people who have. For beta testers, if someone hasn't played a TTRPG before, they're not suitable. They wouldn't have anything to compare to.

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