Playtest

Tonight I'll be running D&D for (presumably) random strangers.

I've finished writing the tournament module for the 2025 Cauldron convention and need to test it. Around the Table Game Pub in Edmonds has an open table "D&D" night on Wednesdays from 6pm till close, and they've told me there's space for me to run a game. 

We'll see if anyone shows up.

[I am suddenly reminded of the first time I tried to run a B/X game at my...now defunct...local game shop and having no one appear. When was that? Oh, yeah: August 8th, 2010, almost 15 years ago. Perhaps history will repeat itself...at least this time I was able to leave a couple messages on the shop's discord channel]

My own players (my kids) want me to run the game for them next Friday (when we have their friends over for a sleepover) and I will, but as this is the tournament adventure for the con -- and will be run by more DMs than just myself -- I'd like to get it tested as early and often as possible before I release it 'into the wild.' 

One VERY interesting thing: the "open D&D night" is open to all editions of the game but MOST people that show up are running/playing 5E. Taking a 1E adventure to Cauldron (where the people are expecting 1E) or running the game for my players (who know what to expect) is going to be a different experience from having to "re-train" 5E players on the fly. Yeah...I'm very interested to see how this turns out.

Hopefully, people will show up.

Regardless, I'll post a follow-up telling how things went.

; )