Hello there in Internet Land and welcome once again to the D&E Podcast. I'm your host Mike Merles and with me today is Rodney Thompson. Hello. So this is a special edition of the podcast. Now with time available and stuff notwithstanding

hopefully we can do this more often but you may with time available and stuff notwithstanding.

Hopefully we can do this more often.

But you may have noticed that last Friday,

we ran a D&D game that we live streamed on the internet on

Twitch TV.

And this podcast is essentially a follow-up to that, kind of captures some of the processes

we go through when we're assessing the game as we work on it, where we play tests, then we talk

about the game. It's, sometimes we will if we're just

playing to play test we'll stop and talk about a rules point or something. A lot of

times too when we're actually doing play tests they're a lot different than the

game that you saw.

We have stress tests and Roddy why don't you talk a little bit about the stress test concept?

Our stress testing process is a lot like playtesting super intensified. Basically what we do is we'll go into a

stress test with certain goals, certain mechanics we want to analyze and we will

really hammer on those mechanics without a lot of the stuff that goes around that portion of

the role-playing game. So for example if we really want to test how well a

certain class is doing in combat we will basically jump right in and do many back to back combat,

super intense testing this specific mechanic or this specific monster or something

like that. And it basically is one of our mantra is if we start slowing down we say too much

real playing keep going keep going right because you know all of our natural

tendencies are to to fall into stuff like that but if we're testing you know the this classes

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