Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition - Now your playing with Playtests!

[hamlet]

Hopefully they'll be doing a true open playtest rather than trying to make people sign agreements and the like.

If I can just get the material and use it, I'm definately going to put something together in person with some locals and give it a test drive.

Not really holding out high hopes, though.

[Scowling Dragon]

Realy, all they have to do to regain consumer trust is act like Roleplayers that care about the game their making, not like a corporation that cares about the money in my pocket.

So posting it up for everybody would be a nice gesture.

[kaomera]

When and how are we actualy getting the playtest material?

If you signed up for the email reminder you should have or be getting an email letting you know that the playtest documents are going up. You have to agree to the terms and prove you're a human, and then they'll send you info on getting the stuff a few hours early (mostly to ease server load by spreading things out I think). ''Later today'' the playtest materials should be available for everyone to get their grubby little electronic fingers on - hopefully the servers don't immediately melt...

[Ichneumon]

They've said it's a public beta, but you need to sign an agreement before having acces to it. Depending on the content of the beta, it wouldn't be too much of a problem. Although I'm expecting it to be limiting it to private use. It's a shame though, since I was planning on maybe starting a short play by post adventure on these boards to test things out. Don't think it will be allowed.

I am very much looking forward to 5e though, everything I've read looks very promising.

[Scowling Dragon]

Goddamit. Cant find a link.

[kaomera]

Goddamit. Cant find a link.

If you signed up you'll get an email - although they haven't gotten back to me with an actual download link yet and in 5 minutes I'll have to leave for work. The general access link isn't up yet, ''later today'' is what has been said.

[hamlet]

To be honest, I kind of hope that they wait until late this afternoon or even tomorrow. Can't actually get to the WOTC website here in the office and it'd be aggravating if I missed out because of a stupid Firewall.

[Scowling Dragon]

Got It! Yes Yes Yes Yes!

[Maxios]

How is it?!?!

[Scowling Dragon]

Its...Uh...Arriving in 60 minutes...

Also, thier agreement states that its allowed to discuss the game on any internet forum approved by them. Im not sure which ones they aprove.

[some guy]

My download link sends me to their Customer Service. And not only DMs must go through the sign-up process, also players. That makes it much harder for me to get a group of players interested in playtesting.

[Shades of Gray]

Am I only allowed to playtest it with other playtesters? Can I take this game to my regular group?

[hamlet]

Am I only allowed to playtest it with other playtesters? Can I take this game to my regular group?

That would be a question for WOTC to answer.

[Ichneumon]

Well, at least there is a public beta. Guess that's better than what we could've expected.

[DrBurr]

Well got my second email now to wait for the entire thing to be fixed

[Dienekes]

Am I only allowed to playtest it with other playtesters? Can I take this game to my regular group?

What are they gonna do, break into your basement and tell you to stop playing?

Though technically reading the NDA right now, it looks like no. You are not allowed to copy, display, or distribute the materials given. So each of your players would have to download it themselves. Seems an odd way to go about things.

Though you are allowed to publicly discuss your experience. So it looks like we're ok to talk about it here.

[Oracle_Hunter]

Though technically reading the NDA right now, it looks like no. You are not allowed to copy, display, or distribute the materials given. So each of your players would have to download it themselves. Seems an odd way to go about things.

Presumably they did this to (1) have a tight rein on their playtesters and (2) to ensure that they would get reviews from people that actually played the game.

How that turns out remains to be seen.

[ClothedInVelvet]

Got my packet. If you get your second email with the supposed link, go to wizards.custhelp.com and search for "Download playtest" and you should find a link. You'll have to search in the D&D results, but it's there if you're signed in.

Seems like a silly technical mistake for a bunch of nerds.

[Ichneumon]

Presumably they did this to (1) have a tight rein on their playtesters and (2) to ensure that they would get reviews from people that actually played the game.

How that turns out remains to be seen.

Would there really be people who'd hand in reviews without reading the play-test?

[Oracle_Hunter]

Would there really be people who'd hand in reviews without reading the play-test?

Have you seen the Edition Warz?

[Saph]

Well, got my first email. Apparently I should be getting the second in 30-60 minutes.

Am I the only one who really, really hates those illegible captchas?

[Bayonet Priest]

Am I the only one who really, really hates those illegible captchas?

Hah, same here. I got lucky, I could actually read the second captcha they gave me. I couldn't make heads or tails of the first one.

[DrBurr]

Well, got my first email. Apparently I should be getting the second in 30-60 minutes.

Am I the only one who really, really hates those illegible captchas?

I do to, I usually refresh until I get something that looks like a word

Got my packet. If you get your second email with the supposed link, go to wizards.custhelp.com and search for "Download playtest" and you should find a link. You'll have to search in the D&D results, but it's there if you're signed in.

Seems like a silly technical mistake for a bunch of nerds.

Not seeing this, I should probably stop reading tweets is driving me nuts

[some guy]

Alright, the 'search' thing didn't work. But in their twitter they had a few workarounds which worked after a bit of patience.

[Yora]

It's probably easier to wait until someone else uploads it somewhere and download it from there.

[DrBurr]

Alright, the 'search' thing didn't work. But in their twitter they had a few workarounds which worked after a bit of patience.

They just bring me back to the same error page

[Anecronwashere]

I just got the email!

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I'm so happy!!!

Ditto on the captcha stuff. I had to redo like 3 times and the 4th had like requaq and looked almost too fuzzy to read

[Kurald Galain]

Well, that's needlessly byzantine.

Okay, I signed up, got an e-mail, went to the webpage; there, that made me sign up again, download a license agreement, get an e-mail with a link to another webpage. That link doesn't work, but by searching the 'net I find a tweet pointing me to the WOTC forums. There they tell me the aforementioned link is incorrect and I need another. That one takes minutes to resolve properly, but eventually redirects to a search page which points to the download. Wow.

Also, major slashdot effect, but they should have seen that one coming.

Anyway, I've got the package; reading now.

[hamlet]

Got first email, now working with the painfully slow WOTC website to create an account.

Must say Shiboleth . . .

[Dienekes]

Alright Wizards, it's been over an hour, where's my email?

Also yes, the fuzzy word things are annoying.