Call for Playtesters: GURPS Urban Magics

[Figleaf23]

I never buy enough on E23 to qualify as a play-tester, but that's probably for the best since I utterly lack any knowledge of GURPS or experience with role-playing games. Plus my critical faculties are dysfunctional, and my written communication skills are pathetic.

sigh.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Steven Marsh

Prospective playtesters will also need to be registered e23 customers who have spent more than $50 at e23 in the past 12 months.

So how does one tell if you have spent that much in a particular timeframe? It's not like I keep track of purchase dates or prices.

[Pmandrekar]

Originally Posted by malloyd

So how does one tell if you have spent that much in a particular timeframe? It's not like I keep track of purchase dates or prices.

You can go into your account online, and it will actually tell you what you've purchased and on which date.

-P.

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by Crispythemighty

I would love to get into another playtest, but last time in GURPS:Supers; I stopped checking my e-mail one weekend and was drowning in the relies. By the time I caught back up the playtest was over.

Likewise.

If someone knows a way to make handling all the back and forth communication easier, I'd love to apply.

I think making a new forum on here would be the best way. Hidden and accesible only to playtesters.
Like the mythical Men In Black forum.

Which doesn't exist.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by The Benj

Likewise.



I think making a new forum on here would be the best way. Hidden and accesible only to playtesters.
Like the mythical Men In Black forum.

Which doesn't exist.

Thirded, I had this problem on the Mass Combat playtest.

[Kelly Pedersen]

Originally Posted by The Benj

I think making a new forum on here would be the best way. Hidden and accesible only to playtesters.

It might be worthwhile considering creating a GMail account strictly for playtesting, even if you don't use it otherwise. GMail automatically threads messages, which means that it's enormously easier to follow active playtests. And getting a GMail account is easier, and probably more likely, than SJGames changing longstanding playtest policy. :-)

[Plasmabunny]

Originally Posted by Figleaf23

I never buy enough on E23 to qualify as a play-tester, but that's probably for the best since I utterly lack any knowledge of GURPS or experience with role-playing games. Plus my critical faculties are dysfunctional, and my written communication skills are pathetic.

sigh.

Figleaf, your my hero ;)

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by Crispythemighty

I would love to get into another playtest, but last time in GURPS:Supers; I stopped checking my e-mail one weekend and was drowning in the relies. By the time I caught back up the playtest was over.

As I wrote back then :

Originally Posted by jeff_wilson

Reading other comments is secondary to reading the manuscript and making your own comments.

Duplication of comments is rarely a problem; if you are worried about it anyway, just skim the subjects of any posts from the same chapter.

Playtesters must read all original posts with [ADMIN] tags and their relevant replies, and they should look over the subjects of existing threads to avoid starting a duplicate thread, but they are not expected to read every message in every thread.

[Pomphis]

Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

GMail automatically threads messages,

Playtests have an archive where messages can be sorted by thread or date. I usually do not read the incoming mails as such, but the archive and go to my mails only when i want to reply to one.

[Pomphis]

Apropos: I hope that UM will be well coordinated with the Spaceships book that will see Bound Elementals and the like.