Playtesting.org is a TTRPG blog, reborn after years and now focused on QuestWorlds, Chaosium’s newly released narrative RPG. I once wrote about HeroQuest, the game that became QuestWorlds, and with the system now officially released under the ORC license, it’s time to dive back in, share ideas, and help grow the community.
Whether you're a veteran of Hero Wars and HeroQuest, or just discovering QuestWorlds, I hope you’ll find something useful here.
Latest posts
Character Growth in Perseverance
Characters in Perseverance grow through scars, not stats. Explore how XP, flaws, and rewrites shape their journey across the frontier..
Incredible Powers in Perseverance – Optional, Mysterious, and Dangerous
Optional rules for mysterious powers in Perseverance – rare, eerie, and best used with caution.
Two Months of Perseverance – Dust, Danger, and Designing the Frontier
Marking two months of worldbuilding in Perseverance – reflections on what’s been done and what’s still to come.
Running Perseverance – GM Introduction & Advice
From smuggling jobs to survival horror, this post arms you with tools to run Perseverance. Pacing, stakes, factions, NPCs—everything you need to make the frontier breathe.
Temporary tags and lasting consequences – Adding narrative tags to QuestWorlds
A homebrew system for QuestWorlds inspired by Legend in the Mist's temporary tags, introducing lightweight narrative conditions called tags.
Dust Runner Blues (Part 2) – The Rest of the Crew
In Part 2 of this character creation walkthrough for QuestWorlds, we meet Mira and Grim, and explore what troupe play means in the context of Perseverance