In some very cool news, next month myself and several friends will begin playtesting Jake Richmond's new RPG The Magical Land of Yeld. You can purchase a .PDF of the playtest copy for $1 at RPGNow.com.   

The game is an homage of sorts to the old Nintendo-style adventure and rpg games, like Legend of Zelda and the original Final Fantasy games. For the record, I grew up playing these games, and loved them. There are some other fantasy elements thrown in as well, but every person I've showed the game to has immediately recalled some moment playing Zelda or another game and said "We have to play this."

So that is what we are going to do. I will have about 3-5 players on a regular basis, and we're going to take a group of characters through the main game. The idea is to take notes on what we like, what we don't, questions or problems we encounter and things that absolutely rocked. Then we'll send our notes off to Jake and hopefully he will find something useful. 

I plan on posting actual play reports as we go along, and encourage anyone who might be interested to buy the playtest copy and start their own game.

ME