Finally had time to revamp Werewolves of London and bring it out for testing. Biggest change coming from the previous playtest was that I added rules for border skirmishes with other players - reducing their investments in the contested territories or preventing them from scoring those territories at the end of the game. I also changed some rules for scoring, for where you can invest money, and for what happens when the police investigation progresses.
Overall conclusion from today's test is that it's moving in the right direction but still has plenty more moving to do. It does feel more wolfy now, but needs to also feel more businessy, and find the right balance of the two aspects. The test players gave me some good ideas based on what they were expecting from the pitch, and how that differed from what I actually had, so that gives me a really good sense of what to aim for with the next round of revisions. We also talked a lot about building around the day/night contrast; I'm kind of kicking myself that I hadn't thought about that more explicitly before since it is rather central to the whole concept of werewolves but again, it does give me some ideas to play with.
And it also led one of them to come up with a new tag line that I'm definitely stealing - "outbid them during the day, outbite them during the night"
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