How Much Do You Care About Form Factor/Book Size?

[Autumnal]

I would never suggest you’re old.

I’d just start talking about gerontocracy and the decayed legacy of Numenor and bristlecone pines & sequoias and like that.

 

[philreed]

This was quite literally looking at my screen, my wife, and back.

Then my work is done.

Nah. I can do more. (I still have to make the fantasy cereal with a dungeon printed on the box.)

 

[philreed]

I suspect Phil spends a lot of his time looking through the internet for things he can get custom produced and saying "hmm, what RPG product could I put on a custom-printed towel?" (A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy inspired RPG, Phil, to answer the question.)

I'm always keeping my eyes open. For the Dungeon Slimes lemon-slime – uh, lemon-lime – soda, I stumbled across an article about weddings where they made the suggestion of a custom soda for the wedding.

Which led to chatting with a craft soda maker, too many hours of playtesting (which was fun), and 48 prototype cans in total. And ow, over a year after the game was created, we're ready to make it happen.

I have a list of odd formats I need to explore.

 

[thullgrim]

What kind of device are you reading them on? I have an iPad Air that’s a bit less than 8.5x11, so that letter-sized pages are shrunk just enough to be somewhat noticeably harder to read.

12.9 inch iPad. It’s glorious. I use it for reading away from a computer. I do most of my prep at my desk with three monitors. One of which is flipped vertically just to make using PDFs more convenient.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I have a list of odd formats I need to explore.

Honestly, you may be having more fun than almost anyone else in the RPG space.

 

[philreed]

Honestly, you may be having more fun than almost anyone else in the RPG space.

The trick is to be too dumb to know better. And thank you. I love what I do. I'm very, very lucky.

 

[Kromanjon]

I don't think size ever factor in to my buying of books but in the last couple of years I've grown fonder of the A5 format over the larger books.

 

[johnmarron]

I'm the opposite of the OP. I much prefer digest/A5 sized books. I have skipped a number of 3rd party Shadowdark kickstarters because they were letter sized, and would look weird on the shelf next to the SD core book.

John

 

[Sacrosanct]

I think it also matters what you're writing it for. For example, with my current KS, I decided to make the books match what the size of the edition is. OSE and Shadowdark are smaller than 5e books for example. So I wanted that to be a consistent experience for the player.

The key is to ensure the print size is still readable.

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I'm the opposite of the OP. I much prefer digest/A5 sized books. I have skipped a number of 3rd party Shadowdark kickstarters because they were letter sized, and would look weird on the shelf next to the SD core book.

John

I feel validated!

 

[billd91]

I'm pretty size agnostic as long as they aren't too big and heavy. PF1's Core Rulebook was a lot to lug around so I thank them for being PDF-pushers so I could put it on my much lighter iPad. I don't want to haul a coffee table book around just to game.