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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sorn" data-source="post: 837242" data-attributes="member: 3097">The term "sidebar" might be a bit misleading. In the end, it will most likely be more of a text box that fills a whole page or two. In the early version that's on the site, the quick resolution rules take up about half a page. With the current rules, I expect it to be longer than that, plus various additional sidebars and references mixed in with the rest of the guide. I am also planning an appendix, which will contain the tables and rules summaries (like Mongoose Publishing is doing in most, if not all, of their works).  That's fine. New Uses for Old Skills/Spells is certainly a part of the guide the way I see it. The majority thereof will definitely be geared towards sex, not seduction and love. But seduction and love will certainly be a part of those sections. I think the discussion got a little out of hand when it came to seduction and love, but mostly due to a miscommunication regarding the depth of these rules. Suggestions for modifiers and a few paragraphs are certainly within the scope of this book. It came across as if detailed rules akin to the scope of our hard-focus core mechanics were desired.  Definitely. We will already be labelled as perverts or dweebs who can't get any, so if we take ourselves too serious, this will only get worse. As you said, toilet humor is something we should probably stay away from, but we should keep everything somewhat tongue-in-cheek and light-hearted. I think that's where the spell section and the magic item section will really shine. The core mechanics are a little dry, but that's the nature of mechanics. In a similar vein, the character creation rules or the combat section of the PHB aren't all that entertaining to read either.Addition after reading Bastoche's latest post:Maybe we need to clarify on the humor aspect... There's a big difference between entertaining and funny, and downright silly throughout the book. If the whole book is dry and stuffy, nobody will read it. Humor was a huge selling point of the original, so we should preserve at least some of that .</blockquote>

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