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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 1669887" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>Before voting in the poll above, please read the first post.</p><p></p><p>While thinking up the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=95401" target="_blank"><em>Customized Rules System (CRS) and Customized Campaign Setting (CCS)</em></a> i was also thinking up ways how this would work in print. What i came up with was a binder with short sections (couple of pages) that could be inserted or removed depending on the wishes of the DM. Some of you might remember the first edition of Aeon (later renamed to Trinity), it was done in a sort of 'permanent' binder (by permanent i mean that it's very difficult to remove or add pages).</p><p></p><p>The advantages of a binder would be that a DM/player can add content how they see fit, whether it's printed from a pdf, made by their own hand in a txt editor, or 'professionally' printed material (specially made for a binder). Also the ability to remove sections that aren't used is very usefull, essentially this would be <em>one (rule) book to rule them all</em> ;-)</p><p></p><p>This system would also be cheaper for the people buying/using it, a binder is readibly available all over the world, so only the printed content pages need to be sold to the consumer. No expenses for cover art, no expenses for binding or cover printing. Small packages of 8-16 pages would still be profitable (even in full color).</p><p></p><p>I've been looking around and there are very luxurious binders available finished in leather or even of satin finished aluminium, these would be very expensive, but you can always start with a $5 plastic binder.</p><p></p><p>When going for a binder format i would go for something that can handle both Letter format paper and A4 format paper, that still leaves whether to go with portrait or landscape. Portrait would be the most common, but also the most boring. Landscape could be very interesting if handled properly, but it seems that some people absolutely don't like landscape books (so why's that Psion?).</p><p></p><p>So what should i do? Choose one or the other (if so which one?)? Or support both? Chosing one or the other would mean that probably some people wouldn't want content in that format. Supporting both would mean more work and that would mean less content.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 1669887, member: 725"] Before voting in the poll above, please read the first post. While thinking up the [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=95401][i]Customized Rules System (CRS) and Customized Campaign Setting (CCS)[/i][/URL] i was also thinking up ways how this would work in print. What i came up with was a binder with short sections (couple of pages) that could be inserted or removed depending on the wishes of the DM. Some of you might remember the first edition of Aeon (later renamed to Trinity), it was done in a sort of 'permanent' binder (by permanent i mean that it's very difficult to remove or add pages). The advantages of a binder would be that a DM/player can add content how they see fit, whether it's printed from a pdf, made by their own hand in a txt editor, or 'professionally' printed material (specially made for a binder). Also the ability to remove sections that aren't used is very usefull, essentially this would be [i]one (rule) book to rule them all[/i] ;-) This system would also be cheaper for the people buying/using it, a binder is readibly available all over the world, so only the printed content pages need to be sold to the consumer. No expenses for cover art, no expenses for binding or cover printing. Small packages of 8-16 pages would still be profitable (even in full color). I've been looking around and there are very luxurious binders available finished in leather or even of satin finished aluminium, these would be very expensive, but you can always start with a $5 plastic binder. When going for a binder format i would go for something that can handle both Letter format paper and A4 format paper, that still leaves whether to go with portrait or landscape. Portrait would be the most common, but also the most boring. Landscape could be very interesting if handled properly, but it seems that some people absolutely don't like landscape books (so why's that Psion?). So what should i do? Choose one or the other (if so which one?)? Or support both? Chosing one or the other would mean that probably some people wouldn't want content in that format. Supporting both would mean more work and that would mean less content. [/QUOTE]
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