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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2790608" data-attributes="member: 2067">Order-of-information-wise, if fiction comes at the end, I'd bet a dollar only a small fraction of the people will read it.If it comes at the beginning, almost everyone will.But it's also hard to put your best foot foward with fiction. Because if your fiction is weak, or if it doesn't capture the spirit of the world, or if it just throws a lot of new terms at someone without any sort of frame of reference, it will probably stop them from reading the WHOLE book. Which is why fiction used like artwork -- intermittantly throughout the book to represent things in the text -- is one of the best uses of it. I think of the Van Richten's Guides as great examples of this. The fiction emerges from the rules and the setting, not independant of it -- he is a character, as are the people he interacts with, but he is set in both a setting and a game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 2790608, member: 2067"] Order-of-information-wise, if fiction comes at the end, I'd bet a dollar only a small fraction of the people will read it. If it comes at the beginning, almost everyone will. But it's also hard to put your best foot foward with fiction. Because if your fiction is weak, or if it doesn't capture the spirit of the world, or if it just throws a lot of new terms at someone without any sort of frame of reference, it will probably stop them from reading the WHOLE book. Which is why fiction used like artwork -- intermittantly throughout the book to represent things in the text -- is one of the best uses of it. I think of the Van Richten's Guides as great examples of this. The fiction emerges from the rules and the setting, not independant of it -- he is a character, as are the people he interacts with, but he is set in both a setting and a game. [/QUOTE]

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