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<blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8732525" data-attributes="member: 7030755"><p>Usability: look to products like <a href="https://necroticgnome.com/products/old-school-essentials-rules-tome" target="_blank">Old School Essentials</a> for how to make physical books useable at the table. Focus on layout: topics should be confined to one page or two page spreads. Important topics should not start in the middle of the page (I saw a flip through of the new starter set rulebook and the "combat" section started at the very end of a two page spread, continuing to the next page <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦♂️" title="Man facepalming :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" />). Cross reference sections with page number references (that, yes, you have to update when you do a reprint. That's your actual job). Spell lists should have page numbers. Organize spells by level for ease of use. Make pdf "cheat sheets" available for free that can be printed out. Design a character sheet that teaches new players with an intuitive design. Instead of the backsplashes they put on every page, use color boxes to highlight important information. In terms of writing, look at your word count, and reduce it by 20%. No spell should need more than one paragraph of description.</p><p></p><p>Content: I too, would like to see all the core rules in one book. At least, combine the PHB and the DMG, and include a good handful of monster stat blocks in the book. Information about setting up a game ("session 0," etc) and "running the game" should be in one core book. The core can be simplified--perhaps material for levels 1-10. Later books can expand on this: levels 11-20, spells 6th-9th, books with optional rules for dungeon masters, a book for world building and adventure creation, etc.</p><p></p><p>In sum, they might look to what is their best product in my opinion: the Young Adventure's Guides! Nicely produced stitched-binding books with intuitive layout and good, succinct writing. Questing Beast review here:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]qG7hAJwUsXI[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malmuria, post: 8732525, member: 7030755"] Usability: look to products like [URL='https://necroticgnome.com/products/old-school-essentials-rules-tome']Old School Essentials[/URL] for how to make physical books useable at the table. Focus on layout: topics should be confined to one page or two page spreads. Important topics should not start in the middle of the page (I saw a flip through of the new starter set rulebook and the "combat" section started at the very end of a two page spread, continuing to the next page 🤦♂️). Cross reference sections with page number references (that, yes, you have to update when you do a reprint. That's your actual job). Spell lists should have page numbers. Organize spells by level for ease of use. Make pdf "cheat sheets" available for free that can be printed out. Design a character sheet that teaches new players with an intuitive design. Instead of the backsplashes they put on every page, use color boxes to highlight important information. In terms of writing, look at your word count, and reduce it by 20%. No spell should need more than one paragraph of description. Content: I too, would like to see all the core rules in one book. At least, combine the PHB and the DMG, and include a good handful of monster stat blocks in the book. Information about setting up a game ("session 0," etc) and "running the game" should be in one core book. The core can be simplified--perhaps material for levels 1-10. Later books can expand on this: levels 11-20, spells 6th-9th, books with optional rules for dungeon masters, a book for world building and adventure creation, etc. In sum, they might look to what is their best product in my opinion: the Young Adventure's Guides! Nicely produced stitched-binding books with intuitive layout and good, succinct writing. Questing Beast review here: [MEDIA=youtube]qG7hAJwUsXI[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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