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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 5388935" data-attributes="member: 8863">I'd say no more than a page is good.&nbsp; More than that and a lot of players aren't going to read it.&nbsp; I also have to honestly say, the more you establish in your campaign document before you start the campaign, the more difficult things might get creatively for you later on.&nbsp; A fiction writer can create whatever lengthy setting bibles he needs for a book, but it helps to be more flexible as a DM.Paritally depends on how much of this doucment is house rules and how much is fluff as well, and how long the campaign's been going.&nbsp; A long campaign is going to have a lot established background long time players will be familiar with, but you don't want to innundate a new player with reams detailing 5 years or more (especially many more) of gameplay either.I think ideally this longest a player handout should be is 1 page house rules and 1 page setting information.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 5388935, member: 8863"] I'd say no more than a page is good. More than that and a lot of players aren't going to read it. I also have to honestly say, the more you establish in your campaign document before you start the campaign, the more difficult things might get creatively for you later on. A fiction writer can create whatever lengthy setting bibles he needs for a book, but it helps to be more flexible as a DM. Paritally depends on how much of this doucment is house rules and how much is fluff as well, and how long the campaign's been going. A long campaign is going to have a lot established background long time players will be familiar with, but you don't want to innundate a new player with reams detailing 5 years or more (especially many more) of gameplay either. I think ideally this longest a player handout should be is 1 page house rules and 1 page setting information. [/QUOTE]

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