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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3592787" data-attributes="member: 21938">Like, for example, Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I think a nice prepped-for-print PDF is the easiest to read, as kensenata says, on the way home from work.&nbsp; Small web-pages are good, especially if you're only looking at scrolling down one or two pages worth.&nbsp; Endless long blocks of text are for the die-hard only, I think (and I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of that with Conclave).A few years ago I had the fantabulous idea of taking it upon myself to review online homebrew worlds. I think I did about ten beginning with 'A' before seeing sense.&nbsp; My experience with that, though, was that three things are important:1) Your basic HTML/page design skills.&nbsp; Go read webpagesthatsuck.com. Learn.2) Over-volume of information in one block.&nbsp; The web works best if you assume a short attention span on behalf of your reader.3) Originality of the world.&nbsp; This is highly personal, but if you spend a lot of time checking out homebrew worlds you get very bored, very quickly, of yet another vanilla fantasy setting (or worse, a cheap version of a Midnightesque, bady guys won setting - oo, we're so dark, look, we've got red text on a black background&nbsp; :\ )Something I've done with Conclave (mainly on PC races so far, but I may take it further) is for short web page entries with an associated PDF for more details. If you have the whole thing on PDF but little/no web content (Aretis D'Arghe and Bostonia went this direction, poor decision IMO), why would someone download your PDF?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 3592787, member: 21938"] Like, for example, Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms? :p I think a nice prepped-for-print PDF is the easiest to read, as kensenata says, on the way home from work. Small web-pages are good, especially if you're only looking at scrolling down one or two pages worth. Endless long blocks of text are for the die-hard only, I think (and I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of that with Conclave). A few years ago I had the fantabulous idea of taking it upon myself to review online homebrew worlds. I think I did about ten beginning with 'A' before seeing sense. My experience with that, though, was that three things are important: 1) Your basic HTML/page design skills. Go read webpagesthatsuck.com. Learn. 2) Over-volume of information in one block. The web works best if you assume a short attention span on behalf of your reader. 3) Originality of the world. This is highly personal, but if you spend a lot of time checking out homebrew worlds you get very bored, very quickly, of yet another vanilla fantasy setting (or worse, a cheap version of a Midnightesque, bady guys won setting - oo, we're so dark, look, we've got red text on a black background :\ ) Something I've done with Conclave (mainly on PC races so far, but I may take it further) is for short web page entries with an associated PDF for more details. If you have the whole thing on PDF but little/no web content (Aretis D'Arghe and Bostonia went this direction, poor decision IMO), why would someone download your PDF? [/QUOTE]

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