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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1029090" data-attributes="member: 1014">1.) What is the best number of players at the table, whether as a DM or player yourself?four or five plus the DM.2.) How often should you be able to game in an ideal world?Once a week.3.) How long should those sessions be?Six hours.4.) The poll handled percentage of Crunch to Flavor, but what are some of the specifics behind your vote?I went a little heavy on crunch.  Actually, I like the flavor text more, but here's the thing:  I'm VERY picky about well written flavor that is internally consistent.  The example I aways use is FASA's Tir Nan Og where the economy was based 75% on agriculture but none of the powerful, elite ruling members of the nation had ANY ties to it.  So the players could take over the country by becoming farmers (yes, yes, yes, the elites would open up a can of whup-butt on them, but its still a glaring hole within the flavor text).  There's also a very popular setting book I own that looks like they split up the world into several sections and told each contributing author to stay within their own section.  So two bordering nations often have nothing to do with each other.  What gives?So if good flavor text can't be written for whatever reason, I'd rather just see a monster book or whatever.5.) If you could choose the single best next book to become available to you, what would it be, what form would it be in (hardback, softback, PDF), and how much would that book cost (please be reasonable)?HA!  It would be hardback with color illios and cost as much as a PDF! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Personally, if the writing was really good, I'd be thrilled with no illustrations, a couple of maps, and the rest of it simple text, like a novel.  If the writing is in doubt, I'd like a softback book with nice cover art, some good illustrations of things I might have a hard time imagining (e.g. new monsters).The topic?  Whatever floats your boat.  Get excited about something and write about it.  Freedom is the one advantage in self-publishing, use it.  But city books are always nice.</blockquote>

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