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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9262353" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>A number of OSR publishers are putting their rules on the end pages (the paper printed on the inside of the covers of the book). That requires them to boil them down to two or four pages, depending on the publisher, and it's great for use at the table. I suspect it also makes a lot of them think hard about how the rules work to begin with.</p><p></p><p>I agree that this is something we should be expecting of all game publishers.</p><p></p><p>This is also a thing we're seeing a lot in the OSR space, either with everything being on the map to begin with, in a form that makes it easy to use without consulting the rest of the adventure, or reprinting the relevant sections of the map on the page where the description is. Some publishers do this better than others, but yeah, it's a huge upgrade for usability.</p><p></p><p>You can probably guess what I'm going to say here. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Class-specific playbooks work great for lighter games (PbtA or OSR games like Beyond the Wall), but I agree this should be a thing, in whatever fashion. I went to Kinkos and printed out and bound the Shadowdark Witch class into its own book for my wife, which is immensely useful (and relatively cheap to do).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9262353, member: 11760"] A number of OSR publishers are putting their rules on the end pages (the paper printed on the inside of the covers of the book). That requires them to boil them down to two or four pages, depending on the publisher, and it's great for use at the table. I suspect it also makes a lot of them think hard about how the rules work to begin with. I agree that this is something we should be expecting of all game publishers. This is also a thing we're seeing a lot in the OSR space, either with everything being on the map to begin with, in a form that makes it easy to use without consulting the rest of the adventure, or reprinting the relevant sections of the map on the page where the description is. Some publishers do this better than others, but yeah, it's a huge upgrade for usability. You can probably guess what I'm going to say here. ;) Class-specific playbooks work great for lighter games (PbtA or OSR games like Beyond the Wall), but I agree this should be a thing, in whatever fashion. I went to Kinkos and printed out and bound the Shadowdark Witch class into its own book for my wife, which is immensely useful (and relatively cheap to do). [/QUOTE]
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