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Worlds of Design: How Long Should Your Rulebook Be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8140729" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>I wrote a 24 Hour RPG some time back. It came to 2700 words or so. I never released it since it was nothing special and I wrote in on impulse.</p><p></p><p>Having written many reviews on this site back in the 3e days along with some articles for other publishers I can tell you from experience, its time consuming and a lot of work. As such I probably wouldn't write an RPG except as a labor of love since its not going to be better than any game out there now.</p><p></p><p>If I were writing that labor of love, what Ron Edwards calls a Fantasy Heartbreaker , I'd do it in 3 books either 64 or 128 pages, likely a core rules, companion and world book. Anything more than that would be too much effort to write or honesty if anyone played it, to learn. A few exceptions aside, simple systems like Tiny D6 are the current gaming trend IMO.</p><p></p><p> I'd guess each book would take several months and frankly in a crowded market, almost no one would bother with them other than my own group if them so it wouldn't be worth it.</p><p></p><p>Even if I were to use an established system, like say a Fantasy Medieval Christian version of Blue Rose/True 20 I tinkered with a good setting would still be quite intensive to write and the whole thing might come in over 300 pages. I've written that much and it can take months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace, post: 8140729, member: 944"] I wrote a 24 Hour RPG some time back. It came to 2700 words or so. I never released it since it was nothing special and I wrote in on impulse. Having written many reviews on this site back in the 3e days along with some articles for other publishers I can tell you from experience, its time consuming and a lot of work. As such I probably wouldn't write an RPG except as a labor of love since its not going to be better than any game out there now. If I were writing that labor of love, what Ron Edwards calls a Fantasy Heartbreaker , I'd do it in 3 books either 64 or 128 pages, likely a core rules, companion and world book. Anything more than that would be too much effort to write or honesty if anyone played it, to learn. A few exceptions aside, simple systems like Tiny D6 are the current gaming trend IMO. I'd guess each book would take several months and frankly in a crowded market, almost no one would bother with them other than my own group if them so it wouldn't be worth it. Even if I were to use an established system, like say a Fantasy Medieval Christian version of Blue Rose/True 20 I tinkered with a good setting would still be quite intensive to write and the whole thing might come in over 300 pages. I've written that much and it can take months. [/QUOTE]
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