One of the things that I think will help with the rules is a bit of a reorganization of the rules document, not just a bit of an edit to the text itself. For example, in my current draft, the rules for feeding are spread out in three places: your general feeding, the extra feeding personal action, and a Blood and Feeding section. Some of this is inevitable, because obviously an extra feeding personal action or the ability to augment your feeding like you can an influence needs to be discussed in the relevant places, but it also makes it harder to flip around and see how it all fits together.
I'm of two minds on this still though. On the one hand, I like having things in the PDF format since I don't have constant internet access and I like to be able to look at things if I'm in a taxi or at the pool or on a plane. But something more interactive like a wiki might be nicely able to show things is chunks that are the right size and not an intimidating 20+ page rules document.
Now, a PDF can have some of the links that a wiki would: it's easy to get the table to contents to do that, and setting links to, say, see a feeding section, in the relevant places about personal actions is also possible. We can also add more page breaks, such that each individual influence with its chart of sample story actions is all in one place, which might make it easier to see at a glance how things work, though it would also raise the page count because of all the blank space.
Obviously, I'm leaning a bit more towards a more advanced PDF, but does anyone have any strong feelings the other way?
The other problem with the document is it has grown new sections when we schemed up new rules, but they haven't been really integrated yet, but that just needs me to sit down and revise a few things: changing sections around, and making the prose clearer.
I'm of two minds on this still though. On the one hand, I like having things in the PDF format since I don't have constant internet access and I like to be able to look at things if I'm in a taxi or at the pool or on a plane. But something more interactive like a wiki might be nicely able to show things is chunks that are the right size and not an intimidating 20+ page rules document.
Now, a PDF can have some of the links that a wiki would: it's easy to get the table to contents to do that, and setting links to, say, see a feeding section, in the relevant places about personal actions is also possible. We can also add more page breaks, such that each individual influence with its chart of sample story actions is all in one place, which might make it easier to see at a glance how things work, though it would also raise the page count because of all the blank space.
Obviously, I'm leaning a bit more towards a more advanced PDF, but does anyone have any strong feelings the other way?
The other problem with the document is it has grown new sections when we schemed up new rules, but they haven't been really integrated yet, but that just needs me to sit down and revise a few things: changing sections around, and making the prose clearer.
Why not both?
ReplyDeleteMost modern wiki packages export to PDF. (I'm familiar w/ Confluence. In fact, you can buy a 10-user license of confluence for $10 a year... I would *gladly* contribute that amount to the game!)
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
Might have to look into that. Not sure how much better a wiki would be and if its worth the effort to do both? Also, a wiki just isn't as pretty.
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