I would love to have any insight on why Blades in the Dark is laid out in landscape.

I would love to have any insight on why Blades in the Dark is laid out in landscape.

I would love to have any insight on why Blades in the Dark is laid out in landscape. For me, landscape is a lot harder to use than portrait, especially double-sided.

Is it too soon to ask that the other setting hacks be portrait? =)

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  1. Hey, Andrew! Historically (not to speak for the man himself here, these are just my experiences), Mr. Harper has preferred the layout for his products… the first of which I ever encountered (along with John himself) was AGON – a very beautifully done landscape (B5 format) small-press book, this was back in what, 2007 or so? That being said, while the QS itself is in landscape, I believe the overall plan is to release the actual BitD book in Portrait, as shown in the KS. I guess we’ll see!

  2. Well, portrait would be great. I was thinking about how a landscape binding would affect the book’s spine with continued use, as the spine would be shorter and holding longer paper.

  4. I run from my laptop, or tablet (or cast to screen) often so landscape is much better for viewing as screens are in this format.

    Printed it’s the same ease to bind on short side, or turn your clipboard/sheet sideways. (If you’re printing both sides just make sure to tell it to flip on short edge)

    Since the hacks that I’m doing will not have a  physical form factor there’s no real reason to go with portrait. It’s all going to be on-screen anyway.

  5. Even flipping on the short edge, it’s hard to put it in a binder (I don’t like flipping vertically), and often too much to easily staple. It’s just awkward to handle as paper.

    On a tablet you can turn the tablet to orient any way you like, so I don’t see much advantage there over portrait. On the screen, yes. I do like hard copy, though; it’s hard to absorb a game the same way on the screen as it is to have it printed.

    Some people will try to use the physical form, even if others do not.

    Yoon-Suin was done landscape, and it is considerably smaller than 8.5 x 11. It is unwieldy to use, in my opinion. I really like the book, but I would rather it had been portrait.

    I don’t rule the world (and I wouldn’t want to) but I’m expressing a preference for portrait. For what it is worth.

  6. I Personally hate landscape books up to a grade which is rather irrational. Its terrible to print in selfmade booklet Formats, which I use for all my gaming.

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