I guess this is mainly aimed at John, but also to those contributing official material to a lesser extent.
With regards to the layout of the pages in the quick start set that is the current iteration, I think it’s a very nicely arranged book. The text is all clear, the style is fitting and consistent and the illustrations are helpful.
My question is about how physical copies will look. The pages are currently all A4 (probably) in landscape. Some pages have 3 columns, some 2 and the illustration pages are obviously whole page. Does that mean then that the book will be A4 landscape when it is done?
I don’t have a particular issue with this. As I said, I think the book is very well arranged. I just wonder what considerations going for a non-standard RPG format required in terms of both production and sales? Do you think it’ll be beneficial that it will stand out on shelves in retailers? Do you forsee any complaints about how it might fit on shelves when compared to other books people might already own?
Oh this is so out of the box. I love it!
[amateur opinion only] It is unusual being landscape. But I think RPG books do not suffer the mass market publishing constraints of mainstream and non-genre works. They’ve a lot of creative freedom (IMHO) because standardisation is not something that an RPG buyer is looking for. I’m also of the opinion that a lot of sales are online compared to other kinds of books, which also lessens shelf display problems
The book is 6×9 format (same as FATE Core). So a page that’s currently 8.5×11 landscape will instead be a two-page spread in the book (roughly).
I’ll have a PDF of actual book-formatted pages for you all to see this month.
Exciting! Can’t wait to see it. Thanks.
Awesome. I love that book size.
All behold: loot ahead!! 😆
Eagerly looking forward for taking a look at the final pages 🙂
A related question to John Harper: Are you going to update the quickstart again or are you focusing exclusively on the final book?
I think there will be one more QS update, then after that you’ll start getting “for real book” PDFs. 🙂
I’m biased BTW. I’m keen on A4 because it’s an international standard 😀
If you really need a landscape format game book, you can get Agon. 😉
Will the character and crew sheets as well as the district pages stay in landscape format? This is really practical around the gaming table.
Yes, all of the reference and playbook sheets will stay in their current format.
Hurray!!
Playbooks – not character sheets… reallly got to change my mindset…. old habits die hard. 😆