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Saturday, June 06, 2009

The Perils of Stand-Alone Rulebooks 

Ah, the joys of the stand-alone rulebook. The INTSEC book is designed to stand on its own, without reference to the Troubleshooter book. However, no-one wants to see large chunks of text replicated across the two rulebooks, so I'm busily condensing and rewriting the rules down. The chapter on Mutations, for example, takes up 20 pages of the Troubleshooter book, but less than 8 pages of INTSEC.

It's almost like writing rules in Orwell's Newspeak. 'Pyrokinesis doubleplusgood margin incinerate CommieMutantTraitor, plusgood on fire, ungood selfnosefire, doubleplusungood spontaneous combustion.'

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Posted by: Gareth Hanrahan / 10:59 AM

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Ahh, but what will you do when it comes to the High Programmers book? Rewrite them again? Use only the words you left out when condensing them for IntSec? Compress them a second time? "Pyrokinesis: Oooh! Matter Eater: Bleurgh!"
# posted by Anonymous Danforth : June 08, 2009 8:23 AM
 
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