thread: 2009-07-13 : How About Some Q and A
On 2009-07-29, Vincent wrote:
Moreno: I think that both of those games deserve to be in short books, not long ones.
How do I answer further without answering to the implicit complaint?
Call it an experiment if you want - how little text can I get away with writing? (Answer: not THAT little, it turns out.) How much work can I demand of my audience? (Answer: better make it less, next time.) Can my audience learn rules in example form? (Answer: not across the board.)
The two games I'm working on now, Storming the Wizard's Tower and Apocalypse World, both deserve to be in long books, not short ones. So I'm writing them expansively.
I don't know what to say about it. Do you think that Poison'd would better fill a 64-page digest-sized paperback? It might reach a wider audience that way - only might! - but it'd break my heart.
