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BBF Bestiary Foldout?
Thu, 11/08/2012 - 11:29am | 
Mulsiphix
I just came across a blog article (BareBones Bestiary) which mentions a BBF bestiary foldout. I'm curious if this was something you planned on making available or if it was just an idea you DwD Studios folks were toying with. A double sided foldout would be awesome =P
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+1 Mulsiphix
+1 Mulsiphix
Want this.
This product has evolved. A lot.
Initially, it was all done on cards with a few fold-outs like the one shown in this thread. There existed a player foldout, a GM foldout, and a setting foldout (front map, back brief descriptions). The character sheets were the size of two facing playing cards and you folded it into a card-sized little four-paged tiny character booklet. We tested this a LOT and for a LONG TIME.
The feedback we received from the testing showed that nobody could take the game seriously as a full role-playing product. It felt like a board or card game with a role-playing influence, and felt incomplete.
So we folded all the rules and stuff into a book. Then we tested this a LOT and for a LONG TIME.
It continued to evolve after testing.
And now the game is as you love it. This isn't to say that a reference foldout is a bad idea - but it is certainly saying that the original would not resemble the game rules we ended up actually using. It presents additional problems... for instance, if we released a foldout like this - how could anyone print it?