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Need comments on rules

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03 Oct 2014 17:31 #188073 by jeb
Replied by jeb on topic Re: Need comments on rules
So folks know, here's what I sent back:

Style Related
  • You have eight styles of text before I get to the example. Heading, normal, italic, bold-italic, bold, underline-italic, underline-bold-italic, Heading 2, plus a couple font size changes. Do these all mean different things? If not, try to reduce.
  • Consider using "Wannabe" in the Objective and example areas, but "player" in the rules.
  • Write out numbers less than 10. Example,"All 6 Soldier dice" --> "All six soldier dice" (or even just "All Soldier dice.")
  • Justification problems under the bellydancer image.
  • Using a. and b. as choice delimiters is dreadful (under Event Die explanation). Almost anything else is better. Even just em-dashes would be better.
  • Don't Proper Case "six-sided" on the component list.
Rules Related
  • Recommend a small line drawing of setup (decks, soldiers pile, space for discards? and so forth), then you can have fewer words. Example: "Give each Wannabe a reference card. Then shuffle the Companion cards and Magic Item cards separately and place them in the center of the play area, face down, to form decks," could just be: "Give each Wannabe a reference card. Shuffle the Magic Item and Companion decks and place them face down in the center of the play area." You could just bolt on "..adjacent to the Soldier tokens" and let the line drawing "explain" where things go.
  • Companion card explanation is way overdone.
  • "Soldier Table" made me think the Dragon and Soldier faces appeared on Soldier dice, but reading further on, I see those are just d6s. I would call this an Outcome Table or Result Table or Recruitment Table or something instead.
  • If you are this far along this is probably too late, but making the Event Die something other than white would help. Similarly, marking the 1* and 5* faces would be nice because of their unique Farkle status as scoring even in singletons.
  • My instincts say 6-of-a-kind is under-rewarded. That's a 1:7776 roll there. That is a RARE event. A completely natural Yahtzee is 1:1296, and how many times have you seen that happen? To only get 500 more soldiers than a straight, which I think is 10:648 (check my math there) seems like a bum deal.

All that said, game looks fun! I had no problems navigating the Recruiting/Brawling/Dragoning modes. Good luck!

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