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March 23 preview

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Enjorous:
*Throws produce at your feet* You're feet didn't move!!

blackheart:
And Baltimore it is.

First impressions:

1: LOVE the layout. At first I thought it was going to look a little too crowded or "busy" but the two-column format breaks the page down into easy to digest format. The snark-sniping between Harry, Bob, and Billy is both informative and vastly entertaining. Reminds me a great deal of the show-quote format in the Buffy and Angel RPG's, with a little levity to break up the rules and writing.
As are the add-on post-it notes and margin scrawls. Neat way of making side and foot notes without actually... well ya' know, using them.

1a: Stat layouts are perfect. Clean, brief, and informative. Exactly what they should be.

2: This IS the way a setting should be made. The town, the characters, the supporting characters, all in a easy-to-reference style. Easily one of the best "You can run it with just this" examples I've ever seen in a RPG.

3: My only bad point: Concerning the full game, this seems like it's gonna be a monster PDF to print out. Even at work (a local unnamed office supply store) I see a huge load and print time. (Any chance of an easy-to-print format, or too late in the process?)

More to come later, but I wanted to post my first impressions.

Kudos all around Gang! Fantastic Job!
Now to go tell all the "never gonna see the light of day" crowd to go stuff it.   ;D

(Edited for clairity and removed a somewhat silly question.)

TheMouse:
I'm about halfway through the preview. Overall it's really solid.

The layout is really user friendly. Very few awkwardly placed bits.

My only problem is with the placement of Evan Montrose's stat block. I know that with a physical book it only means that you'd have to finish that paragraph on the right hand page and then look back to the left for the stats. As a PDF it means that you have to scroll down a full page and then scroll back up.

On the other hand, I'm really happy to see that the vampires have a hunger track. I was recently involved in a discussion on how to run Vampire: the Masquerade using FATE, and I'm eager to see the rules for the hunger track.

The frequent page references are very nice. Definitely going to help finding things when you want to cross reference.

Good work, guys. Looking forward to the book coming out.

iago:
I will consider doing a version without the background image if it doesn't increase the overall size of the PDF package too much, for the printer friendly question.

As to the statblock with Evan -- ain't no way to get around that. I read PDFs on a wide monitor that shows two pages side by side, when I want that kind of look. I know it's not possible for everyone but book format needs trump electronic convenience for now.

breaker:
I cannot wait to get back from work to see this,  I also find it funny that this forum isn't blocked but dresdenfilesrpg is : /

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