Today we’re going to take our first peek inside the actual Legends & Labyrinths Black Book Beta. And we’re starting literally on page 1 with the full introduction, including the example of play.
This should give you some idea of what the final look of the book will be. A couple of things to note: First, in this section of the rulebook I’m using the SRS to introduce concepts to new players. There’s a slightly more informal, instructional quality to them. (You’ll see what I mean.) The SRS references in the rest of the book are crisper and primarily serve as reference tools (as shown in the examples earlier this week).
Second, you’ll probably notice a few dreaded “page XXX” references. For the moment, these are intentional. They’re pointing to material that either (a) doesn’t exist in the Black Book Beta or (b) will have a different page number in the final rulebook (pretty much anything in the Grimoire, Treasury, or Bestiary). By leaving these “XXX” references in the Black Book Beta instead of replacing them with temporary references, we’re significantly reducing the chance of these references not getting properly updated for the final rulebook. (Finding “XXX” is easy; noticing a page reference which is now pointing to the wrong place is harder.) This is a conscious decision on my part to sacrifice some degree of quality in the Black Book Beta in order to make the final rulebook the best it can be.
If you spot any other errors or typos, though, you should totally light up the comments here or my inbox.
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Looks good — interesting to see the “I’m reading the love-letters to the door” episode you wrote about a few years ago.
In a different direction, it’s hard to conceive of an electronic typesetting system that cannot automatically handle page cross-references.
When you wrote “geyers” in the example session, did you mean “geysers”?
I believe it should read “A great gout of greenish goo geysers into the air.”
Embrace the alliterative goodness.
@Borfaxer: I did. Thank you.
@Hudax: Tempting. Very tempting.