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There's also a human factor. Attention spans are limited. People tasked to process long manuscripts lose efficiency with time as boredom sets in. It would be nice if that weren't true, but it's pretty much a universal complaint among people in the publishing business. Whatever departure from the quadratic you might argue should occur owing to sections not being correlated with every other tends to get wiped out by this effect. It's pretty clear from labor costs that a 128-page book takes a lot more than four times as long as a 32-page one to edit and produce. The actual factor isn't 16, but it's far closer to 16 than to 4. I'd put its value between 10 and 12 when those working on the book are aware of these effects and doing their very best to mitigate them.
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08-06-2010, 03:56 PM | #42 |
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Which is a good way to think of DF – as a set of house rules for an old-school fantasy pastiche.
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08-06-2010, 09:08 PM | #43 | |
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I have a new appreciation for the effort that goes into editing these books now, especially the ones with lots of stat blocks or charts. Good job, guys! Good job, Kromm! |
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08-07-2010, 02:38 PM | #44 |
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Good stuff. I just added these to my "Unofficial DF Addendum" PDF -- the file that I print out and shove in the back of my DF binder. There it shall join your "temple healing prices" and Em's Racial Comparison Chart. I did cut the bit about 1-in-6 chance of a Wood vitals hit, though, just because that's not a general rule I use in DF, and I don't think it's fair to use it selectively here.
(If anyone wants a copy of said PDF, feel free. I just threw it up on MyGURPS today, when it occurred to me that others might like it.)
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08-07-2010, 06:33 PM | #45 |
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RPK -- that is a really useful file. Thank you for compiling it.
Presumably it will be updated as others post neat ideas like that to the forums. Any chance you'd be willing to make a thread, like the forthcoming rumors thread, that would let everyone know when it has been updated? I'd volunteer to do it myself, but you would know when you update it better than anyone else could... |
08-07-2010, 06:42 PM | #46 |
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For what it's worth, I'm slowly working on a project to create a full version of the height chart, showing all of the races as described. Dwarves are proving troublesome to depict convincingly. They're really freaky stumpy-squashed and I keep ending up with them looking... well... squashed. I may give up and just make them "all squashed" and be done with it.
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If you find a ring of fireproofing, you're more capable than you were before, even if you might easily lose that ring. The GM should keep it in mind when planning adventures, if only for as long as you have that bit of help.
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