Re: Excellent point!w00hooOctober 21 2010, 14:28:57 UTC
Well, you produce a 'locked' wiki as your product. Which is possibly more similar to the pdf than I think it sounds, I don't really do pdf's so this is all blue sky thinking to me.
You'd end up with a lot of hyperlinking, or possibly even just dynamic linking as you would with help documents in software. You highlight 'sword' and the indexing could offer you all the various references to help work out if you're looking for its cost, its hit points, how heavy it is, availability to buy or skill required to use. Following that link could take you to what you want to know, or you could end up crawling through a few if you weren't 100% sure of your question.
I think it would still need a base format for people who wanted to read through the rules though. You'd probably want a decent idea of how many people who bought the game actually played the game. The more people that buy it, read it, never play it, the more closer you want it to a traditional readable book.
What might also be worth considering is a playing aid rather than a book at all, which is just a searchable glossary of the game, probably with multiple examples for every entry. Lots of examples to help work out how the writer intended the game to be played is probably going to be the biggest bonus of this sort of setup.
You'd end up with a lot of hyperlinking, or possibly even just dynamic linking as you would with help documents in software. You highlight 'sword' and the indexing could offer you all the various references to help work out if you're looking for its cost, its hit points, how heavy it is, availability to buy or skill required to use. Following that link could take you to what you want to know, or you could end up crawling through a few if you weren't 100% sure of your question.
I think it would still need a base format for people who wanted to read through the rules though. You'd probably want a decent idea of how many people who bought the game actually played the game. The more people that buy it, read it, never play it, the more closer you want it to a traditional readable book.
What might also be worth considering is a playing aid rather than a book at all, which is just a searchable glossary of the game, probably with multiple examples for every entry. Lots of examples to help work out how the writer intended the game to be played is probably going to be the biggest bonus of this sort of setup.
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