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It is 90% waffle, and 10% bloody obvious. You can gave my copy for postage cost.
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goat major wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.
Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary
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It mentions tfl, once, in passing, and while dismissing any rules structure rp doesn't like.
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There is a lot of irrelevant stuff in it. A whole chapter on figure scale may have some bearing if you are sculpting the figures yourself but from a rules design point of view 20mm is the same as 25mm, 28mm or 32mm.
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Where can I read said commentary?

I assume the core of the handbook is to roll to hit, then roll to save, at either 33% or 50% increments.
Jeremy wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:54 pm
goat major wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.
Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary
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HMS Priapus wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 8:50 pm Where can I read said commentary?

I assume the core of the handbook is to roll to hit, then roll to save, at either 33% or 50% increments.
Jeremy wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 7:54 pm
goat major wrote: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm I’d be interested in what you think when you’ve finished it. I saw a lot of fairly negative comments on it when it first came out but they mostly came from the anti-bolt action people who would have been negative whatever it said.
Rich Clark was incredibly scathing in his commentary
To be honest, I don’t remember. Either on the TFL blog or his twitter feed
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I was underwhelmed by it. It wasn't terrible, just lightweight and not really offering anything new or substantial you could get your teeth into. I suspect that if you followed their advice (and their clearly stated likes/dislikes) you'd end up writing Warhammer/40K. No bad thing necessarily, but I think that's already been done.

It's one of those single-read titles, so if anyone is going to Hammerhead and wants my copy let me know.
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What I am looking for is a book that helps me write rules, you know puts the technical framework together so others can read it. The ideas and game mechanics side I can do, but a checklist of sections etc. Is where I fall down.
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You are talking about structured writing. Barker is worth using for a tick box template.
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Workbench. All sorts...
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