What's on your workbench?

[FreddBloggs]

It is 90% waffle, and 10% bloody obvious. You can gave my copy for postage cost.

[Jeremy]

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

[FreddBloggs]

It mentions tfl, once, in passing, and while dismissing any rules structure rp doesn't like.

[Zenbadger]

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.

[HMS Priapus]

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.

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

[Jeremy]

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.

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

[World2dave]

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.

[FreddBloggs]

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.

[grizzlymc]

You are talking about structured writing. Barker is worth using for a tick box template.

[Count Belisarius]

Workbench. All sorts...

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