I haven’t even play-tested the rules and I am getting feedback already!
As you may have noticed from the comments on my last blog entry, one of my readers has asked some very pertinent questions … and made me realise why proof reading is so important. When one sits down to write rules – especially if you are doing it very quickly, as I did with these rules – it is very easy for you assume that you have been explicit as to what you mean. I had done this … and missed some small but very important things that needed clarification. The questions that I was asked – and have answered – have already spurred me to make some minor additions and corrections to the first draft of the rules, and it is this revised draft that I will be play-testing this weekend.
In the meantime, if anyone else spots something that they think is missing, is not clear, or that needs clarification, please contact me – I know that I make mistakes, and I always welcome friendly advice and criticism.
As you may have noticed from the comments on my last blog entry, one of my readers has asked some very pertinent questions … and made me realise why proof reading is so important. When one sits down to write rules – especially if you are doing it very quickly, as I did with these rules – it is very easy for you assume that you have been explicit as to what you mean. I had done this … and missed some small but very important things that needed clarification. The questions that I was asked – and have answered – have already spurred me to make some minor additions and corrections to the first draft of the rules, and it is this revised draft that I will be play-testing this weekend.
In the meantime, if anyone else spots something that they think is missing, is not clear, or that needs clarification, please contact me – I know that I make mistakes, and I always welcome friendly advice and criticism.
I hadn't actually thought of giving design feedback before, but as you've asked - my thoughts have drifted up to an old box of 1914 French & German troops. Looks like my sunday morning has just been decided!
ReplyDeleteHow do you want feedback, by the way? Is there an e-mail address I can send to?
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ReplyDeleteFeedback is always welcome as long as it is constructive.
I made the mistake of asking for feedback about some rules I had written once before, and got a very long list of things that were 'wrong' with them from someone I had never heard from before. When I tried to answer the points the writer had raised, all I got was abuse about how the rules were no good when compared with his favourite rules ... which were not even for the same historical period!
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Bob