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Looks great!

Highlights:

  • Taking on an injury or a flaw is a nice way to lean into the pirate genre
  • The use of public domain art

Constructive Criticism:

  • The Meet the Pirates section coming before the The Rules section means that a reader is either looking at the characters with little context for what most of their stuff means, or they're flipping past the characters to learn how the game works before flipping back.
  • A couple of different fonts might help the graphic design evoke the era, like a distressed font for display text and a serif font for body text.

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm working on a revised version that addresses both pieces of your feedback. I still like the idea of getting the characters in front of the reader early, but it will just be a small bio section & some notes on playstyle for each character, like I've seen in other submissions. The full character sheets will be moved to the end.

I was running low on time and wasn't able to do as much for the presentation of the doc. I'm working on fixing that now, completely redoing the layout in affinity to improve readability and make the doc more interesting overall. You do have a great point regarding using a Serif font though. I almost always go Sans Serif because I personally like it better, but a Serif Font would aboslutely be more evocative. I'll take a look into distressed fonts for headers.

Thanks again!