Why you should check this out: a recipe-book of ideas and inspiration for mechanics and flavour for bases.
Style: the writing is conversational making it friendly and approachable. A mixture of 2-column and 1-column layouts are used, with clear chapters and headings breaking down the content.
Structure: the thoughts of the designing and intent of the mechanics are discussed at the start of the document and of each chapter which is great to know what to expect.
Content: there are a lot of great ideas for mechanics and flavour for bases. Careful thought has gone into not making these too prescriptive, allowing a referee to pick and choose the ideas that would work best for their table. I love the invisible parrot that repeats conversations.
What might I change?
- Content: the conversational style sometimes gets in the way of the mechanics, I wonder if most of the ideas could be conveyed in half as many words
- Style: the 2-column layout is good for reading longer-form text, and the 1-column layout works well for tables, I wonder if some more consistency with how these are applied would better support the content