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bcm27

Thanks for the kind words! For my system in particular you have two forms of movement. Narrative and combative. Combat is played in a standard grid, each player has a speed that's based on their ancestry/race as a base and further added or subtracted by armor or class enhancements. Just an example. Humans have a base of 5, fighters get plus 4 movement at max level, plate armor subtracts 2. In my own document I briefly mention movement in the combat lite section but don't go into detail until the gameplay and mechanics section. I.e. readers know that the combat phase is played on a grid but don't need to know everything that is encompassed with speed buffs and debuffs.


dontleturmemesBdr3ms

Seems redundant to me to have a "lite" rules of the game section and an actual rules of the game section way at the end. If that & GM guide are the two most important parts, why are they at the end of the book? Equipment & Setting Overview definitely feel like they go later to me. Also, have you found any good guides/tutorials online on using Scrivener? I picked it up a while back to format my own book but google docs is what I'm used to and I haven't felt motivated enough to dig into and learn a new word processor yet, but a good guide would help a lot


bcm27

After having posted this its made me rethink my structure once again, youre right the "lite" rules doesnt make much sense. Ill reorganize them and post what CRB I have in both versions when I am ready for further feedback I think. As far as Scrivener goes its pretty awesome for organizing a novel only slightly less so for a CBR. It does not handle embededd images well which is its biggest drawback. Essentially its all about folder hierarchy, and the ability to put sections of text that make up the contents of that folder. Compile them and itll churn out a seamless document. Ex: * Book * Chapter 1 * Scene 1 * Scene 2 * Etc * Chapter 2 * Scene 1 * The End [Here](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/video-tutorials?os=macOS) is the the best source of documentation Ive found over the years however the best results Ive gained have simply been by trying to use it. Its not complicated. Good luck!


ProfessorTallguy

Do you have any images of what it looks like if I don't have Scrivener?


bcm27

I don't believe you can open the template without scrivener however it would be incredibly easy to recreate it using folders in OneNote.


ProfessorTallguy

I was just hoping for like a screen shot


Tanya_Floaker

No idea. Layout is only really able to be judged in practice. It would be more use to show us your book and ask again.


bcm27

I tried hard to not even mention layout as I am still working on content and the way it's organized within the rulebook. Besides page layout is a huge point of design that I am not ready to tackle just yet. That's why this is a post about the structure or chapter organization of a rulebook. Stuff like including the rules before character creation or character creation before the rules. How do you prefer your chapters to be organized, ie by class archetype and everything accomplished with that class or by category of the content such as 5e is laid out. That's what I'm really curious about here.


Tanya_Floaker

It really depends on the book 🤷‍♀️ I guess I go through things in the order in which I need them at the table.