Re: [dq-rules] Re: DragonQuest Numbering/Index

[rthorm@cornellbox.com]

Quoting dbarrass_2000 <david.barrass@ed.ac.uk>:
> 
> I  presume we could add sections eg 9  - Spirits & Religion etc
> 
> > Rule numbering would follow the form:
> > 8-255-a
> > for example to refer to the currency conversion rule [2nd Ed 81.1]
> >
> 
> Sorry I don't like this, what if you have 27? Why can't we just
> continuing nubering beyond 9 eg 8-255-16. For house rules it would be
> 8-255-DNA-19 if I made a change
> 

Hi David,

  I thought that using letters to identify individual rule paragraphs was
allowing a lot more latitude.  Nowhere in any of the original material does SPI
use more than 9 paragraphs to a rule.  In my view (and I've tried to follow
that same stricture with the pieces I've written), anything that has more than
26 paragraphs can probably be broken down into two or three rules, rather than
just one.

  I was pretty sure it was your numbering scheme I was recalling, but I wasn't
certain, and I didn't want to ascribe something to you that wasn't your doing.

  Since I'm trying to cover more than just house rules, I don't want to clutter
the numbering with author identifiers.  I do want to be sure to give full
credit to all authors and contributors (something which the Linux community is
finding that they need to do a better job at doing).  I'm planning on covering
that in the Licensing section (which should probably be called Licensing and
Credits).

  For those of you not familiar with the Creative Commons license, you can see
some information here:
   http://www.rpglibrary.org/oogl/creativecommons_by-sa.html
and at the Creative Commons site here: 
   http://creativecommons.org/

  Spirits and Religion could be section 9.  It is certainly a subject that the
2nd edition doesn't cover, but the draft you have written is a good selection
for that.  Some rules for alternate planes of existence (Demons come from one,
Efreets come from another, but a coherent discussion of the planes is never
provided) could be another, or might be incorporated therein as well.

  --Rodger




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