The trouble is, I suppose, that it’s not as sexy to get a good rulebook and as such not as easy and obvious a selling point as cool minis or gorgeous flat art, or even solid graphic design…
Quotes about rulebooks
We made our own flowchart once for a game, and the average steps for a single player’s turn was something like seven or so. The rulebook was something like 14 pages. We counted the total number of page flips we had to go through to get through those seven steps and it was somewhere around 30 some-odd pages (!).
I have to admit. I sometimes think reading the rule book is the best part of the game.
One thing I’ve learned as a designer is that it’s a lot easier to design a game with twenty pages of rules than a game with one page of rules.
A beautiful set of rules is one read, an entree to the main course of the game itself.
