Champions of Formatting · Game Master's Laboratory

Champions of Formatting

Working on some projects, I'm becoming more and more interested in the formatting of games. The 5e, prose-heavy standard, especially in adventures they publish, was never a big hit for me. What games (not necessarily TTRPGs) do you find yourself really enjoying just reading and looking at because of how well it's formatted for ease of understanding?

Shadowdark is a great example---it won an Ennie for it, after all---but I'm also a big fan of the layout of the 13th Age adventures like Eye of the Stone Thief (for the most part). It's relatively easy to find stuff, and everything you need is always right there on the page like monster stat blocks and treasure writeups, instead of stuffed away on a later page. They also group encounters in useful bundles, with big sections at the end for those pesky ones that don't fall under particular categories and might clutter it up otherwise

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