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covok
@covok

My brothers and sisters in Christ, to all the PbtA Devs, because we seem to be the only motherfuckers who do this, do not say "the playbooks are available online so we aren't putting them in the print book."

For the love of god, pay the extra 2 dollars a book to print them. Otherwise, in twenty years when every download link to them is gone forever because the internet is ephemeral, your game will be literally unplayable.

I swear to God, people forget how easily shit is lost on the internet. It boggles my brain when I was chatting with people and say they put loads of effort into a game but have no interest in a PDF for it and want to keep it a website.

Maybe it's because I was around when the internet started but your site will die one day, anything that can be saved to a harddrive or kept in print media will keep it alive when that day comes.

While we are on the subject, helpful bit of advice here: back up your google docs of your game dev work every so often. I got a large hard drive so I do it every year or so. It can save a lot of heartache. Also, try to keep it on a thumbdrive as well in case your harddrive dies.


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in reply to @covok's post:

That’s why for our project we intend to make PDF versions of all our homebrew and lore stuff/stories. There’s gotta be backups somewhere. If we branch out to making our own system, we won’t be taking risks.