I was tkaing a couple of weeks off posting but I'm intrigued enough to question this.
Imagine I am a small one or two person outfit. I only have the resources to do one supplement the size of Griffin Mountain (say 256 pages) a year. Because the modern marketplace calls a product with one supplement a year unsupported, I decide to produce four 64 page supplements instead. Following the Griffin Mountain model percentages in our reduced page count, your suggested ideal Sartar regional supplement contains (approximately):
16 pages of scenarios. Following GM most would be 1 page in length,
with a couple of 3 page big 'specials'.
16 pages of encounters. Most are 0.5 to 1 page in size.
7 pages of settings. From towns to caravans (clans in our case) these
are the suggested PC locales, most 1 page in size.
5 pages of resources. Rumors, facts and information available to the
players, most relates to the scenarios, some to scenario ideas.
4 pages of leader stats. Most 0.25 pages in length.
3.5 pages of admin, intro and game advice
3 pages of cults.
1 page of cultural information.
1 page describing neighbouring areas, most a short paragraph.
1 page index.
0.75 pages of history of region 0.75 page gazetter of region. 0.5 page region map. 0.5 pages on ' How to read the stats'
I love Griffin Mountain as much as the next fan, but I'm not sure that the above model is the one I would use. I'm all for playing 'My Dream Glorantha product', but publishers are bound by market realites. I am never going to see that 60 volume Sartarite Doomsday book I dream about. I also suspect it is harder than people think to gain consesus.
Ian Cooper
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