Fallout 2d20 ruleset feedback and suggestions
We are preparing for some Fallout games in near future (with very high level of enthusiasm, because of the killer looking ruleset!), and until then I am providing some feedback from the perspective of me as GM and two group of players below.
- Font size for body text - the body font is very small for all my players, myself including. They have from 1080p to 4k systems. Also, because we use electric green + black background, as in the old eye-burning CRT days, eye fatigue creeps in fast and is super heavy after short session of rules checking and item browsing. The scaleui is not a solution to this problem, because it increase every interface element and makes matter worse for the laptop users My suggestion is to provide extension that increase the font size for the body text or in general increase the font size (looking at the overall design, it should not break any interface element).
- Images quality - many great looking images from the PDF look with artifacts in FGU. It seems the level of compression is too high and kills the crisp looking product. I got the "dated" remark.
- Reference manual - The wish here is to have the book split in two - player and GM sections. There is no reason to share all NPC and other details with players. There are many people that have no remorse to cheat or sneak peek at stuffs that aren't supposed to be there. I know that if they have the PDF, there is nothing preventing them to do so, but still the approach taken with D&D and other product is really welcomed here. GM will be able to selectively share NPCs, rather than having the whole gang visible day 1.
- More descriptive image names - names could be more user-friendly, rather than file-system like :)
Some enhancement suggestions
- Party overview in party sheet - everyone loves the principle of party overview in party sheet in 5e. To see stats and key info of each in the group. Maybe for future enhancement.
- Allow in GM options to prevent opening of character wizard on empty sheet. Player's don't want the wizard opened every time automatically.
- Increase font size on tabs on PC and NPC sheets (yeah, this links to the first feedback) to be more visible.