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The CEO of The Game Crafter, JT Smith , was inspired to write this article about rules formatting after an experience at a game night with friends.

"Good formatting of a rules document is just as important as good writing in a rules document. This past weekend some friends and I learned Fast Forward: Fortress, and it’s a blast of a game. I highly recommend you check it out. However, it has a fatal flaw in our opinion."

Read the full article at http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/174886921070/plainblackguy-good-form...

Going to Gen Con? Be sure to get your $4 ticket to The Game Crafter Community Game Night. This is a great opportunity to play new prototypes, get feedback on your own game, and meet other people in the community! Tickets available at https://www.gencon.com/events/127817

It's been ... hell, 3yrs at least since my last post. FanExpo 2014 in Toronto was the last time I recall posting in here. I missed this community so much. I've been working, I've been thinkering, I've been building and I've got so much to tell.

First and foremost, I'm heading to my second Cottage CountryCon in Central Ontario (North of Toronto). It's at Rotary Place in Orillia and the show is on June 23-24. I did well at the show's inaugural year, and they are putting it on again. This time in a larger location in the same city. I have 2 just under 2 weeks to get ready.

Please welcome our newest Sanity Tester, Ken Franklin.

Ken has been designing and collecting games for 55 years, and published his first Apple 2 game in 1980. During his 40 years in military, academic and family medicine, he published 5 more titles for desktops and iPhones. He recently retired from medicine to focus on game design. His first tabletop title, “The Mansky Caper,” will be released by Calliope Games this summer.

What is a Sanity Test?

I spent quite a lot of time thinking about my rewards and stretch goals and manufacturing and shipping and how everything would work together. I'm confident that even if I'd sold 5000 copies, I wasn't going to add anything that would hurt me.

But it's very easy to hurt yourself with too much success, particularly with stretch goals. I was a backer of this Kickstarter campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-re...