Author: Peter C. Spahn (---.prserv.net)
Date: 10-13-2005 17:47
80,000 words and 180,000 words seem awfully high for RPG supplements. A 300 page novel accounts for about 80-100,000 words. That's straight text, with about 30-40 plain chapter headings. No art, no fancy chapter headings, no stat blocks, no tables or charts. By that count, an 80,000 word adventure would rival most core rulebooks, and I couldn't even begin to fathom how many pages a 180,000 word supplement would require. My average for a 20 page adventure, fully statted, is about 30,000 _characters_, which, if you go by 5 characters = 1 word, is about 6,000 words, give or take. So, maybe I can begin to fathom it. A 180,000 page supplement would be about 600 pages long, minus art and layout. I realize you were only giving examples, but you're quoting figures that seem way out of range. Am I missing something here?
Pete
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