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Re:Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful [pdf] by d3VwsX on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:38PM (#42308812)
Old boardgame (wargame) rulebooks used to have numbered sections and subsections. I often miss that in modern rulebooks, even if some wargame rulebooks still have them luckily. It is so much easier to discuss the rules of a game when you have unambiguous identifiers for every paragraph rather than having to come up with ad-hoc vague references to some page and location below a heading.

The linked article has numbered sections, which is nice, allowing for specific references like "in Section 2.3" or "Figure 14.4", but the example rulebooks discussed from what I can tell do not.

Re:Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful [pdf] by allturtles on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:51PM (#42308966)
Yep. I think it's avoided by most modern rules writers because it looks intimidating and technical to many people. Among modern non-wargames, the authoritative rules for Root (Law of Root) do have this feature: http://root.livingrules.io/