Hello everyone, Susan here! You must be staring at the title in utter confusing. Yes, Turkey Breasts are going to help you write a better rulebook and not just by filling your belly so you can concentrate on writing!
I watched last night as Capps struggled to cook turkey breasts. They came in a plastic bag so the meat would marinade and be delicious and such.
But here came the problem. Capps has bought these before where the breasts cook in the bag and other times where you are supposed to take them out. He read over the package over and over and could find no mention of which method he was supposed to use.
This is how turkey breasts taught me something about rulebooks. I've had to go into many rulebooks to try and figure out rules only to find they don't have what I'm looking for there or have ambiguity in the rules that makes it difficult to know what to do. Sometimes it's bad enough that you just have to guess, and you might manage to to guess right. But the game might be ruined or broken if you guess wrong.
Thankfully Capps guessed right on the turkey breasts, he cooked them in the bag and they turned out great. If he had been wrong we would have had a fire more then likely with nasty burnt plastic and a bunch of hungry people in the house.
If your rules are much too ambiguous people may not play your game EVER AGAIN as they may end up with a similar kind of mess in front of them, hopefully gameplay wise and not literally.
So remember when you are writing your rules to not leave them ambiguous and be sure even if something seems incredibly obvious to you that others may not notice it. Until next time this is your resident mustache and rulebook expert Susan reminding you that Every Game Deserves A Good Rulebook.
I watched last night as Capps struggled to cook turkey breasts. They came in a plastic bag so the meat would marinade and be delicious and such.
But here came the problem. Capps has bought these before where the breasts cook in the bag and other times where you are supposed to take them out. He read over the package over and over and could find no mention of which method he was supposed to use.
This is how turkey breasts taught me something about rulebooks. I've had to go into many rulebooks to try and figure out rules only to find they don't have what I'm looking for there or have ambiguity in the rules that makes it difficult to know what to do. Sometimes it's bad enough that you just have to guess, and you might manage to to guess right. But the game might be ruined or broken if you guess wrong.
Thankfully Capps guessed right on the turkey breasts, he cooked them in the bag and they turned out great. If he had been wrong we would have had a fire more then likely with nasty burnt plastic and a bunch of hungry people in the house.
If your rules are much too ambiguous people may not play your game EVER AGAIN as they may end up with a similar kind of mess in front of them, hopefully gameplay wise and not literally.
So remember when you are writing your rules to not leave them ambiguous and be sure even if something seems incredibly obvious to you that others may not notice it. Until next time this is your resident mustache and rulebook expert Susan reminding you that Every Game Deserves A Good Rulebook.