Speaking of which, I am reminded of When Clayton Notestine announced that anyone who struggles to read the Mork Borg core book must have a neurological impairment.

And then they quietly released a version of the book that wasn't completely unreadable. Yeah.

@Taskerland I've always thought it would be good industry practice to always have a base-text version of a game formatted first (because that is a good process anyway, as it means you're writing the game not a magazine), but also it then makes it relatively trivial to make a braille/screen reader version available free. Which I think is just.. what you should do.

@Printdevil I think if you have lots of people complaining that your genius layout has made the text unreadable then it's clearly an accessibility issue.

@Taskerland Both of us know loads of artists who think making art inaccessible is part of the industry.

However, an RPG isn't just art, it's a tool it's a system, it's something you use with people. Making it inaccessible is like having a door that opens into your face. It might pass as kinetic sculpture in performance but it's not for using.

RPGs can be epic, pretty, delightful, aesthetic, vintage.. anything. But they have to have a basic utility, and that's a pretty fucking low bar.

@Taskerland Both of us know loads of artists who think making art inaccessible is part of the industry.

However, an RPG isn't just art, it's a tool it's a system, it's something you use with people. Making it inaccessible is like having a door that opens into your face. It might pass as kinetic sculpture in performance but it's not for using.

RPGs can be epic, pretty, delightful, aesthetic, vintage.. anything. But they have to have a basic utility, and that's a pretty fucking low bar.

@Printdevil I really liked the concept of Mork Borg but the design work put me right off immediately. And even the basic print version hasn't managed to bring me back to it yet. @Taskerland

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