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As I mentioned previously, I realized early on that I'd need to tweak the rules to fit the new gameboard and score card. Mostly, this just means changing a few words and references to coincide with the different layout.
I also wanted to add some flavour text to expand the story -- really just to explain why the score sheet is a bowling score sheet. Tweaking the rules was easy, but I found that the story part was difficult. I couldn't decide how to approach it and I had three very different ideas: humorous, serious, and irreverent. I started with humorous, but quickly discarded it after re-reading what Mads already had, which seemed to have more of a serious feel to it.
So naturally I tried irreverent next. Aaaaand... it didn't work out. Oh, I liked it well enough, but the proliferation of four-letter words and colourful metaphors made it decidedly NOT kid-friendly.
Serious it is -- and I tried to keep it fairly brief so as not to make the rule book into an actual book.
In addition to the above, I toyed around with adding graphics to it. While it did look good, the graphics took up space and almost doubled the number of pages. Simple is good: I ended up scrapping all the graphics and opting instead for a beefed-up title and some thematic header fonts.
Just to reiterate: I have NOT changed any of the rules for playing the game. I've done some re-wording and moving around of things, but that's it.
It's pretty close to being done now. Anyone interested in taking a look can view it here: DotLD Alternative Rules Draft (PDF)
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Actually, most of the time I spent on the rules was deciding whether to include images. Leaving the images out was the way to go; the extra length they would have added to the rules just wasn't worth it.
