Scrolls?
Andy Kitkowski:
I just did a lightning-quick search, no real investigation or anything.
In Japan, you can buy blank scrolls of varying quality. This one is a very nice scroll, at a size of 18cm by 273cm. That's an incredible amount of usable space, probably could fit an entire bible to that depending on how you write. The price is about $65 on sale. Smaller ones are $45-50.
http://www.yumegazai.com/default.asp?mode=product&pc=ts-jm003-004
Good luck!
-Andy
Andy Kitkowski:
And sorry for the third post in a row, but I've been thinking here and there about, "What would a game in the form of a scroll *look like*? How would it be laid out?
It would take a ton of work, unless you just slap pages in order into the scroll (which takes away the point of writing it on the scroll).
But I'd like to see someone try it, in English anyway.
-Andy
Valamir:
We had actually, mostly jokingly, talked about doing a scroll format for Blood Red Sands.
We chose to bind the Ashcan along the top edge so we'd have that oversized vertical scroll look (complete with scroll graphics at the top and bottom).
This thread makes me wonder if perhaps a limited edition printing as a scroll would be doable...
Ron Edwards:
Two thoughts ...
1. Dice tubes are standard items. If the production concept includes the possibility of a smaller format (as opposed to the ginormous two-handed "emperor's decree" scroll), then a tube about 8" long might be easy to bring into the design. I dunno about the document itself.
2. Wasn't there a pirate boardgame about six or eight years ago that came rolled-up in a tube - basically a cloth treasure map? I did some desultory searching but you can just imagine what you get when you type "pirate game" into a search engine. It was pretty high-end, though.
Best, Ron
David Artman:
Printing and cutting: trivial, but likely expensive due to non-standard handling of the press output. But, yeah, most web presses could print a scroll 60" wide and, like, thousands of feet long.
Rolling: not so trivial. In fact, the printer is likely to want to just send you flats and let you do the rolling and tube stuffing.
Tube printing: trivial. Track down a press that does packaging.
Layout: Hmmm..... at first blush, I think a highly formal, linear-process game would work well. Something in which the need for rules references "advances" in a way that takes advantage of the roll-out/roll-up handling of a scroll. I'd favor a left-to-right orientation over a top-to-bottom, but that's just an instinct about ease of use at a table. Obviously, any game which is effectively memorized after first or second reading would work, too--very little or no reason to use the scroll for reference. And it could be, maybe, cool in a game which requires simultaneous reference--folks sitting side-by-side, to reference stuff at different stages of the scroll (frex: a script of some sort, where GM uses one ref and Player uses another, a bit further down the scroll).
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