Redoing Core Rules examples

(I've been having some trouble connecting to Blogger. I can see my dashboard and stats, but I can't see the blog pages (mine or anyone else's) unless I connect with my smartphone. I'm using wifi tethering to make this post from my laptop.)

So, this past week, I didn't have much time to spend on the things I wanted to do. Some nights I only had 20 minutes or so to do some editing. I'm trying to trim the core rules down to be clearer to understand and easier to present. I'm looking at things that I wrote a long time ago when I started. I thought that this section was done but now that I look at it again with fresh eyes, I can see that many of these examples are just terrible. I need to redo a lot of them. They have too much going on; they don't focus only on the point that needs to be illustrated. I think I wanted to show the example cases in a larger context, but now I realize that it's better to have a more focused example to just make the point clear. Also, some of them are just not very interesting situations.

I'm having trouble visualizing how I want to lay this section out. I want to make it a little more graphical rather than just blocks of text. But how do I lay this out to fit everything on the page that should go together? It's hard to do. I'm thinking of using some mind-mapping or diagramming software to try laying things out in a simple flowchart or something, but I might just go completely low tech with it. I learned layout back in the days of light boxes when "cut and paste" literally referred to scissors and glue. I'm thinking of just printing things out, cutting them up, and arranging things on my floor to plan how I want to lay them out before using my layout software to make the digital pages. Doing things fully digitally would be nice, but it's just too hard with a small landscape laptop screen and a touchpad. A big monitor (or two) and a decent mouse (or better yet, some kind of stylus and tablet) would make this a lot easier but I don't have the work space for a setup like that. I don't even have a desk!

During my recent attempt to redo the character sheet, I discovered that I don't like the damage system. The damage system has been there since the beginning in a provisional "good enough for now and I'll sort it out later" form but I don't like it now that I really look at it. I've got an idea forming in my head right now for how I'd like to handle it, but it's not solidified yet. Maybe that will be next on my "To Do" list after I clean up the examples and settle on the layout for the core rules section. I already know how I want to handle healing, but I need to sort out the damage system before I can do the healing in detail.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm just being a perfectionist and fretting too much over little things.