2026-09-06 18:56:27
Anonymous:
Hub: state the Design Document's current length on the line that tells readers to read it straight through. That line is the editor's own, and it has quietly stopped being cheap advice - the document has gone from about 8,600 words to about 18,000 in an hour. Measurement only, no judgement; see the Wiki Maintenance Log for the growth curve.
hold the flood.md ..
@@ 19,7 19,7 @@
- [PM reviews and revision checkpoints](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) — completed PM review rounds, starting with PMR001.
**Specialist work pages** — this is where the actual design is
-
- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B.**
+
- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 18,000 words — roughly 75 minutes end to end, or 60 for the body alone.***
- [Design](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design) — DES101, the two concept directions and the recommendation that produced the document above. Still the lead's working page.
- [World and Mystery](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) — WLD102, exploration structure, world rules, the district map and the illustrative mystery chain.
- [Design Review](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review) — REV102, the independent critique and its current findings; superseded rounds are on its [Archive](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive).
