Creating A Table Of Contents For Drone Drifters

I wasn't super satisfied with the list I came up with in the previous blog post for the remaining work needed on Drone Drifters. I still think the things I laid out in that post are relevant and I believe that it was important to get those thoughts out of my head and onto paper, but I'm hoping to break down this large amorphous burden of work that forms when I think about Drone Drifters into a bunch of smaller, more manageable chunks.

To that end, in this post I'm just gonna try to craft a version one of a Table of Contents for the game, to act as both a list of the content that the game requires, and a first pass at how that content should be organized. The table below may also include some minor things that a traditional Table of Contents page might skip, just so I can visualize those pieces in context of the more major sections.

• Front Cover
• Credits and Designer Info
• Table of Contents
• Overview/Introduction
  • Humanity: a refuge race
  • What kind of game is Drone Drifters?
  • Touchstones/Inspirations
  • What do you need to play?
• Creating a Drifter
  • Name, Age, Pronouns
  • Callsign
    • Callsigns table
  • Careers
  • Stars
  • Scars
  • Cohesion
  • Stamina
• Rules of Play
  • Phases of play
    • Drone Combat
    • Downtime
• Drone Combat
  • Initiative
  • Drift Dice
  • Activation
    • Move
    • Activate a System
    • Drift
  • Drones
    • Stats
    • Systems
    • Hex Facing and Arcs
  • Actions
    • Move
    • Activate A System
      • Activation Costs
      • Range
      • Damage
      • Special Effects
    • Drift
      • Drift Bounce
  • Taking Damage
    • Wrecked
    • Destroyed
• Downtime
  • Tests
  • Downtime Actions
    • Work
    • Repair
    • Train
    • Rest
    • Study
• Advancement
• Drone Classes
  • Fighter
  • Cruiser
  • Destroyer
  • Carrier
  • Artillery
  • Survey
  • Tender
  • Miner
  • Hauler
  • Personnel Transport
  • Luxury Liner
  • Colony Seed
• For the GM
• Bestiary
  • Enemy Templates
  • Factions
  • Enemy Combatants
• Special Thanks
  • Beyond Legend
• Creator's License
• Index
• Back Cover

I've also been toying with the idea of baking in some assumptions about the campaign--giving it some basic structure and story threads that the players can latch onto in their own campaigns. Below are some truncated aspects that should be included if I choose to go that route.

• The Dream of Ana
  • Layout
  • Personnel
  • Missions
• The Universe
  • Aliens Species
    • Culture
    • History
  • Locations
• Drifter Ranks/Special Advancement