to make the final pdf version my rpg/homebrew?
I'm not going to sell anything, I just want to make it as neat as possible because why not.
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What program should I use
to make the final pdf version my rpg/homebrew?
I'm not going to sell anything, I just want to make it as neat as possible because why not.
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Google docs. No need to get fancy.
>I'm not going to sell anything
As tempting as it sounds, you probably neither should you consider it running it too. Just keep it as a experiment to pass the time.
>you probably neither should you consider it running it too.
what?
You are a special kind of shit aren't you?
Keyword here is "probably".
You're absolutely free to try and I hope you succeed at it, but custom made systems 90% of the times tend to sound good on paper than how they're played in reality. Especially if it's something you fully wrote yourself without anyone else revising it.
That's only a problem if you're not playtesting while designing, which you're supposed to do. You do know you're supposed to playtest your games, right?
As moronic as is, docs has served me pretty well. Decent font selection, image capabilities, easy to use. Shit for specialised stuff like dynamic page number references, but for that you want Affinity.
No, frick adobe.
OP may as well use Word if he is using docs. I didnt find it in the minimum readable when someone tried to do "good looking" things with it.
>you probably neither should you consider it running it too
Scribus, fast but fancy.
Scribus is nice.
I like libre office draw
Second this, Libreoffice Draw + Writer is what I used for my PbtA game, and it has been absolutely incredible. The styles function has saved me so much time formatting and updating text. Also good if you want to make your own character sheets.
Did you do double column?
Nah, didn't really find it necessary. The whole pdf is just a few pages anyways, there's not enough text to warrant double columns. Additionally, I have shit eyes, and can't read double columns without really zooming in.
Got it, I use Libreoffice too for local work and some stuff offline then finish or sharing with gdocs. I use the spreadsheed more thought.
Google docs is great for getting a lot of simple text out at once. For example, when I play D&D, I use a frick ton of homebrew ofc. So I use docs because it allows me to just throw out a whole bunch of simple text and immediately share it with all my players.
I should use spreadshit more tbh, I haven't found a lot of use for it that can't be done with Libre Writer, but for organizing massive amounts of stats it could be really useful. But generally, I just use the insert table function in Libre. Spreadsheets would be good for organizing Shadowrun weapon stats now that I think about it.
why did I type tbh, I have never used tbh in a sentence
the voices
Some american slang is not permitted on this anime website, and gets replaced with its rough Japanese equivalent. I think it's fun tbh. Hello new friend.
You got me, I'm new. Been on imageboards for a long time, but when my home board went down, I decided to come here.
Its a holdover from early Ganker before election squatters started shitting up every other board instead of staying in their bullshit containment boards. Sadly, newer American slang hasn't gotten a similar anime themed censorship treatment.
Its an obvious giveaway you're new, since that text replacement filter has been a thing pretty much forever. Hi.
>text replacement filter has been a thing pretty much forever
It came in with hiroshimoot... That's not that long ago.
>hiroshimoot
Did it? ... (Checking 4plebs)
Ignore me. I am apparently moronic. It was not a thing in 2010 like I thought it was, though it does predate the election squatters.
That was almost 10 years ago anon... I'm sorry...
>hiroshimoot
Who?
Smh Tbh Senpai was some old Twitter catchphrase that used to get spammed almost a decade ago.
InDesign
Kill your self shill
>Kill your self shill
moron, nothing was said about purchasing it.
Most of the fancy shit people use InDesign for that you cannot do in google docs, you can do in word. You can get a perpetual ms office licence on stack social for $60 I you don't have one. Don't go for monthly subs. They're a trap.
I mean, if you don't mind the faint taste of D&D, there's always the Homebrewery. People have developed some neat asset packs for it.
A 15 minutes video proving Scribus is easy
Plus is free.
Paper and a scanner.
nice, I was just thinking of asking this question because I wanna make CP2020 one shots and historical wargame scenarios to post for free online and I wanted the presentation to at least be nice.
Same but wish I knew where to find formatting (and publishing?) advice.
Honestly, I've forgone the use of PDFs entirely in favor of Obsidian Vaults, and/or exporting to Epub.
For a quick object lesson, try reading Fate Core as a PDF, then compare that to their ebook editions, and then compare that to the Fate SRD. Makes you realize how much PDF sucks as a means of providing a digestible means of learning a system or conveying information, and its main purpose is to carry the layout and artwork you would only find valuable with a physical copy.
Digital Notebooks and Ebooks are the way to go. The notebook option (Obsidian, Joplin, Tiddlywiki, Evernote) is particularly useful for personal use as the information for campaign and system can be contained in one place, and organized in a way that suits your needs best.
What are you using to make your epubs?
Obsidian has a nice export feature, but for a quick and dirty route, Docs has an add on to export.
Actually, on that point, if you have too much time on your hands, if you open a pdf with Word(or split it into 60 page segments, upload it to your Drive, and open them in Docs, because Google has a size limit on converting pdf pages) you get a fairly workable form of the raw text, images, and tables of your rpg, that you can then spend too much time editing using Headings, and THEN export it as an Epub.
Regular MS Word
overleaf
seems good, is it hard to use?
LaTeX is hard to use. Yes, many free tools exist but you need to get familiar with a markup language (that is "programming language" for the non- programmers).
I use LaTeX myself, I know what I am talking about.
you need LaTeX. Overleaf.com is good for getting started but you may want a local setup (MiKTeX + a code editor or a dedicated TeX editor) if you really want to pimp your pdf
Microsoft publisher or Adobe indesign
Really any LaTeX editor (you) like. I recommend MikTeX if you're on Windows (iirc there's als a KDE version of that). Overleaf if you're terminally online.
What is it with /tg/ and freemium shit
A good chunk of it is Ganker's anti-shill culture, and /tg/ being the home of the Share Thread. The rest is the surprising amount of fa/tg/uys who do programming/scripting, and are thus familiar with the FOSS ecosystem, but don't want to get involved with the nonsense that is Ganker.
Nice reading comprehension. There's a worrying lack of FOSS on this board.
lmao I can agree with both
>What is it with /tg/ and freemium shit
It's crazy, I've been using pirated photoshop since the 90s but newbies are sperging like Adobe is only available through a cloud subscription lol
suppose I can throw money at the problem.
what is th ebest paid software?
Do adobe has anything?
Maybe find a program that dumbs down LaTeX? I am unsure the market is ehat it was and many just use Scribus or go to learn LaTeX because it has everything.
I already know latex for work.
I did monster manual in Latex.
I had to fix the shit later in adobe editor.
Latex does not allow the level of customization for an art project.
Adobe illustrator allows this kind of csutomization but it is too much, too much work for every page.
Something in between that does both.
Do you know how master pages work in indesign?
For anons that just need text formatted into a nice PDF, there's gmbinder and scribe pf2tools, both of which just take markdown text and formats (with live preview)
Meaning you can write everything in Obsidian or a similar editor then copy-paste over when it's time to export.
LyX is piss easy. Even more easy than Scribus. Like, moron easy.
Is LaTeX on the background if you want to do advanced stuff.