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nipajin
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
> Creating a theme for tabletop role-playing games would take some elbow grease
The article links to several, including a convincing reproduction of basic Wizards of the Coast house style for D&D 5E:
https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
Here's another 5E one with additional sidebar styles:
https://github.com/anoderay/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template/
Also 5E-inspired, with a template for card accessories:
https://github.com/Krozark/RPG-LaTeX-Template
A 5E-compatible character sheet:
https://github.com/matsavage/DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Sheet-Te...
CTAN also has packages for Basic D&D-inspired typesetting (rpg-module, also linked from the article), GURPS (gurps), generic hex boards (hexboard), and wargame hex boards with counters (wargame).
There are also indie TTRPGs that've shipped using custom LaTeX templates; this one has CC-BY licensed source: https://github.com/ludus-leonis/nipajin
And the blog author's own, with a more restrictive CC-NC-SA license: https://github.com/Vladar4/itdr
From personal experience, the biggest struggle is non-rectangular text wrapping around images.
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LaTEX template for an RPG book
Having said that, have a look at this non-Context template, too, which is quite impressive in showing that you can't really automatically tell that it's done by LaTeX: https://github.com/ludus-leonis/nipajin
- Does anyone use LaTeX for publishing?
ShadowTeXSR5
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LaTEX template for an RPG book
I wrote a LaTeX class and layout once to recreate the look-and-feel of SR5 rulebooks, for homebrew stuff (and just as a TeX challenge to myself). It was a hell of a lot of work and I had to dirty hack several underlying TeX placement rules and aspects. Though to be fair, most of that was because of the distinct "challenge" of recreating an already existing style as closely as possible. So if you're more free in how you want it to look, it's probably a lot easier to achieve. Still, you're a lot less free in where you want to place things compared to a WYSIWYG layout program.
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template for homebrew pdf
If you know LaTeX then you can use this: https://github.com/Suthek/ShadowTeXSR5
What are some alternatives?
star-wars-latex - Latex version of Star Wars documents
IlarisTex - Ein alternatives ähnliches Ilaris Latex Template
DND-5e-LaTeX-Template - LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
YearOfMonsters
RPG-LaTeX-Template - A Small Template For RPG book
cairn
DND-5e-LaTeX-Template - A Small Template For 5e D&D Material
DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Template - LaTeX package to typeset character sheets for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
itdr - Into the Dungeon: Revived — Rules for fantastic adventure games playable with paper and pencil and polyhedral dice.
emacs-org-dnd - org-mode wrapper for DND-5e-LaTeX-Template