Top 4 TeX Rpg Projects

DND-5e-LaTeX-Template

33 1,384 0.0 TeX

LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".

Project mention: LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-17

> 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.

DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Template

2 82 7.9 TeX

LaTeX package to typeset character sheets for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".

Project mention: LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-17

> 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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PF2e-TeX

3 14 2.3 TeX

A (very beta) Pathfinder second edition LaTeX style, for making documents and books that look like PF2e (which hopefully looks like the playtest stuff)

Project mention: Where are you guys getting the templates for these things? | /r/Pathfinder2eCreations | 2023-07-09

If you're savvy and want to do longer, more complex stuff there's also https://github.com/serialhex/PF2e-TeX, but it's much more complicated and probably unnecessary for most use-cases.

CARPS

3 1 5.8 TeX

Craps Accessible Role-Play System (CARPS)

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