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Into the Dungeon: Revived — Rules for fantastic adventure games playable with paper and pencil and polyhedral dice.
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Dark Latex D&D5e Template
I love the LaTEX template for Ilaris: https://github.com/Ilaris-Tools/IlarisTex
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.
I tried the Genesis RPG latex template, which is quite nice : https://github.com/n1c0x/star-wars-latex/tree/master/dev/GenesysRPG
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
I made some supplements for the TTRPG Monster of the Week; this is the template I created. Here are the finished products. The style is designed to mimic the original MotW books, so it's not directly useful for a Shadowrun-type game. But maybe it can give you some ideas.
Into The Dungeon: Revived is written in latex, and is CC-BY-SA. Additionally, the Cairn Bestiary is written using a tex template.
Into The Dungeon: Revived is written in latex, and is CC-BY-SA. Additionally, the Cairn Bestiary is written using a tex template.