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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nedjer" data-source="post: 5254061" data-attributes="member: 83796">I sincerely hope there'll be a crunchy and fluffy, rules medium to heavy AD&D 7.0e in luxurious, unblemished hardback with tons of quality artwork.Just not sure such things will happen if there aren't more RPG players, which means offering easy paths into TRPGs, lowering or removing entry costs, making TRPGs customisable and making the market open to micro-monetisationI'm talking in terms of adding choice and giving players complete control from stripped-down minimalist to 'fancy' styling. Videos or links to videos showing rules being explained, good play, 'the 2012 campaign' or other personal content might appeal to some. Can't say I use it but I do like to stripe the tables and shown white text on black like here. I've also replaced the illustrations with art from Wikimedia Commons. If it was my kind of thing I might pay to put in images from a WotC artist or for a Halloween styling for one night a year. A great many players won't want to complete the few steps involved in doing that themselves. But stick a button on the page to change fonts and settings, or reduce it to a quick 'drag' or install routine, and people with different preferences and visual requirements will often want to choose their own settings.One browser against another is not a problem so long as the source, i.e. the basic game, is html, css and svg W3C web standards compliant.This goes beyond the soucebook. Talking also in terms of taking that 'art pack' I made or bought (saw a Final Fantasy image pack app along similar lines recently) and use it to decorate my character sheets or stick it on a card to 'flesh out' the introduction of a new NPC. The concept goes beyond the rules, which is why Treasure comes with all its artwork. Few people are going to put lots of graphics into their games if they have to start from scratch. And we still need to go on and make the artwork accessible by delivering pre-styling of the artwork, so it's easy to get the images just as you like.The Traveller SRD or 3.5 are open to similar approaches but Treasure is good to go, i.e. how easy is quick, editable (in your word processor) conversion of Treasure html to PDF? Open html in Word 2007 Save as .docx 30 secs Remove a couple of awkward images too large for page Add a couple of line breaks Copy working copy of TOC with working links and paste over copy at bottom Save Save as PDF Check PDF (if any images scroll to repaginate cleanly)  5 minutes start to finish – functional, linked PDF of v1.4 on my desktop. Even the interactive charts seem to link, (but look for a local html copy as set). OpenOffice is pretty much the same: into swriter, .odt format and avoid PDF/ A default and you have to put the table borders back in. More editing in the word processor would improve layout before burning. Suddenly our clumsy copy and paste from a PDF (formatting collapsed) is an easily customised word processor document and you can burn selections or copies as PDFs with ease.  Overall, a lot of access/ options, as it doesn't get much easier than editing in a word processor. Here it is teh result. The only currently published pdf version straight from the word file. When it's that easy to customise . . .</blockquote>

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