Who created this 'Revolutionary RPG Format'?

[darjr]

I do love the idea of a more phone friendly format. And the PR plan of giving away the book for a few days is awesome. Thanks!

 

[GMMichael]

Were there any links to Libyan or Tanzanian websites in the release?

 

[LordEntrails]

Why not just use an already established format like epub or mobi? And then you only need one file, note one for phones and one for larger devices...

 

[darjr]

I haven’t liked either of those formats for rpg books.
In large part because the pdf tools I have are far superior for running games.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

Why not just use an already established format like epub or mobi? And then you only need one file, note one for phones and one for larger devices...

Designing a consistent UX for the platform audiences are on is one of our principles. Here's the list of formats for #ZweihanderRPG:

Traditional Print
ePub
Kindle
Traditional digital pdf (ePDF)
Phone PDF
Roll20 Compendium (Dec 2019)
HTML5 SRD (2020)

 

[LordEntrails]

Designing a consistent UX for the platform audiences are on is one of our principles. Here's the list of formats for #ZweihanderRPG:

Traditional Print
ePub
Kindle
Traditional digital pdf (ePDF)
Phone PDF
Roll20 Compendium (Dec 2019)
HTML5 SRD (2020)

Curious, are you using a content management system like ArborText so you only have to devlope it once or are you authoring it in a traditional layout tool and then duplicating and re-organizing it for each platform?

 

[Morrus]

Here we go.

DriveThruRPG Creates Phone PDFs

DriveThruRPG.com is proud to announce the Phone PDF, a new format designed specifically for handheld mobile devices. At the RPG gaming ...

oneblogshelf.blogspot.com

 

[aramis erak]

My wife and I had the same reaction to this press release: how is it revolutionary to have a larger font to make it easier to read and to reformat it? It's not different than a mobile view and a desktop view for a website...

Laying out text for good viewing experience on a phone using a fixed format like PDF is quite an art... I've been occasionally doing cheat sheets designed specifically for my players' common 4" phone screens.

Looking at the phone-pdf on my laptop, this will be marginally readable on my 5" phone; the normal one is totally unreadable on my phone.

A for effort, C- for execution. A proper illustrated ePub would have been a better choice. (and you can bind custom fonts into an ePub.)

 

[LordEntrails]

A for effort, C- for execution. A proper illustrated ePub would have been a better choice. (and you can bind custom fonts into an ePub.)

Well, according to the post a couple above yours, epub format (and others) is/are available.

 

[aramis erak]

Loaded the phone-PDF on my kindle oasis 7" eInk...
Links don't seem to work other than the TOC entries.
Text is small but (barely) readable; the layout is narrower than the oasis.
I stick by A for effort, C- for execution.

(For comparison, I opened the Tales from the Loop PDF on same said 7" kindle... text is a little smaller in TFL, but that's laid out for A4.... and displayed at 48% of layout size... )