StevenGEmsley Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 So, I’ve begun my project. Possibly quite daft, but I’ve started. See, for years…ever since TSR released A Mighty Fortress in their Historical series for AD&D...I’ve gamed in that era and milieu. Even if I’ve GM’d straight fantasy with goblins and dragons, it’s always been set in pike-and-shot era Europe. However, AD&D was woefully inappropriate to the period, so I’ve always adapted. Then Renaissance came along and, as a ruleset it was perfect. And because it was BRP, I could nick from all kinds of different sources. However, one thing I dislike in play, particularly when players aren’t all au fait with the rules is to say “okay guys, character generation is in this book here…there are a couple more skills in this book, and some more factions in this book and this book and those notes, and…” See what I mean? So, I have Renaissance: Deluxe, Dark Streets, Clockwork & Chivalry, Clockwork & Cthulhu, A Clockwork of Orange (oh, those factions!!), Pirates & Dragons, various incarnations of Call of Cthulhu and Runequest, Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore, dozens of magazine articles and of course HR4: A Mighty Fortress all in pdf. And I have Adobe Acrobat. So my project is to compile a single document, organised so all the relevant information is in the right chapters, all cross-referenced and properly indexed, all looking nice and pretty, with all the options in there (a chapter on the Mythos, a chapter on Clockwork, a chapter on folklore, a chapter on witches and so on). And then get a copy printed up into a single, probably stupidly expensive, hardcover for personal use. Is that weird? Yep, that’s weird. However, it’s a weird hobby and I’m a weird guy, so… Wish me luck!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThornPlutonius Posted March 26, 2019 Report Share Posted March 26, 2019 Luck to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questbird Posted March 29, 2019 Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 Sounds like a Renaissance Big Gold Book project. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenGEmsley Posted March 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2019 2 hours ago, Questbird said: Sounds like a Renaissance Big Gold Book project. Good luck! Actually, that's a very good way of looking at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 On 3/26/2019 at 10:41 AM, StevenGEmsley said: So my project is to compile a single document, organised so all the relevant information is in the right chapters, all cross-referenced and properly indexed, all looking nice and pretty, with all the options in there (a chapter on the Mythos, a chapter on Clockwork, a chapter on folklore, a chapter on witches and so on). And then get a copy printed up into a single, probably stupidly expensive, hardcover for personal use. I've done that for PraxPack and PavisPack in Glorantha, collated all the articles on Pavis and Prax into two massive PDFs, probably over 1000 pages each. I haven't printed them out, though. However, as most pages are images, it isn't searchable, which is a right royal pain. Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenGEmsley Posted March 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Everything on Prax and Pavis?? My god, man, that must have taken a while!!! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted March 30, 2019 Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) 7 minutes ago, StevenGEmsley said: Everything on Prax and Pavis?? My god, man, that must have taken a while!!! 😁 Everything I could find. It helped that I have a large number of scanned PDFs, some time on my hands and used PDFTK. Basically, I went through the PDFs, noted the page numbers of sections relating to Pavis/Prax in a text file, then write a batch job to extract the pages into a series of PDFs and another to combine them. I was going to put in a Table of Contents, but it would have been too haphazard. I don't have Adobe Acrobat, but PDFTK is really good at that kind of thing and I'd advise doing it that way. You could always tart it up a bit in Adobe Acrobat afterwards. One thing I do regret it not having good enough OCR software to convert to text. Had I had that, it would be awesome. Edited March 30, 2019 by soltakss Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenGEmsley Posted March 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2019 Hey man, if you want to borrow my login to Adobe Document Cloud, it can convert it to a Word docx file in a matter of minutes... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenGEmsley Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 Almost finished... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecorpse Posted March 19, 2022 Report Share Posted March 19, 2022 How’s it going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Csipke Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 On 3/19/2022 at 1:02 AM, werecorpse said: How’s it going? One of Steve's players here, it's a thing of beauty. Printed out on parchment paper and in a leather binder, it's huge! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomedpc Posted September 21, 2022 Report Share Posted September 21, 2022 Damn it, now I want one! 🙂 Quote Peter Cakebread Cakebread&WaltonO:) Purveyors of Fine Imaginings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Csipke Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 It took a load of work, but it's such a useful reference in play to have everything in the one binder. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Csipke Posted September 22, 2022 Report Share Posted September 22, 2022 13 hours ago, doomedpc said: Damn it, now I want one! 🙂 And I've just realised who you are! I'll have a word and ask SGE to send you a pdf 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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