diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/000-header.tex b/basic-roleplaying/000-header.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59aeec9 --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/000-header.tex @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +\documentclass{book} +\usepackage[paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in,margin=0.5in,heightrounded,showframe]{geometry} + +\title{My Basic Roleplaying Resources} +\author{Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku} +\date{2024 March 10 to \today} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\frontmatter + +%\chapter{Dedication} +\include{dedication} +%\chapter{Copyleft} +\include{copyleft} +%\chapter{Acknowledgements} +\include{acknowledgements} +%\chapter{About Basic Roleplaying} +\include{aboutbrp} + +\tableofcontents + +\listoffigures +\listoftables \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/aboutbrp.tex b/basic-roleplaying/aboutbrp.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f33fe8b --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/aboutbrp.tex @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +\chapter{About Basic Roleplaying} + +This system was created in 1980, out of {\it RuneQuest}, and has been +changed over the years from that initial 16 page booklet, to now as of +2023, a about 250 page book. + +Initially it covered the basics of one game system, but has included +additions from other systems which Chaosium has been involved with. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/acknowledgements.tex b/basic-roleplaying/acknowledgements.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..752284d --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/acknowledgements.tex @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +\chapter{Acknowledgements} + +A number of people should be acknowledged, first off the creators of +the {Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine}, Jason Durall and Steve +Perrin. + +I would like to thank Wizards of the Coast, for showing clearly that +{\it Dungeons \& Dragons}, is perhaps not the system I would like to +play in, before I had made any commitment to it. + +I would like to thank all the people who play, and create independent +games. + +One specific person I would like to thank is Avery Alder who created, +{The Quiet Year}, which was the first game I ever ran with other +people. + +I also would like to thank all of those who have played games with +me, even just at the setting up stages. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.pdf b/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de96dad Binary files /dev/null and b/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.pdf differ diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.tex b/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.tex index 7c9e205..59147f6 100644 --- a/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.tex +++ b/basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.tex @@ -1,30 +1,10 @@ -\documentclass{book} -\usepackage[paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in,margin=0.5in,heightrounded,showframe]{geometry} - -\title{My Basic Roleplaying Resources} -\author{Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku} -\date{2024 March 10 to \today} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -\frontmatter - -\chapter{Dedication} -\chapter{Copyleft} -\chapter{Acknowledgements} -\chapter{About Basic Roleplaying} - -\tableofcontents - -\listoffigures -\listoftables +\input{000-header} \mainmatter \part{Basic Roleplaying Background} -\chapter{How we found it} +%\chapter{How we found it} +\include{discovery} \chapter{What it is} \chapter{What we started wanting from it} \chapter{Where we're currently going with it} diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/copyleft.tex b/basic-roleplaying/copyleft.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e1c02a --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/copyleft.tex @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +\chapter{Copyleft} + +Well, copyleft is probably not quite the right thing for this, but we'll +call it that for now. + +This document is created by Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku, for personal use, with +some intention that it be something to be distributable. + +We license this with CC-BY-SA, meaning you can distribute this freely. + +If you distribute it, you would include the "By" portion as to who this +which may change from what is currently here (there will be a section for +that). + +If you wish to modify that, you can do so, sharing with the same license. + +This isn't {\it currently}, correctly listed, but it has the basic +information as it stands. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/dedication.tex b/basic-roleplaying/dedication.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf0a2fe --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/dedication.tex @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +\chapter{Dedication} + +This is dedicated to all those who have gone before me, and all those who +remain after I am no longer here. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/basic-roleplaying/discovery.tex b/basic-roleplaying/discovery.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d41edc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/basic-roleplaying/discovery.tex @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +\chapter{How we Found Basic Roleplaying} + +At the time that there was the Open Gaming License (OGL) issues with the +{\it Dungeons \& Dragons}, system reference document (SRD), where it +looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC), were changing things to make +the license anything but open, I decided I wanted to see if I could +make a {\it Humans \& Hovels}, or whatever we were going to end up +calling it in the end. + +I spent some time in World Anvil setting some stuff up, but ended +up pretty much giving up on that specific thing, but part of my trying +to create that, resulted in my looking and finding the {\it Basic +Roleplaying} SRD, which was what we were going to try to see what +we could do with that. + +After having looked at it, and really deciding that it was something +that would be interesting to work with, along with some other games +that fall more or less within the system, we ended up getting an updated +version. + +At the time of writing this, we checked out Chaosium's itch.io offerings +as we'd spotted a new {\it Call of Cthulhu}, free handouts pack, and +spotted the (which we'd seen before) {\it Basic Roleplaying}, free +character sheets pack. + +This basically brings us to wanting to use that free character sheets +pack to offer people who may want to play with us, the ability to create +characters. \ No newline at end of file