Begining to come together

This is the Basic Roleplaying document starting to come together, with
some sense of what the whole document will look like.

basic-roleplaying/000-header.tex

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+\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

basic-roleplaying/aboutbrp.tex

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+\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.  

basic-roleplaying/acknowledgements.tex

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+\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.  

basic-roleplaying/basic-roleplaying.tex

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-\documentclass{book}
+\input{000-header}
-\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
 
 \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}

basic-roleplaying/copyleft.tex

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+\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. 

basic-roleplaying/dedication.tex

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+\chapter{Dedication}
+
+This is dedicated to all those who have gone before me, and all those who
+remain after I am no longer here.  

basic-roleplaying/discovery.tex

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+\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.