Danger Jaunt to Wonder Vault is a fantasy roleplaying game "retro-clone" --- a set of rules based on early versions of the original pen and paper roleplaying game, as allowed by the Open Gaming License.
What sets Danger Jaunt to Wonder Vault apart from similar games?
- short page count, suitable for saddle-stitched booklets
- compact page size, available as both US digest (5.5 x 8.5) and A5
- concise writing style
- despite brevity, all key game elements included
- written in Markdown (easy to edit)
- easily output as PDF or HTML (by Pandoc)
The dangerjaunt.md
Markdown text file is readable in any text editor or web browser.
To build the book as a PDF and HTML document requires:
- a POSIX shell (e.g. /bin/sh)
- Perl 5
- Pandoc
- a version of LaTeX with pdfTeX
The PDF uses the following LaTeX font packages:
- The New PX Palladio clone (newpxtext, newpxmath)
- Antykwa Toruńska (antt)
- Make your changes to
dangerjaunt.md
. - Generate the PDF's and HTML by running
./makebook.sh
.
The text of Danger Jaunt to Wonder Vault is licensed under the terms of the Open Gaming License.
The auxiliary and build scripts are licensed under the Simplified BSD License:
Copyright (c) 2015, Paul Gorman All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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