Cheap and doesn’t get accidentally deleted if your computer goes downĬan either get a cheap book, or go with a posterboard/A4 pages stuck together and just fold it up when you need to. I’ve been known to plot out the major threads in some of my games using pen and paper. They have versions of Scrivener for Windows and Mac and it’s quite affordable at only $18USD!!!Īnd I swear I’m not a shill for Literature & Latte, but they also have another program called Scapple which is a super useful tool for interactive fiction, as it’s essentially an digital brainstorm device that, while you can use it as intended, you can just as easily use it as a visual reference for your game, choices, and branches! And it is available for the same price as Scrivener, $18USD. It also has a corkboard of sorts that lets you add PDF files of things you find interesting/necessary to keep close (say, a poem that inspired something in the work, the biography of a person who inspired a character, etc) as well as images, kind of like a Pinterest inspo board, but more words. This means you can create tags, keywords for easier searching, and cross-references between documents so you can retain context of information. Then it takes all this one step further by letting you personalize the metadata of your project.
In writer’s terms, this is like have loose leaf versions of all your information that you can freely move around the folders of a binder. Anyone who’s reading this who’s ever used Photoshop or any other kind of image editing software will understand what it means as it’s essentially giving you a basically identical method of grouping layers, but with text files, and you can switch between these text files as easily as any layer, no need to wait for Microsoft Office to open up again. You have what is essentially a project master file that you can see at all times on the sidebar, in which you can add text files and organize them in folders as you see fit. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Welcome I use Scrivener for pretty much everything. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey.
It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. For any older version of Scrivener - including any Windows version - download the legacy file instead! Note: The template file should work for every Scrivener 3 release on MacOS and the current Scrivener 3 Beta on Windows. If you have any critique or wishes for alteration or features, please contact me using the Dungeon Masters Guild Website or via E-Mail. The template is designed to be used as an electronic tool while preparing or playing a game session but more options in regards to creating custom content, exporting and compiling are going to be added in the future. Most of the currently available SRD rules are included or on their way to be released in the template. It is designed to help organize and design game worlds as well as offering a good experience while playing D&D 5th Edition. This project includes a Scrivener template file for MacOS and Windows, as well as a free fitting font - Tex Gyre Bonum.