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Hello, I'm not an official indie RPG publisher (yet). Somewhat working on it, though. I've had a bunch of flop ideas prior to this that I ended up scrapping, but right now I'm working on two things which are pretty far along. The current "main" project I have is Trespasser. The elevator pitch is "what if STALKER, but in 1990, and the disaster in question is the Exxon-Valdez spill". Right now it's on hold because I have 90% of a draft but I'm deeply second-guessing things about it mechanically (especially if it even needs the existing, involved combat system...I'm leaning towards "scrap it" right now). I think it's tradition for me to cheat on any given project with the next idea that pops into my head, which is why I'm currently working on a 13th age-based heartbreaker with the lovely working title 20th Path. I've switched from 1d20 to 3d6, I'm using a more 5e-ish Advantage/Disadvantage system, there are no traditional ability scores, Backgrounds/Rituals work differently, and I've overhauled basically every class thus far. That one's quite well along, the main things I'd need to add (prior to balancing, obviously) are magic items, a bestiary (which will largely be SRD-based), and I'd like to add in 2-6 classes (2 I know I want in for sure, the other 4 are less of a priority). Right now I'm doing some extremely basic layout stuff for the latter in Affinity Publisher (I like it though it's definitely got a few warts, happy to go into more detail if anyone's interested) between designing content. Is there a better way to find free, open-source fonts than Google Fonts? I've found a few through it that I like but most of them don't seem to have bold/italic variants, which I'd greatly prefer. Some opinions on section layout would also be appreciated. I assume the standard D&D setup (Intro -> Rolling -> Attributes -> Race -> Class -> etc) has been kept around out of inertia rather than some kind of logical layout reason but I can't in good conscience back that assertion up, nor can I think of what a better one would be.
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Jan 4, 2020 22:31
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slap me and kiss me posted:Not free, but grab a 1/mo subscription to an adobe product that gives access to adobe fonts when you're finished layout. I think the license is such that as long as you incorporate the font into a product during your subscription, permission to use is indefinite. Good tip, thanks!
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Jan 4, 2020 22:43
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Yeah, at some point I'll throw crap on itch at the very least once I get something worth throwing. dafont/1001fonts are good refs too, so thanks for that. The biggest issues I've had with Affinity Publisher so far (as someone who also came from MS Word) are:
I can't think of much else offhand though. In general it's pretty solid and I don't think I'd go back to Word.
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