Monday, November 18, 2019

Pointless things

M & M

My ePub version of the M&M SRD now has chapters 1-5 and chapter 8.

I had intended it for the players who do not have rulebooks from Green Ronin for the Doctor Why campaign, but that has gone much faster than the conversion to ePub. (I'm using the HTML from D20 Hero SRD as the basis, but it has lots and lots of stuff that my ebook generator—Sigil—does not like or obey. So I'm slowly converting it over.

It has been interesting seeing what works on, say, a smartphone (intended target) and what doesn't. I've had to disassemble several tables and convert them to <dl> lists, because the ebook stuff tries to represent it as a big table that flows off the screen.

If I were smart, I'd have done ICONS first. (Actually, if I were really smart, I wouldn't be doing this at all.)

Also, for file size reasons and searchability, I've broken several of the larger chapters (notably the list of archetypes and the power effects and modifiers) into their own sections. So archetypes got shoved to the end of the book, and powers now runs like three chapters: Powers, effect descriptions, modifiers.

Not that the power effect descriptions are done, but it's been a chance to flex my very rusty sed muscles

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