Degenesis English Text Release

[kylesgames]

[kylesgames]

I found a smarter way to do it: I simply got the Adobe Acrobat trial and the version of the document with layers, and removed all the layers with content that's under anything but the CC license. Typesetting isn't protected in Australian, US, or EU copyright law (at least according to anything I've seen or heard, and I've got a huge copyright law casebook around here somewhere), and in any case the CC declaration says that the "text" of the work is under CC, so I'm assuming it's fair to redistribute under the CC-BY-NC-SA clause now.

So, without further ado, the English Degenesis PDF with all the non-CC elements removed:

http://files.homoeoteleuton.com/Degenes ... elease.pdf

I wasn't able to salvage the character sheet (it's an image in the PDF), but it should be available. There's no "freely distributable for personal use" disclaimer on it, though, so I'm not going to redistribute it. There's also a lot of blank pages, but I'll deal with that in the coming days.

EDIT: There are large portions of the text "missing" because they're white and now that the background images are gone there's nothing to show up against. I'll be going through to fix this.

EDIT 2: The errors are pretty pervasive, so it's down until I fix them.

[kylesgames]

And it is now back up, and you can get it from the link above.

My immediate goal is to fix the page numbers, both on the pages and in the TOC.

Followed by that, my end-goal is to move the Degenesis content into an online System Reference Document.

[Rob Lang]

Nice one matey, keep pushing and keep posting up your goals. Not only do I enjoy reading the small steps you're making but it also enthuses me to keep going too.

Keep it up!

[kylesgames]

Updated version is up with page numbers corrected at the bottom of the page to match what the new PDF page numbers are after the removal of whitespace.

Some text was still white, and I fixed that now. The two things that remain are to fix up the TOS and get it into a format that I can work with once I no longer have Adobe Acrobat. I did a test .docx export, which was of mixed value; it would work as a reference for my .odt reformatting efforts, but it wouldn't be terribly easy to read through, so it doesn't offer anything that the new PDF doesn't.

[kylesgames]

New updated version includes:

Added Title Page, Credits, and Table of Contents bookmarks.

New version up.

Removed "The Jackal's Prophecy", which was removed entirely, from the Table of Contents. I filled the white space this left with a "Table of Contents" label.

Bookmarks and TOC entries had capitalization fixed ("melee Weapons", really?) and some other various fixes. All-in-all, I think almost everything in the Bookmarks and TOC should now fall into a single coherent stylization scheme.

Bookmarks added for Chapter 10.

"AMSUMOT" in TOC changed to "AMSUMO", which seems to match the stylization of both the chapter heading and the text.

Added "The Fall of Ferropol" bookmark to match TOC. Made it function like earlier books by nesting FoF bookmarks under it.

Added "Adventure 1: The Hall of Deceit" bookmark. Made it function like earlier books by nesting HoD bookmarks under it.

TOC pages are fixed up.

[kylesgames]

No content yet, but I've set up a future building block for the Degenesis SRD.

Oh, and I should link to it:



It includes:

A general wiki interface for adding in content.
A blog system with multi-user blogging.
Forums.

The idea is that it will hold the Catharsys rules pretty faithfully with room for simplified overviews of Degenesis' setting, and be further extensible into a way to discuss the game/system, host games, and have third-party content.

EDIT: Just did some more PDF improvements, mostly on bookmarks but a couple to the TOC and body text.

[kylesgames]

Gah, I got mega spammer'ed. For now registration will require the password "DegenesisSRD".