Rather than spam the community over and over again, I just wanted to let people know that the Haunted and the Sorcerer playbooks are finished and available for download (http://nerdwerds.blogspot.com/2012/12/all-of-playbooks.html).
It’s actually incredibly easy for me to make trifolds now. I have a generic playbook file set up and all I have to do is copy-paste text into the boxes. Empty space is the hardest part because it needs to be filled with info boxes for gear and barter, and these usually need to be custom-made for the spaces that the text fills up. But the longest I’ve taken on a single playbook is three hours, total. When Tim Franzke and I worked on the Wrangler and Beast Master playbooks, making the portrait on the front page took the longest.
Because my job affords me a lot of free time, my next project is to go through the potential playbooks that are talked about in the forums and turn them into trifolds, I’ve already turned my MC’s playbook idea into a trifold (the Boy & His Dog) and in the meantime I’ve also been making custom character trifolds for my gaming group.
I’ve made all of these in a little over two weeks, which makes me really surprised that nobody else in the last two years has done anything like this.
now i see what you meant when you said “A lot of people use the Driver mechanic”
the only playbooks that have been turned into trifolds that use the mechanic are dragonraven’s Boy and his Dog, and Metzger’s the Horseman and the Sorcerer. But if you look at the playbook ideas that are floating around the Barf Forth forums, you see the mechanic crop up a lot. Or, at least, I notice it and inwardly groan when it shows up.
Great work, Patrick! 😀
Anxious to see “the Radio” in trifold 🙂
Grégoire Pinson I haven’t heard of that one. Can you share a link?
So will you do Expanded Playbooks too?
Of course Patrick Henry Downs .
Here’s the link: http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?topic=1480.15
it’s also really great to have someone step up and do this. It’s a huge boon for the community i think.
Tim Franzke I don’t really know how to do the artwork on those expanded playbooks, that’s why I haven’t tried to tackle one yet.
no big deal. I was thinking about doing more in that sector but i am also a bit out of ideas right now.
Grégoire Pinson I was going to include the caveat that if a playbook looks too derivative of something that already exists that I probably wouldn’t convert it into a trifold, but the Radio. Wow! This is really cool. Are you lin_fusan, or do you know who they are?
Tim Franzke I have an expansion playbook I wrote for the Chopper: the Ghost Rider. I haven’t shared it publicly yet because I’m waiting to go over it with my MC.
Sorry Patrick Henry Downs I’m not and I don’t know Him/her. Just fond of his/her (not finished) work on the radio. He/she could certainly be contacted via barf forth apocalyptica.
Patrick, what program do you use for this? I wouldn’t mind learning your tricks for some of my hacks.
I use Scribus. It’s buggy and many people complain about it, but it was free. I’ve figured out a few tricks with the program mainly through trial and error. It does weird things like reset your font to Arial, and if you have a text box activated so you can type in it but then switch to an image ox you can’t manipulate it at all because it will think you want to type in there and so it just stops doing anything for you until you click on a text box again. Maybe buggy is the wrong word. Picky. It’s a picky program.
I would mostly just want to take the playbooks and add in the pictures of the characters with their names added like you have here. Would that be tough to make happen? I will download Scribus and play around with it later today.
What I did is a little more complex, but I think that would be easy to do. You could either scan in a printed playbook or copy-paste the pdf into an image and then replace the playbook image with your own.
I’ve been thinking lately about doing more of the mini-supplement layouts, including the Rumormonger. (Don’t worry Topher Gerkey, I haven’t forgotten you, just got back from my second vacation in a month, and ready to get back to The Proxy.)
Also, Andrew Medeiros, get at me if you want me to take a crack at your Urban Shadows stuff. I wanted to, but I didn’t want to step on your toes.
hahah I would be happy to have any help with Urban Shadows. I have some workable sheets atm but I recognize they have a lot of room for improvement.
Matt Strickling 😀
Patrick Henry Downs, your idea of modifying the playbooks seems like the most convenient way to go about it. Thanks for the tip. I love learning to modify character sheets!
is there a zip file with all of those playbooks in it anywhere?
I tried to make a big PDF with all the Playbooks I think are good but when I merge them the text is not longer copyable
Patrick Henry Downs and Andrew Medeiros, if you need any help …. I can also help out. Here is what I am doing with permission from The Machine for ‘Hood.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Hhx1yXlz-OclNQcXZGdTVTZU0/edit?usp=sharing
Here is my personal website as well to see my portfolio: tommyrayburn.com
I work in InDesign and Illustrator, but here to help. If I am currently busy on projects during your request, I will let you know.
Hmmm, what program are you using to merge them?
Tommy Rayburn, those looks really good! I will def be calling on you for help 🙂
Andrew Medeiros No problem ….. I really enjoy both of your hacks quite a bit as a fan of both SW and WoD.
Thanks man. That why I made them, I wanted to play in those genres. 🙂
PDF merger or something. It’s mac freeware. Just throwing them together is totally easy but having them In alphabetical order requires a tiny bit of work
Hmmm, I have Nuance which i’ve used to compile pdfs into one file with no problem. I’d be willing to give it a try for you if you’d like.
Tim Franzke, the best way is using Foxitpdf or Acrobat Prof if you have and just dragging and dropping the PDF’s you have. Now, I get that some people don’t have those tools making it harder.
I use something called “Combine PDFs”
(back at computer now)
Ha, this is funny, because I really liked the Wrangler and Wolf, so that inspired me to update the Radio. And it has come full circle.
Monte Lin, could you send me your current notes for the Radio and I’ll start putting something together tonight?
Let me give it one more polish. I’d love feedback though. I still think it’s a little rough.
Patrick Henry Downs I uploaded the playbook to google docs. You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iihig3veVyWyxlCY8QAMTpnskVbT8o8r9zTXdMtYcZY/edit?usp=sharing