d6 Space Rulebook (RTF Format)

[Whill]

I was thinking that once I finish Space, I'd move on to Space Ships since the two books kind of go together, but I'm open to other suggestions.

D6 Space Aliens.

I know it was already on your list, but it also goes together with D6 Space. I think the Aliens book is more likely to be used by players for character race options, and GMs for planning campaigns (at least as inspiration for their own species). The Ships book is pretty cool too, but Aliens would be better first, IMO.

But either way, your efforts are appreciated. I'm looking forward to both RTF documents regardless. Thanks again, Evil.

[Prime Evil]

D6 Space Aliens.

I know it was already on your list, but it also goes together with D6 Space. I think the Aliens book is more likely to be used by players for character race options, and GMs for planning campaigns (at least as inspiration for their own species). The Ships book is pretty cool too, but Aliens would be better first, IMO.

As an experiment, I've converted a single alien species from D6 Space Aliens to RTF format.

Take a look at the result here and let me know what you think:

http://rapidshare.com/files/34798417...ax_Preview.rtf

I was concerned that converting this scanned PDF to RTF format might be difficult, but it isn't as hard as I thought it would be

The test sample is a bit rough around the edges in places, but it should give you an idea of what is possible.

[wraith]

OK...I've been been converting the D6 Space rulebook into RTF format in order to make it available to any folks who want to customize it with their own house rules.

I've tried to eliminate the use of formatting incompatible with Rich Text Format, even though this means that embedded styles are lost and it is difficult to format tables with tab spacing. I've previewed the document in WordPad and it looks OK. The only fonts that are used in the document are Century Gothic and Times New Roman to maximize cross-platform compatibility.

I've posted a preview of the RTF edition consisting of the first nine chapters on Rapidshare for folks to look at and let me know what they reckon - hopefully I'll finish cleaning up the rest of the book in the next few days:

http://rapidshare.com/files/34365300...ce_Preview.rtf

Once I've got the rulebook in RTF format, it should be trivial to make it available in a range of other formats. Would any of the following formats be useful to people:

• ePub and Mobibook for viewing on mobile e-book devices such as the Kindle
• MS Word format with embedded styles to make reformatting the document easy
• Open Document (ODT) format with embedded styles to make reformatting easy.
• Print-friendly PDF format with no artwork but a full set of bookmarks
• HTML / XHTML

Great job! Thanks!

[Whill]

Looks good.

[Prime Evil]

Great job! Thanks!

No problem. Hopefully, my conversion should make the task of loading this rulebook onto the Open D6 Resurrection Wiki a lot easier.

[Prime Evil]

I apologize for the delay, but real life has kept me busy for the past week or so.

Nonetheless, I've finally finished the conversion of d6 Space to rich text format and the resulting file is available here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/354649749/Open_D6_Space.rtf

Please feel free to host this file elsewhere if you have the capability to do so. This document is intended as a resource for people who want to tinker with the system in order to customize it to their needs.

This is the final version of the D6 Space rulebook - I might make a few minor edits to fix errors or incorporate the official eratta (assuming that I get permission to do so), but I don't plan on any major changes.

If you notice any problems with the file, please report them here so that they can be fixed.

I've started work on an RTF Conversion of Space Aliens and hope to post a preliminary draft soon - probably in a week or so.

[Infinite Possibilities]

The file can also now be found at http://unifieduniverse.com/

Darren