D&D 5e LaTeX Template

This is an attempt at a D&D 5e LaTeX template. The color scheme is close to the original source books, as are the fonts. The fonts chosen are included by default in TeX Live and custom fonts are included for use with XeLaTex.

The template compiles with XeLaTeX or pdflatex, but XeLaTeX must be used to use u/Solbera's custom fonts.

Installation

Just clone the repo. From terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/evanbergeron/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template.git 5e-template
$ cd 5e-template
$ pdflatex example.tex

If you want to use the included custom fonts, use the xelatex command instead:

$ xelatex example.tex

If you don't have LaTeX installed, the following should help you out:

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Arch

sudo pacman -S texlive-bin texlive-core texlive-latexextra

It's a bit unclear exactly what subset of features this module needs. As a general rule, we'd recommend installing one of larger ones.

Package Options

• bg-letter: Loads a letter-sized background-image
• bg-a4: Loads an A4-sized background-image
• bg-print: Loads a printer-friendly background-image (only decal at the bottom)
• bg-full: Loads the full background-image

Per default "bg-letter" and "bg-full" are loaded.

Todo's

• Consider implementing more complex tables for monsters, etc.
• Clean up the table-preset
• Create more elegant solution for spacing before and after boxes (using \vspace is rather rigid when two boxes follow in a row)
• Add subtitle option for boxes
• Sort out box-decals when boxes break column or page
• Look into adding the ability to add large images to the document. There are some documents made with InDesign out there that accomplish this quite well.

Credits

• Credit for the background image goes to http://lostandtaken.com/
• Credit for the custom fonts goes to u/Solbera on Reddit, and those fonts are licensed under the Creative Commons license

Version

0.5

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Evan Bergeron

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