InDesign for Newbs: Adding a special line after a heading
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InDesign for Newbs: Adding a special line after a heading

Bygamingballistic

Another quick use of GREP Find: (.*)\r Find Style: Topic (my header style) Change to: $0================> The key thing here is the $0, which is InDesign for “grab whatever you just found.” The equals signs and greater-than sign are actually what I get when I paste the graphic that Michael built in to my template….

InDesign is not for Newbs . . . but I’m improving
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InDesign is not for Newbs . . . but I’m improving

Bygamingballistic

Last few days or a week or so I’ve been laying out the Dragon Heresy Introductory Set. The manuscript is done, cut down from 410,000 words to about 149,500, and 55,000 of those are completely awesome monsters. But InDesign, basically the industry standard layout package, is a CAD program for words. It is ridiculously functional,…

Economizing on RPG Development Costs
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Economizing on RPG Development Costs

Bygamingballistic

Earlier I went through and took a stab at what it costs to develop an RPG book. One can consider these, in somewhat imprecise terms, economic costs, rather than an accounting or cash-flow cost, in that it’s not required to write checks for all of them. Further, the costs presented represent doing everything on a contracting basis, and…