Dramatic SFB: how do you get electronic versions of the rule books?

[Charles Carroll]

I am sure it does lol. Just was saying that what I use.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:33 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just been on drivethruRPG so long for other game systems mostly
> RPG's. It has support for more systems, publishers & 3rd party publishers.
> its a nice place to have all your downloads (for me) in one place vs guess
> which store do I have the digital files. Drivethrurpg also has a nice
> downloader program that keeps all your files up to date incase it changes.
> Obviously this isn't an issue with SFB for the most part. The downloader
> isn't perfect though it wants to keep all the files in one place vs
> organized via game system etc. WH23 is also very limited on the systems &
> publishers it has which of course isn't a problem if all you want is SFB.
> also there is wargaming vault which is part of DrivethruRPG as a sister
> site it mostly is for wargames and ADB is easy to find.
>
> https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/3528/Amarillo-Design-Bureau?filters=40110_0_0_0
>
> all the sites work fine for SFB
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:17 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just use WH23 myself. It has always worked flawlessly
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:16 AM Don Lavanty via SFBdrama <
>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> they can also be found on drivethruRPG and their other site. wargaming??
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:14 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just wish they would finish putting all the rule books in PDF form
>>>> its easier to have 7 PDF's open that are searchable than having 7 paper
>>>> books that are not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:05 PM Matthew via SFBdrama <
>>>> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > I'm guessing you have electronic sfb rule books as you copy and
>>>>> paste
>>>>> > the rules so quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>> I went the hard route: Scanned and OCRd my entire collection (SSDs and
>>>>> Rules). Then converted them to HTML format (with links). Was truck
>>>>> driving, so had plenty of time for tedious "Spend an hour here
>>>>> spellchecking and formatting", "Spend and hour there doing the same".
>>>>> Set up scripts to handle the gross-adjustments on the images and to
>>>>> convert bits of text into other bits of text.
>>>>>
>>>>> The result is that I have most of the rules modules in a 75M zip file,
>>>>> with all rules hyperlinked, searchable, and C&P-able. SSDs are about
>>>>> 325MB, in a printer-friendly format. All are downloadable and also
>>>>> readable from computers not-not-my-own. Protected from very-casual
>>>>> internet gurus, so I have DMCA cover. A very nice setup, if I say so
>>>>> myself.
>>>>>
>>>>> The downside is that I am not truck driving now. New material is added
>>>>> *very* slowly. Module C6 I got when it came out, has been integrated.
>>>>> Module C4 and G3 I have had for about 2 years and both are not fully
>>>>> integrated, but parts of both are.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Matt
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