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

[Charles Carroll]

I vaguely remember Ogre....that was a kind of tank? Thing?


On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:38 AM Don Lavanty <emeketos at gmail.com> wrote:

> lol all the talking about WH23 is making me want to play OGRE or carwars
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:35 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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