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

[Don Lavanty]

Back to topic for epic face palm
The main place you can NOT get electronic version's of the paper documents
is the ADB website.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:41 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe we should take this to discord hehe. Instead of cluttering up this
> thread
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM Charles Carroll <mastrvran at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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