TrollsZine! Style and Submission guide

[alkazar]

TrollsZine! Submission and Style guide. New improved version 1.8! Name changed to submissions and style guide cause it is. As always If you spot a typo or anything screwy let me know so I can fix them asap.

TrollsZine Fonts  You'll need these for so the example sheets will look correct.

I've decided to do away with the DOCX and DOC templates as I'm a linux user and cannot use word, I thought that LibreOffice's word compatibility could suffice a decent template since it just needed to set page measurements only but alas it couldn't even do that. If some kind person with a modern copy of word wanted to create some templates using the specs given in the submissions and style guide I would be happy to post them. Until then, the open document format is the bird. I'm also using 7zip for the larger files now.

TrollsZine Templates in ODT format.7z (30.13 KB)

example sheets raw.7z (338.76 KB)

premade table.odt (11.71 KB)

[alkazar]

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[mahrundl]

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[mosker]

Fantastic work alkazar. Inspiring (what I planned as extensive posts and/or just stuff to put on my itch page, I now want to turn into articles)

Any thoughts (anyone?) on more game specific things such as formatting spell names, attribute names (I.Q. or IQ or INT), stat blocks, character and monster presentations, solo paragraphs? Especially for adventures, if anyone has a template (will not tag) that could be tweaked to be TZ compatible.

[houndle]

Apologies for possible dumb question, if I have missed the answer in documentation please feel free to castigate me.

I'm struggling to re-create the effect I saw in TZ14 where single column and double column are mixed on the same page. Looking at the templates kindly provided it appears that the columnar format is built into the page style which does weird things when you introduce a section break.

I could do it by ditching the template, but I'd then have to drive myself crazy re-doing the formatting (and probably messing it up).

Is there something easy/obvious I have overlooked?

Thanks,

John

[alkazar]

I don't fool with page styles beyond the default, they are an annoying mess that don't work half the time or they screw something up on another page the rest of the time.

If you have a copy of LibreOffice I'd be glad to let you have the original .odt of any article you want to see so you can discover how I lie, cheat and steal my way through a page design.

I think I know the effect you're talking about though. I used frames to pull off that little trick. In LibreOffice you can add a frame anywhere on a page and the frame can act as it's own page within a page, with single, double or triple columns. Then I just move the frame around and stretch or shrink it as I need, then drop in my text. Now a days, I find that I use frames in place of text boxes and I even build my tables inside frames so I can move them around easily within a page without the table splitting across columns.

[houndle]

Makes sense, thanks. I'll look at doing it with frames.
After 25 years of using MS Word I'm still getting my head around the way that Libre Office is mostly the same, until it isn't.

[alkazar]

TZ subs & style updated!
ODT templates updated as well

Dropped DOC and DOCX templates cause they sucked!