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Add a resources section to the SRD and link to the vaarn character generator.
https://perchance.org/vaarnpcgen

There was a discussion about the licensing discrepancies between the zines, and the SRD, and which Creative Commons license everything falls under. This was asked by the discord user JeremyZ in the #game-jam channel during the Vaults of Vaarn summer jam.

This issue is to discuss the conversion of the SRD from CC-BY-SA-4.0 to CC-BY-4.0.

Add a language selector to the SRD for translations.

Cross-link the Random Encounter, and Lair tables from regions/interior.md to the appropriate bestiary entries.

The roll tables were copied from the zines, and the zines were formatted for A5 pages. Thus some tables were split to accommodate this format. As long as merging these tables does not cause left-right scrolling, merge the tables into a single table.

Tables affected by this:

• Ancestries
• Gear

Add the link to issue 2 for Lulu print on demand.

Update the vov.css stylesheet to override the green color of the text from the default Docsify theme.

@GraculusDroog do you have any preference on the hyperlink highlighting color? I was thinking the blue-gray (#92BEC7) from the background of VoV #1's itch page.

Vov 1-3 and the DE are out of print and largely unavailable. The two exceptions for the zines availability are Leo's store Antipode, and Lulu for print on demand. Since maintaining these links for future releases of the zine will result in whack-a-mole with 3rd party eCommerce platforms, I am opting to remove the 3rd party links entirely while maintaining links to Leo's store and Lulu.

This affects README.md and translations (vaarn-ko).

Right now the tables are variable width, and so there are various size tables that disrupt the page flow. Convert the tables to constant width using CSS.

960px or percentage based on browser size, I don't know, I need to research current trends.

Fix the tables for VoV 3 ancestry tables. These were combined into a single table, but causes left-to-right scrolling to see the full table with 1080p displays.

Now that the zine mostly sold out, and the Deluxe Edition has been out for a year and a half (oops), we should provide links to purchase the book on the landing page.

In the print and pdf versions of the zines, words such as "phamphlet" and "zine" are used, update these to use "srd" where appropriate. This might be on a case-by-case basis, as we are trying to preserve the original content as closely as possible.

In referee-rules.md there is a footnote under the Rations section. I am not sure how best to use this for web, so I am leaving this bug here to remind me. Perhaps Leo can guide how this information is relayed.

This report compiles a list of references in the SRD to it being a zine. This language was carried over directly to the SRD from the zines when it was converted to web.

• acknowledgements.md
  • 'add to the contents of this zine' on line 2.
  • 'downloaded the previous issues of this zine' also line 2.
• the-interior.md
  • 'use the tables provided in this zine' on line 6.
  • 'the hex-chart on the opposite page' on line 122
• content-generators.md
  • 'Use the generators on the following pages' on line 2.
• regions/gnomon.md
  • 'Such techniques are detailed further in the following faction pages.' on line 29.

Leo added this line to resources.md but this URL will be short lived and will need to be updated once the feature branch has been merged back into main. The new URL should be pointed at the stable release, instead of a feature branch URL.

Vaarn Character and Region Generators

The CSS needs to be updated so Anonymous Pro will be used in the tables.

This is a place holder and is currently the last item in this project that should be considered.

I would like to evaluate if it makes sense to reorganize the content of the SRD. I am thinking about how future zine content will be integrated into the existing SRD, if @GraculusDroog continues to publish the content under a creative commons license. I also want to consider the differences between the _sidebar.md and the Table of Contents in the Deluxe Edition.

The tables that are under the Content Generators header come from VoV #1. Some of these tables were revised and added to the Creating Regions section of VoV #3. The duplicate tables under Content Generators need to be removed.

The SRD was originally a direct conversion from print to web. This created a few issues such as the web still referring to itself as a zine (#26), but also a haphazard merging of the introductory "welcome to vaarn" text.

With the removal of links to 3rd party stores (#27) the resulting landing page will become sparse, also I feel like the contents of README.md and what-is-vaarn.md could be merged into a single document that is served up as the landing page when folks visit the SRD. This will be similar to the editing that was done in the DE.

The formatting for acknowledgements.md was retained from the space constrained section of the last page of VoV3. This formatting makes the content a little hard to parse on web, and creates a very long single line in git. I have also proposed that this page could be used to list SRD contributors (#29), so updating the formatting would help the flow of the page for if/when this content is added.

Add the images for issue 1 to the SRD.

I would like to add a section to list contributors to the SRD. It does not matter if those contributions are large, such as a complete language translation, or minor such as a fix to formatting, contributors should be recognized for their contributions.

Adding this content to the acknowledgements.md document could be the right place for it, but maybe a dedicated contributors.md is better? I don't know right now and want to discuss.

When the location is identified, the footer section ' user contributions' needs to be updated to link to the anchor or document listing the contributors.

The HTML needs to be linted for missing table markup.

I noticed the following line was removed in the change linked below. It is a line I was wondering if belongs with the chargen steps.

"Gifts fill up psyche slots. Your maximum psyche slots cannot exceed your Psyche bonus."

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I myself got stuck on how to write gifts on the character sheet, until coming across this text later.

@GraculusDroog this one is for you.

Add search capabilities to the SRD

I want to encourage translations for the Vaarn SRD, but I also want to create a process that can be followed so the translation repositories end up correctly formatted for inclusion in the language selector.

There is a Spanish translation provided by Inguaz and Dark Soups on the VoV Discord that I will use to define this process as I convert the google doc to web.

I have a rough document started by google gemini that defines this process very generically, I will use this as a starting point but it needs significant modification. Thanks evil AI overlords for the first draft!

Add a resources section that links to external content. For example, links to the 'Vaarn Region Generator' blog post, or 'relics of vaarn' itch.io page.