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Mike Shea

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The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And in Obsidian, in the e-book package, which we're calling the digital package, the City of Arches digital package, the digital package will include the PDF of the book, a no-background version of the PDF of the book, an EPUB version of the book, and a Markdown version of the book.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And the Markdown version is a single directory that has files for every one of the chapters and a couple of the subchapters. And all of them are viewable in Obsidian. You can drop the whole directory. I just did it. You can drop the whole thing into your Obsidian directory and get the entire book in Markdown in Obsidian. So now you've got a text-based version of it. You can modify it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And the Markdown version is a single directory that has files for every one of the chapters and a couple of the subchapters. And all of them are viewable in Obsidian. You can drop the whole directory. I just did it. You can drop the whole thing into your Obsidian directory and get the entire book in Markdown in Obsidian. So now you've got a text-based version of it. You can modify it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And the Markdown version is a single directory that has files for every one of the chapters and a couple of the subchapters. And all of them are viewable in Obsidian. You can drop the whole directory. I just did it. You can drop the whole thing into your Obsidian directory and get the entire book in Markdown in Obsidian. So now you've got a text-based version of it. You can modify it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

You can add your little rollers if you want to add rollers for the locations. This version does not have any of the art in it. The only art that exists in the Markdown version are the maps themselves. So if you go to certain ones, you will see that it has a map linked into it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

You can add your little rollers if you want to add rollers for the locations. This version does not have any of the art in it. The only art that exists in the Markdown version are the maps themselves. So if you go to certain ones, you will see that it has a map linked into it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

You can add your little rollers if you want to add rollers for the locations. This version does not have any of the art in it. The only art that exists in the Markdown version are the maps themselves. So if you go to certain ones, you will see that it has a map linked into it.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But it was going to be too much to try to get all of the images to work in Markdown when you have relative locations and stuff like that. So instead, I only put the ones that you absolutely have to have, like the maps. But here are the adventures, right? Chapter 11, the adventures. Obsidian Skull, Adventure Start. It's got the little map in there. It's got all the other stuff in there.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But it was going to be too much to try to get all of the images to work in Markdown when you have relative locations and stuff like that. So instead, I only put the ones that you absolutely have to have, like the maps. But here are the adventures, right? Chapter 11, the adventures. Obsidian Skull, Adventure Start. It's got the little map in there. It's got all the other stuff in there.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

But it was going to be too much to try to get all of the images to work in Markdown when you have relative locations and stuff like that. So instead, I only put the ones that you absolutely have to have, like the maps. But here are the adventures, right? Chapter 11, the adventures. Obsidian Skull, Adventure Start. It's got the little map in there. It's got all the other stuff in there.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And it's all in one little zippable directory that you can drop right into Obsidian. So I'm very excited. This is the first time I've released an entire book in Obsidian. And we're in Markdown and I plan to do so in the future. I think it's really great. I don't think I'm necessarily going to go back and do the other ones in Markdown.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And it's all in one little zippable directory that you can drop right into Obsidian. So I'm very excited. This is the first time I've released an entire book in Obsidian. And we're in Markdown and I plan to do so in the future. I think it's really great. I don't think I'm necessarily going to go back and do the other ones in Markdown.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

And it's all in one little zippable directory that you can drop right into Obsidian. So I'm very excited. This is the first time I've released an entire book in Obsidian. And we're in Markdown and I plan to do so in the future. I think it's really great. I don't think I'm necessarily going to go back and do the other ones in Markdown.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

A lot of the material that we released under our open license is available in Markdown. So you can get good chunks of return and the workbook and the companion and forge of foes. You can get that stuff in Markdown too. I don't think I plan anytime soon to convert things like Ruins of the Grindelroot. They are there. It's actually not terribly hard to do.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

A lot of the material that we released under our open license is available in Markdown. So you can get good chunks of return and the workbook and the companion and forge of foes. You can get that stuff in Markdown too. I don't think I plan anytime soon to convert things like Ruins of the Grindelroot. They are there. It's actually not terribly hard to do.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

A lot of the material that we released under our open license is available in Markdown. So you can get good chunks of return and the workbook and the companion and forge of foes. You can get that stuff in Markdown too. I don't think I plan anytime soon to convert things like Ruins of the Grindelroot. They are there. It's actually not terribly hard to do.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you are crafty, you can take the EPUB versions of those books and convert those to Markdown because and you can do it with like a single tool. So it's not terribly hard to do. It's harder for me to kind of clean it all up and distribute it, though, than it would be for you to just be able to take it from the EPUB version. So yes, are there player maps for the VTTs? There are, yes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you are crafty, you can take the EPUB versions of those books and convert those to Markdown because and you can do it with like a single tool. So it's not terribly hard to do. It's harder for me to kind of clean it all up and distribute it, though, than it would be for you to just be able to take it from the EPUB version. So yes, are there player maps for the VTTs? There are, yes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

If you are crafty, you can take the EPUB versions of those books and convert those to Markdown because and you can do it with like a single tool. So it's not terribly hard to do. It's harder for me to kind of clean it all up and distribute it, though, than it would be for you to just be able to take it from the EPUB version. So yes, are there player maps for the VTTs? There are, yes.

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish
Challenge Rating Deep Dive – Lazy RPG Talk Show

So one of the things we have is there is a total, there is a map pack included in the digital pack. Let's see, I'll go to my digital package here, and I will show an example of the maps. And they have player versions of the maps. Not all of them are gridless, because sometimes the grid is kind of worked into the artwork, but we split it all out. We had done a bunch of work on this.