Profoundly Nerdy

Are there any LaTeX templates for Traveller RPG characters, ships and the like? It would be cool to be able to generate everything from plain text or lightweight markup and have a nicely formatted PDF.

#latex #pandoc #toml #traveller #rpg #ttrpg

May 27 at 2:53pmWeb
Show threadS. Lott6d ago

@profoundlynerdy I have thoughts on that.

I use sphinx to generate HTML and PDF from a single source.

Blank character sheets for players are hard. But. NPCs as part of a campaign an easy and fun.

I have tools. In Python. For the Hero system and OpenD6. They’d require a lot of work for Traveler.

https://slott56.github.io/2026-02-18_opend6_ttrpg_dsl_spell_definition.html

Characters, Creatures, and Items are similar. But. No blog post.

OpenD6 TTRPG DSL -- Spell Definitions

The OpenD6 Table-Top Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) has a complicated bit of accounting around the definition for magical spells and invocations. For me, the accounting suggested a need for software tools. This -- in turn -- forced me to invent a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) to work with OpenD6 spells. I like the OpenD6 …

S.Lott -- Software Architect