Thread by @squidlord

I find myself torn when thinking about how to work on a new game design project right now. I really enjoy my personal development done in @RoamResearch , with the full wiki treatment. But it's impossible to give people access to just that content if it's highly interconnected.

Eventually, I want to be able to put this content in a format which is consumable by a third party without needing network connectivity or much in the way of computing power.

#Stroll, which @giffmex has been working on, is another great option. While I don't particularly care for the structure that tiddlers impose, mechanically, I really love the story stream presentation, especially when it gets expanded to be more than two columns.

While it's nontrivial to export a single printable document from Stroll, I could at least export a standalone HTML file which someone could download and use locally whether it be desktop or mobile device, as long as they have a browser.

To a lesser degree unfortunately, the results wouldn't reasonably give something that would be a printable experience, and a lot of role-playing game/wargame enthusiasts are very conservative in that sense. They very much would prefer being able to have a book.

This is kind of annoyingly a big deal if you want to develop content for a publishing niche which already has a significant history. Do you go ahead and use something relatively exotic or do you stick with the same old tools which everyone will have access to?

A properly hyperlinked PDF is not something that is a reasonable ask if you want to do dense thicket hyperlinks of references. So if I want to go to a printable, distributable PDF, I have to make the decision up front, right now, so I don't waste time on the on implementable.

For the record, I would be doing that layout in Affinity Publisher, which does some amazing work – but it can only do so much. @affinitybyserif

I am inclined more toward #Stroll at this point because I can have the very dense linking, active transclusion (because only having to put tables into a book once and then having them transcluded from that index is so nice), and at least something I can put up on github and link.

Suggestions will be happily entertained, however. If you have some thoughts on this, let me know.

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It occurs to me that I may have a good use-case for @obsdmd , but I really, really wish the editing was as smooth and pleasant as in @Typora .

@AthensResearch looks like they want to do some of the kind of editing I want, but they're a long way from being properly usable.