Making your own OD&D supplement booklet

[scottanderson]

I'm really not sure where to ask this.  I need your help.

Many many folks have produced supplements of various kinds for OD&D.  The physical look of some of them is authentic: 6" x 9", beige cover, the olden font and so forth.  I would like to put an authentic cover on one of my books.  One that looks like the LBBs.  Instead of making it imperfectly from scratch, is there a template somewhere, or can someone who made one help me figure out how to do it?

[Admin Pete]

Great question Scott, I would be interested in that myself. I think a number of different people have done it and perhaps one of them would be willing to assist someone.

[makofan]

You might want to try this product - it is free

www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144651/Exemplars--Eidolons

From the description:
Exemplars & Eidolons is a fully-playable OSR mini-game of high-powered legendary adventurers. But what I really wrote it to be is a simple layout template for other people who'd like to echo the old "Little Brown Books" style of old-school game pamphlets. As the principles of page design are a lot easier to explain with actual game text, I wrote the game so I could have something to lay out for you.

In this download, you'll get the game itself in two versions- one with no Commentary layer for the convenience of people using certain tablet readers, and one with a layer you can turn on via Adobe Reader to see the page design tricks and principles I used to put the pamphlet together. I've also included InDesign source files for the game, and an .IDML InDesign markup language file that should be readable by Scribus. You are encouraged to loot the styles and page objects for your own creations, whether free or commercial.