I'm really into DIY-ing everything and have dabbled in a variety of software, art styles, and tools, aiming to always use free & open-source options whenever possible. Whatever I may lack in originality or inspiration, I figure I can at least write something useful by sharing what I've learned.
Projects
Tutorials
LaTeX
- Quick & Dirty Guide Messy but fairly comprehensive info-dump on my preferred packages
- Monster Macros Keep monster stats in a csv table and write LaTeX commands to automatically format statblocks.
- Printable Spellbook Zines LaTeX code to generate printable 6-page zines and auto-insert spell info from a csv file.
Typst
GIS
- Hexcrawl Tutorial Use real-world elevation data to make a fantasy hexmap & populate it randomly with dungeons.
- Biomes of Antibor Use QGIS and R to generate verisimilitudinous biome maps for far-future Antarctica.
- How Big Is Your Hexmap? Reference table providing the number of hexes of various sizes needed to tile real-world countries.