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LaTeX package to typeset material for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".

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LaTeX for tabletop | Sep 2023
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> Creating a theme for tabletop role-playing games would take some elbow grease

The article links to several, including a convincing reproduction of basic Wizards of the Coast house style for D&D 5E:

https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template

Here's another 5E one with additional sidebar styles:

https://github.com/anoderay/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template/

Also 5E-inspired, with a template for card accessories:

https://github.com/Krozark/RPG-LaTeX-Template

A 5E-compatible character sheet:

https://github.com/matsavage/DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Sheet-Te...

CTAN also has packages for Basic D&D-inspired typesetting (rpg-module, also linked from the article), GURPS (gurps), generic hex boards (hexboard), and wargame hex boards with counters (wargame).

There are also indie TTRPGs that've shipped using custom LaTeX templates; this one has CC-BY licensed source: https://github.com/ludus-leonis/nipajin

And the blog author's own, with a more restrictive CC-NC-SA license: https://github.com/Vladar4/itdr

From personal experience, the biggest struggle is non-rectangular text wrapping around images.
LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games | Sep 2023
Sadly very light on the subject matter of the title, mostly just a very brief LaTeX introduction page. The interesting content is the outlinks in the intro, existing templates that mimic D&D, either old school 2e style[1] or modern 5e aesthetics[2].

[1] https://www.ctan.org/pkg/rpg-module - click the PDF link to the package documentation to see the style

[2] https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template -- with great looking preview in readme

LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games | Sep 2023
And here's an Emacs org-mode compatibility layer to make writing your own D&D-style campaigns or handbooks even easier (if you grok Emacs):

https://github.com/xeals/emacs-org-dnd

Written around the same DND-5e-LaTeX-Template as the OP article:

https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template