Ye Olde Inn

Does anyone have the original HQ rules (prefereably UK version) in a word file or something? I want to reproduce the rule book in the same format but edit and add rules.

Nope.
If you don't find a word version, you could make it yourself:
There are many tools out there in the net to convert pdf into Word format. More often than not, the result will require much reworking, but it's still better than having to retype it from the scratch. I assume you already have downloaded the rules from the Olde Inn...
If you use a scanned version of the original rules, the pdf will consist of pictures only, not real text. In this case you'll need OCR software (ABBYY fine reader works well, and you can download a free trial version).

Thanks, I'll give it a go. (it is unlikely that there's a real text version out there).

I just can't wait to get my modifications into something that looks like the original rules booklet (along with some extra pictures). It's my latest HQ project.

First off - I might suggest you simply take the rules book and rewrite it yourself...it would probably save you
a lot of trouble reworking anything you copy from a PDF or other format. It won't take long...it's a short
rules book.

Second...might I suggest you use Power Point. MS PP will allow you to move things around a lot more
easily than will MS Word, and will allow the addition of pictures tables and charts and such more easily.
You can also then take the slide show and (with newer version of power point) turn it into a PDF which
can then be printed more easily than a word document.

Power Point also allows you to change the background colors and pictures, as well...you can make your
rules book look really nice if you put a little work into that sort of stuff.

I was going to use autocad. Probabaly will end up writing it all out, I only have small changes to make to the rules so the book will mostly be the same as the original.

torilen wrote:Second...might I suggest you use Power Point.

When positioning of pictures or Text areas in a print document is an issue, I'd prefer Adobe Illustrator.

I'd probably agree with you about Adobe Illustrator - I've never used it.
I only say Power Point because it offers a lot more versatility than MS Word,
and it comes on almost every computer bought and sold - its not something extra
you have to go out and spend money on.

I'e finished my rulebook. My set didn't come with a rulebook so I've written my own out and used the opportunity to add my few house rules and correct some of the grammer in the original set. I also renamed "evil wizard player" to "dungeon master" and "Character players" to "hero players".

I was editing from the eu rules, not sure if this was the old version or the new version.

If anybody reads my rules and spots something that doesn't make sense or spelling mistakes, please let me know.

Finally, check out my game Contents list at the start, that's worth a look see

Following pages 1 to 9, I can't make a combined pdf file unfortunately.

If anybody wants a copy of the word file of the rules mostly without my amendments I can tidy it up and post it.