Do You Want Text Files? (Poll) (Patreon)
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I received an email from a customer the other day, asking for the contents of one of our larger dressing books in spreadsheet format. They found the PDF unwieldy to work with, and difficult to extract from. Sadly, no such version of the book is available—I tend to flee at the first sign of a spreadsheet—but the request got me thinking.
Would You Use Text Files?
I think plain text files (the .txt format) could work particularly well for some of our books (and not work at all well for others).
For example, a plain text version of a 20 Things or Monstrous Lair instalment could be jolly handy. You could easily extract the entries you wanted to use and ignore the rest. I assume adding the material into a VTT would also be easier. (But here I would be guided by someone wiser in such things).
A plain text version of Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands, however, would be somewhat less than useful.
I've uploaded a sample text file (using markdown) so you can see what you'd be getting.
So would you want/would you use plain text (.txt) files, if we provided them? I’m keen to get your views, so please vote in the poll below.