Draw Steel Compendium

Draw Steel Compendium is an independent product published under the DRAW STEEL Creator [[LICENSE|License]] and is not affiliated with MCDM Productions, LLC. DRAW STEEL © 2025 MCDM Productions, LLC.

This repo does all the heavy lifting of converting packet docs (in markdown form) into alternate formats. See the etl directory for the conversion logic. It's a mess, good luck!

Please use this form to report bugs if you find them!

Development

Quick Start

• Setup inputs: expected files
  • input/heroes/Draw Steel Heroes.md
  • Bunch of "section config" yaml files in input/heroes/
• run devbox run gen to generate everything
• git push all the data-* repos that have been updated
• (in the compendium project run just update to update the website with new data-* repo commit)

Data Flow

flowchart TB
    pdf["PDF: Heroes Book"] --> markdown["Markdown: Heroes Book"]
    
    markdown --> html["HTML: Heroes Book"]
    
    html --> html_chapters["HTML: Chapters"]
    html --> html_abilities["HTML: Abilities"]
    html --> html_dots["HTML: ..."]
    html --> html_kits["HTML: Kits"]
    
    html_chapters --> md_chapters["Markdown: Chapters"]
    html_abilities --> md_abilities["Markdown: Abilities"]
    html_dots --> md_dots["Markdown: ..."]
    html_kits --> md_kits["Markdown: Kits"]
    
    md_chapters --> md_chapters_formatted["Processed Markdown: Chapters"]
    md_abilities --> md_abilities_formatted["Processed Markdown: Abilities"]
    md_dots --> md_dots_formatted["Processed Markdown: ..."]
    md_kits --> md_kits_formatted["Processed Markdown: Kits"]
    
    md_chapters_formatted --> rules_md["Repo: data-rules-md"]
    md_abilities_formatted --> rules_md["Repo: data-rules-md"]
    md_dots_formatted --> rules_md["Repo: data-rules-md"]
    md_kits_formatted --> rules_md["Repo: data-rules-md"]
    
    rules_md --> data_md["Repo: data-md"]
    bestiary_md --> data_md["Repo: data-md"]
    adventures_md --> data_md["Repo: data-md"]

    data_md --> sc_site["SteelCompendium.io site"]

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