Alexa / Google voice rulebook cowdsource project

By TerranCmdr, in Rules

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/2105887/alexa-google-voice-rulebook-bot-ask-your-home-assi

I saw this posted on Reddit and I immediately thought this would be a useful tool for Legion. My friend and I are only able to get about 1 game in a month, so we waste a lot of time re-reading rules during every game. To be able to ask for a rule out loud will save a lot of time! Plus, I think this could be a great tool for people just learning the game.

However, this is a very big undertaking for just one person, and my free time is extremely limited. So I wondered if anyone else would be interested in helping me bring this to life. The developer has created the tool in such a way that rules can be written in plain text, so no coding experience is required. I'm thinking of sharing a Google doc that everyone can contribute to.

The sections I'm thinking will be needed are:

  • FAQ / Errata
  • Basic rules
    • Army building
    • Setup
    • Terrain
    • Cover
    • Game round (phases)
    • Dice rolling/modification order
    • Suppression
    • Melee
  • Advanced rules
    • Line of sight
    • Tournament rules
  • Index
  • Extras
    • Assign damage to a vehicle (app will automatically roll and read out type)
    • Round counter
    • Round timer (?)

Most if not all of these topics are already covered in the rules reference, so it'll be a cut/paste job from the PDF with some creative thinking for the voice commands. Even if this ends up being just a voice-activated rulebook, I think a lot of people could get some use out of it.

Feel free to suggest new sections to add. I figure a person can claim a section or subsection to work on, then send me a link to their text file for me to put it into the "master" document.

Who's interested?

I'm confused about why this needs to get turned into a project. Since you know the text can be copied directly from the RRG PDF, and all of the entries in there already have very logical titles, what needs creative thinking or new sections?

I'm not at all trying to shoot you down, I just don't understand what makes this more complicated than one person spending 15 minutes for a few days to copy and paste the the text over.