Does anyone have a line on the current rules reference guide as text only? I would love to have a physical copy but the current PDF would straight up murder my printer. I do have several local printshops to have it printed, but would rather use the resources I already have at hand.

Also FFG overlords, would you consider publishing a version of the RRG that is printer friendly, much like the fundamental tournament document?

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It's due yet another update soonish to account for even more keywords being added in previews.

I'd be happy if they provided a version that didn't have that background image. It would be so simple to do, and would save a lot of players money which would be better spent on more Legion stuff I printed out the last PDF and it used up an entire set of cartridges, costing me over £20, so that was one less expansion I bought!

While it is possible to extract the text from the PDF, it is quite a mess. There are many inline images (like hits/crits/surge sumbols). I tried it and this is a snippet of the sort of text you would retrieve:

RULES REFERENCE               VERSION 1.5.1                      Effective 09.12.2019Card EectAI: ActionBlockCalculate OddsClone TrooperCounterpartDisengageDistractDroid TrooperGenerator XImmune: Range 1 WeaponsInconspicuousJedi HunterMakashi MasteryScaleScatterScouting PartySecret MissionSmoke TokenSmoke XSoresu MasterySurge TokenVersatileWheel ModeNew additions to existing entries are marked in Blue.NEW RULES ENTRIES2THE GAME ROUNDA game of STAR WARS: LEGION is played over six rounds.  Each round consists of three phases.COMMAND PHASEPlayers perform the following steps:1. Select Command Card: Each player secretly selects a command card from their hand and places it facedown on the table. en, both players simultaneously reveal their cards.2. Determine Priority: e player whose card has the fewest number of pips has priority.3. Issue Orders: Starting with the player who has priority, each player nominates a friendly commander and issues orders with that commander. e number of orders to be issued is indicated on the orders section of the chosen command card.4. Create Order Pool: Each player creates an order pool that consists of all of their order tokens that they did not place on the battleeld while resolving their command card.ACTIVATION PHASEStarting with the player who has priority, players take turns activating units by following these steps:1. Choose Unit: e player either chooses a unit with a faceup order token or draws a random order token from their order pool and chooses a unit with a matching rank that does not have an order token.2. Activate Unit: e player activates the chosen unit, performing up to two actions and any number of free actions with that unit.3. Place Order Token: e player places the unit’s order token facedown on the battleeld near the unit leader.END PHASEPlayers refresh the battleeld by following these steps:1. Discard Command Cards: Each player discards their revealed command card; it cannot be used again this game.2. Remove Tokens: Players remove all aim, dodge, and standby tokens, as well as one suppression token from each unit.3. Update Order Pool and Promote: Each player places one of their order tokens on each of their undefeated units’ cards with a matching rank. If all of a player’s commanders were defeated, they must promote a unit leader from one of their trooper units to be a commander4. Advance Round Counter: e player who has the round counter sets it so the next highest number is displayed. en, that player passes the round counter to their opponent.USING THIS RULES REFERENCEis document is the denitive source for all STAR WARS: LEGION rules. Before using this document, players should read and understand the rules presented in the Learn to Play booklet. As questions arise during gameplay, the players should refer to this document. e majority of this Rules Reference is the glossary, which provides players with detailed game rules and clarications listed in alphabetical order by topic. Additionally, players will nd comprehensive rules for army building and setup, along with additional terrain rules.is reference contains nine sections:CARD ANATOMY PAGE 4is section provides an illustrated breakdown of each type of card in the game.ARMY BUILDING PAGE 5is section describes how players can assemble an army from their units and upgrades to play a standard game.SETUP PAGE 6is section details

I doubt they themselves have a text version of the manual and are more likely to use a program like adobe's indesign

It is also possible to open the pdf in a application like affinity publisher and remove all the images: like I have done: https://swlegion.space/ffg.pdf

9 hours ago, Ghost Dancer said:

I'd be happy if they provided a version that didn't have that background image. It would be so simple to do, and would save a lot of players money which would be better spent on more Legion stuff I printed out the last PDF and it used up an entire set of cartridges, costing me over £20, so that was one less expansion I bought!

100% agree. text-only would be impractical, but a printer-friendly version without the background image would be perfect.

7 hours ago, sigidi said:

It is also possible to open the pdf in a application like affinity publisher and remove all the images: like I have done: https://swlegion.space/ffg.pdf

This is great, thank you!

21 hours ago, sigidi said:

It is also possible to open the pdf in a application like affinity publisher and remove all the images: like I have done: https://swlegion.space/ffg.pdf

Nice!

On 12/15/2019 at 12:56 AM, sigidi said:

It is also possible to open the pdf in a application like affinity publisher and remove all the images: like I have done: https://swlegion.space/ffg.pdf

Thanks, that's useful but I like having the diagrams and such. Its that background image that sucks the ink dry!

3 hours ago, Ghost Dancer said:

Thanks, that's useful but I like having the diagrams and such. Its that background image that sucks the ink dry!

Well we can do that too , but I won't keep this one up forever as it is quite big. So if you are looking at this topic from the future.. hi! Good chance this resource is not working anymore. But since I live by the famous words of Terry Pratchett:

"Give a man a fire he will be warm for the day, set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life"

What you do is get access to an app that can edit PDF's. Like I said, I use https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ but others can probably do it too. Make sure you have most of the fonts installed (Minion Pro, Aero Matics and Outlier Rail, as far as I can discover all free) and open the pdf. Now you can edit it like a series of images, which all the different elements on their own layer. So removing the background is a easy as selecting it and press delete. Than export the whole thing and there you go. Some of the fonts are probably custom, like the fonts to display the ranks and hits/crits/etc but most of it comes out ok.

(I uploaded a new version of the txt as well, with the right fonts.. well for the most parts)