The template just works. The instructions are easy to follow. The styles are enough to start with.

Affinity Publisher is a very good alternative to InDesign with a very modest price (oneshot instead of subscription). Very good way to start publishing SWAG content.

Also, the author is available on Unofficial Savage Worlds Discord and provide help/advice when we need to.

I picked this up earlier today. So far it seems great! All the important stuff is explained and if one wants to keep the "official" SWAG trade dress, all the hard work is done.

I've been looking into alternative to Adobes creative cloud. Scribus was hard to get into, but Affinity Publisher fills the gaps in Scribus UI. Vinco created a usable template and instruction guide for making your own SWAG products. It's a great product that helped me better understand how to use Affinity Publisher to product SWAG content.

I was interested in making some adventures for SWAG, but have never done any type of publishing work before. This guide and template had me up and running after about five minutes of playing around. Paired with the SWAG Style Guide from PEG, you have all you need to get on your way to publishing your own products!

Until recently there were really only two choices in layout and page design software for writers/publishers who want to publish under Pinnacle's Savage Worlds Adventurer's Guild license, InDesign and Scribus. Professional designers use InDesign. Amateurs, which is most of us, use Scribus. But after a couple of years in beta testing, Serif software released Affinity Publisher 1.71.4, a full featured, professional level desktop publishing program at a reasonable one-time price (as opposed to Adobe's subscription model). That makes it very attractive for freelancers, small businesses, and hobbyists or hopefuls who want to take advantage of the SWAG program to bring their cool Savage Worlds products to the masses. What makes it even more attractive is this guide and template. Affinity Publisher Basics will not make you a professional, but it does translate the PEG template into Publisher, complete with the appropriate logos, fonts and paragraph styles and a handy PDF that outlines how to use the supplied template to build your SWAG product. The PDF covers importing text, using layers, placing art, and wrapping text. As the title says, it's basic, but it's a damn good start. Having rebuilt the PEG template from scratch in Scribus, I can say that using Affinity Publisher and this template & guide is so much easier it's ridiculous. If you just want to publish a one-sheet, Scribus is fine. It will do what you need it to, and it's free. If you have larger plans or want to publish something more elaborate, spend the $50 on Affinity Publisher and another $5 on this guide and template. it's well worth it.