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Mathias
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Old January 14th, 2018, 10:03 AM
There's no good solutions for making HL match the book without having to leave very large amounts of white space on all the normal weapons, that don't need large damage blocks. I think I would display damage as much as possible, and special damages when needed:

5d6
3d6+2
3d6/3d6/3d6
5d6
De-motivators/Goober/3d6/3d6/Stun

Then, use the mouseinfo to let the user read the whole thing.

As TCArknight said, you can put that in a multi-line portal (which probably means you want spaces in the text, so HL can wrap it: "3d6 or 3d6 or 3d6") - note that if you have a multi-line text portal, and you're calculating the height of the template based on the height of that portal, the very first item listed will control the height of all the others - it won't be the maximum height ever needed by any weapon. So you'll need to use a little debugging or trial-and-error to find a fixed height that works for the biggest damage block.

In the description text for the weapon, you're not space-restricted, so there you can display the whole text, and the printout can do variable-height tables, so you're OK there too.
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