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Again, let me say, that this program is great. I personally love it and have put WAY too much time putting things in that I'll probably never use. I'm an IT guy and a tech writer, so I get too in to this stuff sometimes. The table support is...okay. Again, it's rudimentary, but it's functional. Once you get things the way you want them, you're good to go with copy/pasta. It's just when starting out that things can be a pain. |
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Yeah, I've had pretty good luck with the tables, and was pleasantly surprised with the text formatting tools. Copying and pasting from Word and Excel is pretty painless. I was actually quickly able to adapt formatting from an Exel character generator into a text snippet:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...a-20141101.png Authoring Kit Rule Sets (now with functioning links!): Qin: The Warring States Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space MEGS/BoH/DC Heroes (work in progress) |
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I tried to mimic your adversary sheet (shown in the image). But I'm lost. Is there a way to show me/us how you did it? It might be very interesting and usefull. Thanks |
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@Kairos wow! That looks really good, especially if you didn't have to do all the formatting yourself.
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It's a little bit of work to get it done, but remember that once you've made it once, you can just copy and paste the whole block from NPC to NPC without redoing it all. Hope that helps! |
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Yeah, it worked well. The skill tables came right over. I just centered the values in the columns and applied the highlighting.
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Would be nice if HL would do this type of formatted table output.... Simple tables for embedding with a link to the portfolio if we need more crunch. I've been making these by hand in Word but they're a wee little pain due to my insistence on 7 and 9 point fonts.
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FWIW, stats are the sort of thing I leave to PDF and Statblock snippets. (I'd use Hero Lab ones for systems with Hero Lab support.)
I'm doing my best to keep any fancy formatting out of Realm Works unless it gets better support for styles. :( |
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Joe, Thanks for the tutorial. But I meant the whole customized page. As described in your image. I know that most probably it is easy to do, but, for instance, I couldn't manage to create a new Topic (Danger) with all the data you put in it. And make this topic a default one I can create many time for all my NPC.
I hope I'm clear enough... |
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One option could be
You can copy topics with the existing structure. So you create one template By hands and then you copy it. |
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Actually, I've been looking at this, and while you could just create a blank topic with all your formatting, An even better solution (IMO) would be to have a custom topic created with actual data in the text fields.
That way, you could build the empty table once, and then just put in new info. Rather than the way it is now where you put in text and it becomes a tool tip. If you could set a default value for instance, that would be AMAZING. So say you had a field that was text, the label is ATTRIBUTES, the default value is: STR: DEX: CON: CHA: WIS: INT: You create a new topic, and just have to plug in your numbers. Now, to make that even better, put the table you want, formatted the way you like, in that field, and just plug in your numbers when you create a new topic. This would be great, don't know what it would take to make happen though. For now, duplicate topic is the way to go, no doubt. |
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