Vertical/Horizontal Numbering in Tables

[AEIOU]

I'd normally use a table for multiple events on the GM side and it would probably never be seen by players. It's a reference for me. If it's an encounter, it's set and will have a real category and it doesn't need a random table. If it's a random encounter, it's going to happen repeatedly ad hoc and I'll refer to the random encounter category whenever players are in an area where it is applicable and nothing will ever get revealed on it.

There seem to be a number of things that we would like to use repeatedly. And we've found ways to make them happen but it involves copy/paste. Perhaps rather than create every bell and whistle for every subsystem, LWD should instead add a clipboard where we can park commonly used snippets, tables, verbiage, templates, etc. I don't know what it would look like, but a single location that we can park things in.

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Cornelius

- Reveal on a cell level. Example when I use a table like in the example of Parody above. Like the results from a die roll. I can imagine that I only want to reveal the result that has been rolled by the players.

In this situation, where is a d% or similar table, I use separate snippets where the GM annotation is the dice range for which the text is applicable. This then gives me the existing reveal button on the snippet if the party need to know that additional information (e.g. a table of rumours).

Part of the job of translating a traditional written adventure into RW is changing the format of information to one which is better suited to the way that RW makes that information available (or indeed the way that any computer could make that information available).

[Cornelius]

Originally Posted by AEIOU

There seem to be a number of things that we would like to use repeatedly. And we've found ways to make them happen but it involves copy/paste. Perhaps rather than create every bell and whistle for every subsystem, LWD should instead add a clipboard where we can park commonly used snippets, tables, verbiage, templates, etc. I don't know what it would look like, but a single location that we can park things in.

A +1 for that idea. Some of it can be arranged by adding standard snippets to the category, but I can see application for this.

[Vargr]

Originally Posted by AEIOU

There seem to be a number of things that we would like to use repeatedly. And we've found ways to make them happen but it involves copy/paste. Perhaps rather than create every bell and whistle for every subsystem, LWD should instead add a clipboard where we can park commonly used snippets, tables, verbiage, templates, etc. I don't know what it would look like, but a single location that we can park things in.

This idea is beautiful in all its simplicity (hopefully also programwise).

+1 for the record.

An icon in the ribbon that opens an (independent) window with some groups in a left pane and a graphical representation of the various clips stored?

One group should be for non-stored clips (erased when RW closes down), the rest should be for stored clips, that you intend to use over and over.

And - this clipboard thingy should allow copying across topics and across realms.

[Zaphod Beebledoc]

Originally Posted by Vargr

This idea is beautiful in all its simplicity (hopefully also programwise).

+1 for the record.

An icon in the ribbon that opens an (independent) window with some groups in a left pane and a graphical representation of the various clips stored?

One group should be for non-stored clips (erased when RW closes down), the rest should be for stored clips, that you intend to use over and over.

And - this clipboard thingy should allow copying across topics and across realms.

+1 for this.

[Gord]

Originally Posted by Vargr

This idea is beautiful in all its simplicity (hopefully also programwise).

An icon in the ribbon that opens an (independent) window with some groups in a left pane and a graphical representation of the various clips stored?

One group should be for non-stored clips (erased when RW closes down), the rest should be for stored clips, that you intend to use over and over.

And - this clipboard thingy should allow copying across topics and across realms.

I love this idea. Definitely +1 from another table guy.

[Parody]

One alternative (internal to a single realm) is to make a collection of User Notes to store your clippings.

An external alternative is to get a clipbook application ("clipboard manager", "clipping application", or similar). These programs let you save data from the clipboard and paste it again later. Windows used to come with one but it was deprecated in XP and discontinued thereafter. I don't use one of these so I don't know how well it would work with what Realm Works puts on the clipboard for various objects, but it'd be something to try.

[MNBlockHead]

I use PhraseExpress for this. Works great.