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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. |
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+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. Vargr Deputy Calendar Champion Legend has it, that the Tarrasque is a huge fighting beast, perpetually hungry. Sleet entered History when he managed to get on the back of a Tarrasque only to be ridden out of History shortly after. Using Realm Works, Worldographer (Hexographer 2), LibreOffice, Daz3D Studio, pen & paper for the realm World of Temeon and the system LEFD - both homebrewed. |
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Sleet was enjoying a tasty beverage at his local tavern, when a Tarrasque showed up in the local area. He managed to valiantly get on it's back and ride it. How he did it is a mystery to this day... RW: Engine Heart, I Love The Corps! Home Brew: Star Gate: Avalon, Monda Minutia. I'm good with: OpenOffice, Paint, Lego Digital Designer. & not so good with: Realm Works, Hero Lab, CC3+, GIMP, Cityographer, Hexographer, Fractal Mapper, AstroSynth, Inspiration Pad Pro. RW Kickstarter Supporter. |
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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. |
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I use PhraseExpress for this. Works great.
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