Recent content by Fenris-77

Ahh, a follow Canuk. Hail and well met, eh?

My first real publication was a game called Vac Suits and Duct Tape, a sci-fi horror/exploration game written for the Trophy Gold rules. I'm giving some serious thought to porting the game over to Shadowdark. Not for simply commercial reasons (which do exist) but also because I bought a bunch of...

Big deal 1 - ,make sure that you have the right font size and type selected before you make the table. Then the basic row height will be broadly correct. Big deal 2 - don't worry about setting row height before hand. I always fill all the info in and then adjust the spacing in mm above and below...

What were you using tables to do?

OMG, the conversation remains at the center. Who would have predicted that? :LOL:

It all depends on what you're trying to do. I use tables a lot for layout because they are so cosy and contained, but it also took me a hot minute to figure out how to get the results I wanted for a given use case.

I'm always happy to weigh in. You posted a lot of pics (which is awesome) but I'm not sure where to start. Maybe pick a spread and we can go from there. I'm going to be picky as hell, but I'm not trying to be mean, just helpful.

That does sound like a pain. It also sounds like a problem generated by your workflow. I loathe working in word other than to generate plain text, so I haven't had this problem. I'm glad you brought it up though, workflow integration is important.

So let me be clear. I don't care what program anyone uses. If you want argue about apps this ain't the place. In context, about specific elements, sure, but let's not play roshambo about apps.

That's very interesting. I have no idea what text to table is, so perhaps you can expand for the thread. My layout approach is pretty organic and I write directly into layout more often than not, which might explain why I've never encountered that feature. I'm guessing you aren't looking for...

Software aside, if you have things to say about layout I hope you stick around.

Yeah, this sounds like a whole other thread. (y)

If it were for Sci-fi I'd tell you bust out the Traveller lifepath tables and let him loose. SD has some god stuff there. Mythras and Burning Wheel also have some great tables.

You could probably spend a lot more time making the sheet visually easy to scan. You have a lot of lines and not a lot of visual hierarchy to help guide the eye around the page. For reference, here's the WiP of the SD sheet I'm working on for my latest project: Not better or worse, just a...