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<blockquote data-quote="KahlessNestor" data-source="post: 6896339" data-attributes="member: 6801311"><p>Jago has some very good suggestions. I would give a few caveats, however. I dislike the use of colors denoting dialogue. Coming from more of a writing game background than a tabletop background, I find it makes for lazy writing and reading. Also, a lot of colors don't show up well in some situations. I find I have a lot of trouble with them on my mobile. Italics for internal thought is fine. I suppose Bold for dialogue, if you really feel you must "color", though again, I don't think "wall of text" should be a problem in a writing game.</p><p></p><p>A bit of advice about the spoiler blocks: Mobile devices don't handle coding, so if you put huge amounts of text in them, say, your whole character sheet, or near abouts, all that is going to do is make reading it hard, as we have to scroll all the way through all of that to get to the next post. So keep everything succinct with the bare minimum needed (HP, AC, tracked resources like a brief spell list or ammunition) and slap in a link to the character sheet for anything else.</p><p></p><p>That said, welcome to the game forums!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KahlessNestor, post: 6896339, member: 6801311"] Jago has some very good suggestions. I would give a few caveats, however. I dislike the use of colors denoting dialogue. Coming from more of a writing game background than a tabletop background, I find it makes for lazy writing and reading. Also, a lot of colors don't show up well in some situations. I find I have a lot of trouble with them on my mobile. Italics for internal thought is fine. I suppose Bold for dialogue, if you really feel you must "color", though again, I don't think "wall of text" should be a problem in a writing game. A bit of advice about the spoiler blocks: Mobile devices don't handle coding, so if you put huge amounts of text in them, say, your whole character sheet, or near abouts, all that is going to do is make reading it hard, as we have to scroll all the way through all of that to get to the next post. So keep everything succinct with the bare minimum needed (HP, AC, tracked resources like a brief spell list or ammunition) and slap in a link to the character sheet for anything else. That said, welcome to the game forums! [/QUOTE]
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