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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5905071" data-attributes="member: 1">Ah, I see what you mean.I think there have been a couple of miscommunications re. terminology. Block and Generator aren't interchangeable after all.I hadn't really considered its usage in forum posts, though that's a good idea. Might be tricky as to when it's parsed - obviously not on post display (as posts usually are) because otherwise it would show a different result every time and to each reader. So that might be tricky, requiring an actual check and rewrite of every post at the time of submitting it.I also wasn't planning on have tables directly accessible by anything other than other tables and top-level generators.What I had in mind was this:I decide to create my new generator, "Morrus' CR1 Pathfinder Room Generator". I reckon it'll be easy. It'll need to roll on a few tables, but I see that the tables BOBSROOMSIZE and ALICESROOMADJECTIVES already exist, as does TOMSCR1MONSTER.So I make my generator. Unlike a table, a generator is a pretty, formatted thing. I design its format when I make it.  A table, on the other hand, just contains data.So my generator looks like this:This [BOBSROOMSIZE] is [ALICESROOMADJECTIVES] and [ALICESROOMADJECTIVES].In the [JIMSPOSITIONS] of the room is [TOMSCR1MONSTER]! It appears to be [ERICSACTIONS]. Which, when someone presses "Generate!" on my generator, spits out the result. It's formatted however I specified when designing the generator.  In theory that could be a complex HTML design/format which displays a full character sheet.So if I understand you right, a block is simply some extra data appended to a table? I was imagining a very simple user interface.  Creating a generator is filling in a form: name, description, full-formatted BB-code of HTML text entry box. So the user sees in the main generators interface, maybe after some searching/browsing for "CR1 Pathfinder Room":The following generators matched your criteria:Morrus' CR1 Pathfinder Room Generator by MorrusThis is a simple generator which describes an underground room and populates it with a CR1 encounter.[GENERATE!]The Ultimate Generator of Awesome CR1 Rooms! by HenryI designed this generator to describe a room in intricate detail, including furnishings, aromas, and wind factors.[GENERATE!]So, as you see, a Generator is a unique formatted thing which refers to tables, which are just data.Your discussion of blocks complicates things, though. So I'm a tad lost. So a block is a section of info appended to a table which provides both extra data and formatting?My main worry is that if I can't understands the concepts easily, then the users won't be able to either; and the primary aim has to be ease of use.</blockquote>

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