Do you just need a link or the full post?

[MwaO]

Here's the critical links for 4e from me(MwaO) - they're all reasonably up-to-date:
Monk Handbook
Poachable Powers Handbook(this is actually the most important)
Hybrid Handbook
Theme Handbook

 

[Morrus]

Here's the critical links for 4e from me(MwaO) - they're all reasonably up-to-date:
Monk Handbook
Poachable Powers Handbook(this is actually the most important)
Hybrid Handbook
Theme Handbook

The full post. WotC will be deleting the content at the link on October 29th!

 

[MwaO]

The full post. WotC will be deleting the content at the link on October 29th!

There's a significant amount of color-coding to make things easy - is there an easy way to keep it?

Thanks!

 

[Morrus]

There's a significant amount of color-coding to make things easy - is there an easy way to keep it?

Thanks!

I'm afraid I'm not really familar with WotC's forums, or its formatting codes. You could try copying and pasting and seeing if the colour coding sticks. Vbulletin is fairly good at keeping that stuff, though we have dark and light skins here, so dark coloured text will be hard to see for half the audience. Try it and see! We'll all learn something!

 

[mellored]

i had no problem copying over, including colors. just the 30 second post timer, and some extra white space.
i used BBCode, with brackets. if you used HTML it might be different.

 

[Big Mac]

I'm afraid I'm not really familar with WotC's forums, or its formatting codes. You could try copying and pasting and seeing if the colour coding sticks. Vbulletin is fairly good at keeping that stuff, though we have dark and light skins here, so dark coloured text will be hard to see for half the audience. Try it and see! We'll all learn something!

WotC migrated their forums away from vBulletin to something else (I don't know what) several months back.

I think the BB Code is still in there, but they have hidden it in a WYSIWYG interface.

It might be difficult to copy stuff over to other forums, if there is complex formatting that involves custom BB Code tags.

I have done moderation on both vBulletin forums and phpBB forums, but have only done administration on phpBB forums, but I am pretty sure that there would be a facility to add custom BB Code to EN World, if you wanted to.

But doing that would involve work and testing and once they were in place, they would have to stay there (or posts would end up with broken tags). So it might not be worth making "retro-clone" tags that emulate custom WotC BB Code, unless there would be a permanent advantage to the EN World community.

Perhaps if Mellored could link to one of these "colour coded posts" and also copy and paste the post text into a <code> tag here, it might be possible to see what each tag does and you could work out if they would work OK with the EN World house style.

 

[mellored]

This is pretty much all you need for copying a WotC guide.

Colors
Goldenrod: Something you pretty much always take.
Deepskyblue: Grade A, and usually the most optimal choice.
Blue: Grade B, solid, if not quite optimal.
Black: Grade C, it passes, but don't expect much wow from it.
Darkviolet: Situation, most of the time you should pass on this, but there are corner cases that can really make this good.
Red: Grade F, avoid. At best you just wasted your choice, but it might actually hurt you.

[color=goldenrod]Goldenrod[/color]: Something you pretty much always take.
[color=Deepskyblue]Deepskyblue[/color]: Grade A, and usually the most optimal choice.
[color=Blue]Blue[/color]: Grade B, solid, if not quite optimal.
Black: Grade C, it passes, but don't expect much wow from it.
[color=Darkviolet]Darkviolet[/color]: Situation, most of the time you should pass on this, but there are corner cases that can really make this good.
[color=Red]Red[/color]: Grade F, avoid. At best you just wasted your choice, but it might actually hurt you.

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[MwaO]

Actually, if you copy the WotC text and then make sure to turn on the WYSIWYG button in the Advanced options, it pastes in reasonably well.