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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6773684" data-attributes="member: 11146">[MENTION=40413]GlassEye[/MENTION], I'm going to put you on the spot, and I apologize for potentially making you uncomfortable.  Everyone take at look at how GlassEye <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?473557-Out-of-the-Abyss-IC&p=6773652&viewfull=1#post6773652" target="_blank">formatted his post</a> for Raza.  What he's done is really helpful to me when we start combat rounds.  The salient points are that he's included a smaller sized pic of his character and has sblocked AC, hp, spells prepared, spell slots used, a link to the Grimoire, and special ability uses remaining.  I've done something like this myself in previous games I've played in, and it's easy to do.  GlassEye's is beautifully formatted with a pic, lovely colored font, and alternating font size, but I don't need all that.  The bits I most need are the mechanical tidbits I list above, along with something like "Inspiration: 1" or "Inspiration: 0," depending on whether your character is currently inspired.  Currently, everyone is inspired.  If you elect to rely on this format, what you do is either quote GlassEye to riff off of what he's done, or you spend some time (when you have it, do NOT press yourself to do this) creating the first formatted IC post, then the next time you post for your character (and every time thereafter) you'd quote your last post.  All the formatting stays intact and carries over.  All you do is edit out the text for actions and speech, replacing with whatever your character does that round.  Easy peasy.  If you adopt this format and decide to include an image, make sure you resize the image so it isn't ginormous.  I often use tinypic.com for image storage, but photobucket and any other site that generates a link (especially if it'll generate a link with tags) works.  Tinypic allows you to decide what size image to create.If anyone objects to doing it this way, no problem.  It makes it nice for me, helps speed up my ability to post because I need to do less cross-referencing, but it's absolutely not a demand.  Hell, it's not really even a request.  More, just pointing out something really well-done that is functional and will see use.  I am highly cognizant of it taking a metric ton of time to format stuff on the site, and we're all working adults here.  If it's a choice between nifty formatting and posting in the IC, always opt to post in the IC!</blockquote>

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