Template talk:Infobox Game: Difference between revisions

:Dice are a particularly chaotic value in this field. I think ideally it would be standardized to 2d6, 1d4, etc., while still leaving out the number on specialty linked equipment like Lightning die.--[[User:MCDeMarco|MCDeMarco]] ([[User talk:MCDeMarco|talk]]) 17:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

::Kataclysm and I were thinking to limit it to "dice" when only regular D6's are needed, "polyhedral dice" when regular D4-D20 are needed, then the special dice with their own pages like "Treehouse Dice", and we'd probably need a generic "Custom dice" option for everything else. The thinking is that this field doesn't have to have the full inventory, that's for the text in the main body of the page. This field would let someone who just has some pyramids and a couple of plain old D6's find games, or maybe they got a set of "D&D" dice which opens up some other options. But maybe the infobox could recognize "3d6" and just link that to "dice"... I'll have to play around with the searches. The problem with having numbers of dice shown is then we get games with entries like this: "One Six-sided die (d6) per player plus one extra die", maybe it would get abbreviated to "#d6" or something?

 

== New Talk (2024) ==

:I like this idea. What about things like Caldera reimplementing Volcano (ignoring the looney name changes), but designed for Pyramids. Are these perhaps variants/subpages of the original instead of reimplementations? Are you thinking that BGG_Link for Adaptation and Reimplements would go to the original game? --[[User:Eclectics|Eclectics]] ([[User talk:Eclectics|talk]]) 07:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

::There are variants that have a BGG link to a thread about the variant. I'm not sure I've seen many link to the original game; that's not necessary because the original game will link there. --[[User:MCDeMarco|MCDeMarco]] ([[User talk:MCDeMarco|talk]]) 17:59, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 

=== Reimplements ===