I'm going to be starting a new treatise soon, and will be using these thoroughly, and very much do NOT want to merely use placeholders, particularly as I'll be using them quite often in my post.

I've seen some of y'all being able to put some into text proper, and wish to learn your secrets.
Halp!

I don't know how to do it myself, but if you find a post that has them, you can quote the text that contains them, then using the "lightswitch" in the editor window to toggle the wysiwyg editor, and see what code is being used...

At least some of the people using them have (or know where they are) images on the web that the link to with img tags.

I found these in a post:

I don 't know how well they fit inline with text, but a quick test?

blank attack: , Focus Attack: , hit: , crit: etc.

I don 't know how well they fit inline with text, but a quick test?

blank attack: , Focus Attack: , hit: , crit: etc.

You could always crop them and then save them somewhere then link to the new ones.

That might help.

Maybe.

Perhaps not perfect, but you get the idea:

I found these in a post:

Yep, I hosted those on my server and posted them.

They're the images VASSAL uses for dice.

The links are as follows:

Attack, Blank:  [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/ab.png]
Attack, Focus:  [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/af.png]
Attack, Hit:    [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/ah.png]
Attack, Crit:   [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/ac.png]
Defense, Focus: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/df.png]
Defense, Evade: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/de.png]
Defense, Blank: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/db.png]

The best we could possible get is for FFG to add dice symbols to the available Smileys!

EDIT: I switched the triangle images with the square images, so now all our posts are screwed up, hehe.

I just added some small versions that should look good inline with text! They're not perfect though, so I might try and clean them up later, but the links won't change.

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Attack, Blank,  Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/abs.png]
Attack, Focus,  Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/afs.png]
Attack, Hit,    Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/ahs.png]
Attack, Crit,   Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/acs.png]
Defense, Focus, Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/dfs.png]
Defense, Evade, Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/des.png]
Defense, Blank, Small: [img=http://kbelisle.ca/XWDI/dbs.png]

EDIT: I switched the triangle images with the square images, so now all our posts are screwed up, hehe.

First I was like

Then it

And my mind was all

Yeah, I can see myself growing to like these.

Would these work better?

It loses the triangle/D8 shape, but looks better in text.

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PS: Don't use these yet. If people like 'em I'll replace the small triangle ones with them.

EDIT: I switched the triangle images with the square images, so now all our posts are screwed up, hehe.

Would these work better?

It loses the triangle/D8 shape, but looks better in text.

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The squares are my favorite of the bunch.

(edited to make sense after the change)

I'd love if FFG would make both dice and all cards available in the forums. Kinda like many Hearthstone forums makes the card pop up on mouseover when you write the card name in a forum post. (Follow the link and try mousing over the colored texts to get an idea on how this works, and how useful it is.)

I imagine reading fleet lists would be much easier if you could simply write Soontir Fel or Royal Guard TIE, and the actual card would show when you mouse over the text. This would probably be even more useful for the LCG forums.

The height is pretty good for going inline with text

[img=http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/Jhbartlett/crit.png]
[img=http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/Jhbartlett/focus.png]
[img=http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/Jhbartlett/hit.png]
[img=http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt61/Jhbartlett/evade.png]

EDIT: Added

FFG should add these as smileys at the same time as they give us new avatar pictures...oh wait...we may be waiting a while.

Out of interest is there a cap on the number of images in a post? Because that could become an issue.

Out of interest is there a cap on the number of images in a post? Because that could become an issue.

Now we need just each of the dial maneuvers in white/red/green.

The height is pretty good for going inline with text

EDIT: Added

I considered going symbol-only (no background color), but it has 2 problems:

1. You can't represent a blank die result.
2. The site has 2 themes, a light one and a dark one. Making an icon that will be easily visible on both is harder.

I considered going symbol-only (no background color), but it has 2 problems:

• You can't represent a blank die result.

But you can, though:

Hit Crit Blank Focus

But as for people using the dark site background, well, I have nothing for that.

I considered going symbol-only (no background color), but it has 2 problems:

• You can't represent a blank die result.

But you can, though:

Hit Crit Blank Focus

But as for people using the dark site background, well, I have nothing for that.

As a person using the dark site background, black still looks pretty snazzy.

I really like the red/green square versions as well, though.

Just gave a try. I like it, but I do prefer the in-line look of the squarish ones.
Plus, being colored, you don't have to worry about which background the poser is using.

However, on the triangular blips, there's actually a white outline, which is kind of distracting to those who use the older format.

I just switched the small triangle images with the small square images, so now the images in previous posts are all switched.

In case anyone got confused reading the thread... Hehe.

Check this out!

This is how Han Solo, with Luke Skywalker Crew and Predator works:

• First, I rolled:
• So I used Han's ability and got:
• Defender rolled:
• So Gunner triggered, and I rolled:
• Then used Predator:
• And Luke:
• Defender rolled:
• And I won!

~100 lines of PHP and some .htaccess magic...
Each result set is a single image, generated on the fly!
Should help avoid the limit of 10 (?) images per post!

Here's how:

Attack dice: [img=kbelisle.ca/XWDI/.png?a=chfb]
Defense dice: [img=kbelisle.ca/XWDI/.png?d=efb]

Attack dice:
Defense dice:

Looks slick.

Nice!