Template:BoomBox
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
| |
| Unknown | |
| Origin: | Confidential |
|---|---|
| Archetype: | Confidential |
| Security Level: | Confidential |
| Identity | |
| Real Name: | Confidential |
| Nationality: | Confidential |
| Occupation: | Confidential |
| Place of Birth: | Confidential |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | Confidential |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Physical Data | |
| Species: | Presumed Human |
| Age: | Confidential |
| Height / Weight : | Confidential / Confidential |
| Eye / Hair Color: | Confidential / Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| Confidential | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Confidential | |
| Equipment | |
| Confidential | |
| Updated: 11/15/2010 - Player: | |
From MercBox, through BlackBox, to BoomBox. Because, with all respect due, I don't like the layout of the current HeroBox. And I'd like to see it replaced with this, quite in fact. Thus, unlike the previous ones, this one is designed for maximum adaptability and full compatibility and other neat stuffs that end in -ity. Feel free to use. @Baron von Boomslang 18:48, 1 November 2010 (CDT)
Note that this page is only the root page of the BoomBox system. To use BoomBox, use one of the following templates:
- Template:BoomBox/Hero
- Template:BoomBox/Villain
- Template:BoomBox/Rogue
- Template:BoomBox/Vigilante
- Template:BoomBox/Loyalist
- Template:BoomBox/Resistance
The BoomBox is a template designed to give a overview of a character in a readily accessible format, with a lot of placeholders for the most basic of data on a character. As it's a potent and sometimes unintuitive tool, some documentation is in order. Eisregen did a good job out of explaining how this works here, so I'll just focus on the specifics.
BoomBox 101
The basic incarnation of the BoomBox (for a hero) is as follows. Copy/paste and fill out to taste.
{{BoomBox/Hero
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| name =
| archetype =
| origin =
| level =
| realname =
| aliases =
| nationality =
| occupation =
| birthplace =
| hometown =
| marital =
| relatives =
| species =
| age =
| height =
| weight =
| eyes =
| hair =
| powers =
| abilities =
| equipment =
| footnotes =
| player =
|}}
I hope Eisregen will forgive me for stealing most of the following descriptions. Additions unique to this box will be in cursive.
List of Parameters
First comes the image section.
- image - Character image. Should not be wider than 300 pixels. If it's too wide (or too small) it will be automatically shrunken (or expanded) to the appropriate size (but clicking on the image will display the actual image rather than the adjusted version). If you have no image, don't include this parameter and it will default to a placeholder image instead. Do not make this a link.
- alt - Alt text. What displays when you hover over the image. Defaults to displaying nothing.
- caption - Text that goes right beneath the image, if you think the image requires further commentary. If not, don't include this parameter and there will be no blank space between picture and name.
Second, the ingame section.
- name - Your character's ingame name. This will appear in big bold letters.
- archetype - Your character's AT (Blaster, Brute, Controller etc.). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- origin - Your character's Origin (Magic, Mutant, Natural, Science, Technology). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- level - Your character's Threat Level. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
Third is the civilian identity section. It has been reordered, repositioned, and had aliases removed improved.
- realname - Your character's identiy. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- aliases - Any other names (civilian or otherwise) your character may be using. Defaults to being left blank, in which case it dissapears.
- nationality - The country or interstellar empire your character claims citizenship of. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- occupation - What your character does for a living.
- birthplace - Where your character was born. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- hometown - Your character's current residence and stomping ground. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- marital - Whether your character is single, engaged, married, widowed or whatever other forms of voluntary slavery there are between two people. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- relatives - What kind of (relevant) relatives your character has or had. Most likely you'll want to limit this to any important characters that appear in stories or RP (such as Ascendant's uncle and manager). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
Fourth comes the physical section.
- species - Your character's species. This is mostly important for aliens, sentient fungi and the like. Defaults to 'Human' if not further specified.
- age - Your character's age in human (solar) years. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- height - Your character's height in feet and inches (I prefer the metric system myself, but since COH/COV defaults to imperial and for the sake of uniformity, feet and inches are preferable). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- weight - Your character's weight in pounds (see height). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- eyes - Your character's eye color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- hair - Your character's hair color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
Last are the cream of the crop, the so-called assets section
- powers - A place for a short listing of the powers your character possesses, eg. 'Weather Control'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- abilities - A place for short notes on your character's non-superhuman abilities, eg. 'Black Belt Karateka'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- equipment - A place to mention any notable equipment your character carries around, eg. 'Nemesis Staff carried at all times'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
- footnotes - Room for any notes you want available at a glance that aren't covered by the above categories. Unlike HeroBox, it will collapse if left empty
And just to sign...
- player - However you'd like to identify yourself. Ideally, you'll want to make this a link to your user topic (User:Yourname, eg. User:Eisregen). The use of Template:Link color may be recommended for, for example, heroes.
BoomBox Advanced
A relic of MercBox, left in for those special cases. BoomBox had some additional options. Most of them were pruned (for simplicity sake), but this one stayed:
BoomBox is capable of supporting multiple ingame incarnations of a character. Getting them to show up is as easy as setting the name# field to anything but blank, for example, putting in name2 = Sinatra will enable the second. At the moment, the implemented maximum is three. For example, the second one has the following fields:
- name2
- origin2
- archetype2
- level2
This wraps it up for the template. Enjoy. In Strength Salvation Victory for Arachnos! Just enjoy already!
