User:Aldyron/Sandbox/Template Monster habitat-specific data

WARNING! You're in my sandbox. This is just an experiment. You are advised *not* to rely on what you find here, which I could purposefully alter (even making it wrong) in order to experiment with formatting, coding and other wikiful things.

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Chaotic notes

• It all starts with User:Aldyron/Sandbox/Template List of monsters in area, if you can decode my notes. :-)
• Reasoning goes something like this:
  • Use {{Monster}} as it is now
  • Skip parameters habitatNN and hnoteNN
  • Employ this template instead of habitatNN and hnoteNN
    • Employ multiple instances of this template for multiple habitats, one instance per habitat, covering all habitats of this particular monster
    • This template will support parameter "habitat" plus every parameter {{Monster}} supports, except for habitatNN and hnoteNN (would defy the template's meaning) and image (technically doable, but visually awkward, and few monsters would use that; only monster that comes to mind right now is Crooktooth; update: come to think of it, Crooktooth sports two different appearances in the same habitat, so not even him/them)
  • This template, by itself, will do little more than pretty-printing all parameters one after the other, and its output will look like what we currently can get out of a habitatNN + hnoteNN pair in {{Monster}}, so that main function should remain basically intact. Possibly, it will print nothing at all and just store some data.
  • But, when used with dpl, the data in this template will override the corresponding data in {{Monster}}
  • Different dpl queries will treat data in different ways:
    • As a primary objective, it should be able to display a horizontal table of habitat-specific data under the vertical list of default data in a single-monster page
    • Also a primary objective, User:Aldyron/Sandbox/Template List of monsters in area should eventually be able to display all habitat-specific data of each monster for the area in question, falling back to default data for each monster on a per-parameter basis (that is, if there's no habitat-specific "alignment", fall back to default {{Monster}}'s "alignment", if there's no habitat-specific "attack", fall back to default {{Monster}}'s "attack")
    • List of all Scorpions (for example) should somehow show all data about all scorpions in all habitats (secondary objective, will think about that later)