Talk:Monster Manuel (Entries)

Wouldn't it be better if we added it to the monster template? Spread it out, because, DANG, this page is going to be HUGE. --Johnny Treehugger 02:27, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

• Certainly this page will need to be split into several pages (although that is an established strategy for large pages). I wasn't sure if adding a new section to each monster would be better than this, but decided this centralized the editing. Perhaps a discussion is required? Another question to consider is whether we should modify attack/defense/hp in the Data pages to match the manuel entries... --Fig bucket 02:33, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
  • I edited one monster data to match the Manuel entry. Should I not have done that? --Poit Narf 02:49, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
    • Not a big problem. I'm likely being a bit over-cautious---it's not clear how accurate the data is, and it would be nice to have confirmation that everyone gets the same values, or to figure out what variance the manuel data has. --Fig bucket 03:00, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
    • I've been editing the monster data on a bunch of monsters over the last couple of days so the wiki manuel automatically matches the kol version. I was just about to go through the manuel entries and remove the attack/defense/hp from there and correct them on the monster's data page. Should I be doing this or leaving that data alone and make the modifications on the maneul? --IceColdFever 20:21, 28 September 2012 (CEST)
      • I fully support what you're doing, because if the entry doesn't match the in-game stats, it should reflect that; it seems odd to have incorrect data on the monster page and just mask it on the entry page. ~Erich ^t/_c 22:13, 28 September 2012 (CEST)
  • The existing Monster Compendium can likely be deprecated by this. --Flargen 03:47, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
    • We could merge the two.--Toffile 04:48, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
      • I propose we get rid of the compendium and have it redirect to the Manuel (entries) page, then have a separate page for extinct monsters that will never get researched (pre-fax regulars and pre-manuel uncopyables). How you want to handle Monster Data is up to you, since some, but not all, of that info is either on Manuel or will be in the future (element/phylum). ~Erich ^t/_c 22:19, 28 September 2012 (CEST)

How are scaling monster handled?--Shademaster00 04:04, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

• Baa'baa'bu'ran shows up as a 0/0/0 monster for me. I haven't fought any others.--Toffile 04:48, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
  • Black-and-White-Ops Penguin shows up as 0/0/0 for me, having fought it once. --Turing 05:26, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
    • Hipster combats, black crayon monsters and a few others are also showing the same results. I suppose 0/0/0 simply means that they scale? --Volc 06:50, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

So I think we should add a link to the monsters on the pictures, because having large blue bolded text everywhere would look kinda ugly. --JohnAnon 08:19, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

1 win gives "casually researched" and the stats, 2 wins gives thoroughly researched, and 3-5? wins exhaustively researched --Christog 12:54, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

Naming issues

What should we do when the monster name isn't the same as in the Manuel? (example: "THE Guy Made Of Bees" is under G as "Guy Made Of Bees")
Is it possible to add an extra option in the template for a different name? (example: the link [[place|text]] goes to "place" but the link says "text") --Christog 14:32, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

• Done and fixed (there is now a "|name=XXX" option in the template to change the name displayed). --Fig bucket 14:40, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
• This is the result of articles (the, a, etc.) generally not being a part of the "proper" name, I think, even when they are capitalized or otherwise distinctive. --Flargen 19:37, 19 September 2012 (CEST)

Monsters without entries

I'm not sure if this is the right page for this, but should monsters that don't give entries be included here? I had no success getting 'snakefire in the grassfire' to give any entries (I stopped after 5 tries), but I didn't want to add this until someone else could confirm. --QVamp 04:14, 5 October 2012 (CEST)

• first entry is guaranteed, so if you don't get the first one you can stop there. and the list is on the end of the page now. --Evilkolbot 13:38, 17 October 2012 (CEST)

mobs with no entry currently

• surely somebody must have tried Mother Slime? she's pretty easy to get, and the similarly encountered Hodgman, The Hoboverlord has them. --Evilkolbot 13:38, 17 October 2012 (CEST)
  • Sorted --Serin 14:35, 17 October 2012 (CEST)
  • Last I checked, all of the monsters from Canadia and the Thundergdome were missing also. --Johnny Treehugger 15:35, 17 October 2012 (CEST)