Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3234315-20190528181438/@comment-3234315-20190530083713

Actually, this is only one complaint, as the both things are connected. ;)

Enchantment and magical status are important mostly for weapons, to circumvent creatures' immunities. Same for cold iron and silver.

Infobox design allows to group fields horizontally. A good example of such an implementation is the ability scores row for creatures.

So, the choices are to have either several lines (up to four) underneath each other or to display them horizontally. For an item that has the same stats in all games and nothing has to be noted in these fields, this would look like this:

As enchantment and magical in most cases go hand-in-hand, and as cold iron and silver, as well as adamantine, are all materials, I thought "why not group them" when choosing the current design – especially, as all fields usually have very short (narrow) entries. So, I made two rows with three columns each, placing cursed in the enchantment/magical one (loosely related to the latter).

Next question of design was, how does it look if only one of the three possible columns has a value? Display only that one? In my opinion – which can be questioned – it looks better to show even "no" and "0" fields, rather than a single one, to make the rows complete … filled.


 * How the infobox should work
 * Notify me if it doesn't.


 * Valid only for those items that use a  – yet implemented – entry from this list.

Due to the importance (see above) of these stats for weapons and ammunition – not including bows, crossbows and slings –, those always show all these fields: a plain short sword (I do not link this because the page isn't updated, yet) will display 0 enchantment and "No" for magical, cursed, adamantine, cold iron and silver.

All other items will only show the row(s) if one of the fields has a positive entry, but still all three columns in this case (see the above mentioned design choice).

(And if you'd have followed the infobox documentation, CalOkand, especially "Set to '0' if not enchanted", then Coroniir would have looked better. ;) )

As said – these choices can be questioned. Anybody?

(I haven't got the meaning of your first paragraph, CalOkand.)