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Add Monster Lore template: Harper field-dossier scaffold for tracking learned creature properties (descriptive, no stats)
 
Redesign Monster Lore as a parametrized Harper-dossier infobox (replaces section-scaffold version)
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== {{PAGENAME}} ==
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; width:24em; margin:0 0 1em 1em; font-size:90%;"
''A Harper field dossier — what the company has learned of this creature, told in qualities, never in numbers. No statistics, no values: speak of what a thing shrugs off, not of how much. Open in the voice of the agent who filed it.''
|+ style="font-size:115%;" | '''{{{creature_name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}'''
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | ''Harper Field Dossier''
|-
! style="text-align:left; width:9em;" | Classification
| {{{classification|Unestablished}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Threat
| {{{threat|Undetermined}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Temperament
| {{{temperament|Unobserved}}}
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#e8e8f0;" | ''Where it is soft''
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Bites deepest
| {{{weak_against|Nothing confirmed}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Shrugs off
| {{{shrugs_off|Unknown}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Untouched by
| {{{untouched_by|Unknown}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Hard to unfoot
| {{{hard_to_rattle|Unknown}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Senses
| {{{senses|Unknown}}}
|-
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#e8e8f0;" | ''Provenance''
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Knowledge
| {{{confidence|Fragmentary}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | First catalogued
| {{{encountered|—}}}
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Filed by
| {{{agent|Unsigned}}}
|}<includeonly>[[Category:Monsters]]</includeonly><noinclude>
== Usage ==
A '''Monster Lore''' dossier records what the company has actually ''learned'' about a creature — never its game statistics. Every field is prose: speak in qualities, not numbers (''"shrugs off the cold as a familiar friend,"'' never an immunity list or a value). Transcluding the template files the page into [[:Category:Monsters]] automatically.


=== Dispatch ===
<pre>
The reporting Harper's letter to the company: what was faced, where, and the weight of the threat. Note how sure the circle is of what follows — a single sighting, or many.
{{Monster Lore
| creature_name =
| classification =  
| threat        =  
| temperament  =  
| weak_against  = What wounds it faster than steel should
| shrugs_off    = What it merely resists
| untouched_by  = What does nothing at all
| hard_to_rattle= What it cannot be made to suffer (fear, poison, charm...)
| senses        = How it perceives the world
| confidence    = Fragmentary | Partial | Well-attested
| encountered  = [[Session ##]] near [[Place]]
| agent        = Reporting Harper
}}
</pre>


=== What Bites Deepest ===
Follow the box with the agent's dispatch and prose sections. [[Category:Templates]]
Vulnerabilities — what wounds it faster than steel should. Write "nothing confirmed" if none has been seen, and record guesses as guesses, never as fact.
</noinclude>
 
=== What It Shrugs Off ===
Resistances and immunities — what merely glances off, and what does nothing at all. Name the kind (cold, fire, the bite of ordinary weapons), never a number.
 
=== Hard to Unfoot ===
What it cannot easily be made to suffer — fear, poison, exhaustion, charm, or magic it can simply refuse. The strengths of its will and its body.
 
=== Its Gifts for Murder ===
Signature powers — its breath, its presence, its flight, the manner in which it fights. Describe the experience of facing it, not the dice behind it.
 
=== How It Hunts ===
Temperament, lair, and tactics. Where it is found, and how it turns that ground against intruders.
 
=== Standing Advice ===
* Hard-won counsel for the next company to face it.
 
=== Knowledge Ledger ===
''Move entries upward as they are proven; the dossier grows with the company.''
; Confirmed
: Seen with the company's own eyes.
; Suspected
: Reasoned, but unproven.
; Still Dark
: Unknown — fill as you learn.
 
=== Encounters of Record ===
* [[Session ##]] – When and where it was faced.
 
[[Category:Templates]] [[Category:Monsters]]

Revision as of 04:55, 12 June 2026

Monster Lore
Harper Field Dossier
Classification Unestablished
Threat Undetermined
Temperament Unobserved
Where it is soft
Bites deepest Nothing confirmed
Shrugs off Unknown
Untouched by Unknown
Hard to unfoot Unknown
Senses Unknown
Provenance
Knowledge Fragmentary
First catalogued —
Filed by Unsigned

Usage

A Monster Lore dossier records what the company has actually learned about a creature — never its game statistics. Every field is prose: speak in qualities, not numbers ("shrugs off the cold as a familiar friend," never an immunity list or a value). Transcluding the template files the page into Category:Monsters automatically. 

{{Monster Lore
| creature_name = 
| classification = 
| threat        = 
| temperament   = 
| weak_against  = What wounds it faster than steel should
| shrugs_off    = What it merely resists
| untouched_by  = What does nothing at all
| hard_to_rattle= What it cannot be made to suffer (fear, poison, charm...)
| senses        = How it perceives the world
| confidence    = Fragmentary | Partial | Well-attested
| encountered   = [[Session ##]] near [[Place]]
| agent         = Reporting Harper
}}

Follow the box with the agent's dispatch and prose sections.

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