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All the of the predefined RPG behaviours have descriptions that appear on the battle dialog and when right-clicking. However, there's currently no way to add a description to custom monsters or equipment to descript any special abilities they may have.

So it would be good to have a way to add custom descriptors to scripts. Either as a var, or some sort of editable property.

Additionally, a specific character could be used to indicate when a custom description should be divided into multiple lines or sections. Probably ';' or maybe '|' if we're being fancy.

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12-18-2022 at 04:54 PM
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Can confirm this works great in 1.3.0.499. It adds to any existing descriptors.

(For anyone wondering, semi-colons are what was used to split the description into multiple sections)
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It looks like the description is only shown on equipment when holding it, and not while laying on the floor.

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Doing some investigation reveals that equipment laying on the floor only ever shows the stat change. It would be quite a big change to how tooltips work to show the equipment properties. It's probably desirable information, however.

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Thanks, hyperme!

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