Thread:DaNASCAT/@comment-3361105-20140612155646/@comment-3361105-20140617175604

The ideal thing would be to have the template call on (and hide) the first 200 characters of the character history (if there is one). The dpl was just to get around the fact that in most cases, the variable {{{HistoryText}} is far too long to be used as a string.

Having to write up a special "snippet" for every single character page manually for a table to call on is the opposite of what I'd like to be doing. That's why it was automated with dpl and checks, to find places to get the data from automatically, as an alternative to trying to use as a string.