Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-131168-20141129160252/@comment-452-20141129164406

Well, it would possibly go against your goal of KISS, but you could change Template:MB/Base to explode by |.

Incidentally, the reason it doesn't work how you want it is just because of the parser order.

Personally, I'd stick with the first way, although there is one change you could make: