Star Army

Star ArmyⓇ is a landmark of forum roleplaying. Opened in 2002, Star Army is like an internet clubhouse for people who love roleplaying, art, and worldbuilding. Anyone 18 or older may join for free. New members are welcome! Use the "Register" button below.

Note: This is a play-by-post RPG site. If you're looking for the tabletop miniatures wargame "5150: Star Army" instead, see Two Hour Wargames.

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With Love From The Star Army Wiki: Randomness

I have a wonderful surprise for you guys!

This is something not just for you, but for all of our fellow roleplaying communities running Dokuwiki. What is it? Star Army just paid for its first custom-made Dokuwiki plugin! I paid the developer of Dokuwiki, Andreas Gohr, to make a custom plugin that randomly displays text from a list of options. This is going to let us make wiki pages where parts of them are different on each page load - so now we can make a page called "Random Nekovalkyrja" and actually have a new random Nekovalkyrja on it every time the page is visited.
  • Here's the page for the plugin: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:rndtxt
  • Syntax is explained on the page
  • It can also be downloaded directly from the admin panel's extension manager if you have a Dokuwiki you run.
Example of the plugin in use: https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=wip:randomness_demo (note: WIP namespace requires a login)

More to come when I get time. I hope to start making more generators and moving some of the old PHP-based generators onto this. The idea is to "Democratize" the generators. Instead of me being the only one on SARP who can make them, now anyone can create a generator page or make pages (for example, places pages) that have random parts in them like the local weather changing. There's a lot of possibilities. Furthermore, this plugin is available to everyone and I hope other RPG communities find it useful as well.
 
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