Common Tasks

After you have read Your first world and Your first plugin, you probably have a specific goal in mind. Each page in this chapter solves one task.

World authors

Task	What you get
Pre-place quests, items, and affinity in a world	Start the game with quests, carried items, and relationships already in place
Point buy and dice checks at the start	Assign attribute points at the start, and let dice decide risky actions
Character portraits	Each character has its own portrait
Scene pictures	Each place has a day background and a night background
Collections	Install a world and the plugins it needs in one step

Plugin authors

Task	What you get
Add a UI to a plugin	Side panels, and forms and choices inside the story text
A plugin with code	The model can call tools that you write
Verify with a real model	Check how a real model behaves before you publish

Everyone

Task	What you get
Make and share a theme	Your own interface colors and styles, which you can export and share
Install plugins and world packages	Install worlds and plugins that other people made

Learn from the built-in implementations

For some needs, the fastest route is to modify a built-in plugin:

Need	Reference
Replace the narrator	narrator and chat-mode-narrator
Hidden story that appears only when conditions are met	story-events
Connect an image or voice service	Image generation and Media storage
Add day and night and the passage of time to a world	World time
Add a language to a plugin or world	Multiple languages

Don't see the task you want here? Suggest it on GitHub.