This Category contains a list of useful Templates on the wiki. Please see the individual Template page for documentation on their individual usage.

These should be some of the most commonly used templates, while not necessarily designed to be transcluded in pages, these templates are intended for users to copy the source code and paste that in to create a new page.

• Template:Contact
  • This is the basic template to be used when creating new run contacts. It is specially designed for ease of use.
• Template:ContactOld
  • An older version of the above. This version makes use of Template:Infobox directly, allowing more flexibility. For advanced users who wish to change something up from the default.

• Template:Player Character
  • This is the template to be used when creating new run PC pages.

• Template:Run AAR
  • This is the template to be used when creating new run AARs.

• Template:Faction
  • This page is the template to be used when creating new Faction pages.

• Template:Host
  • This page is the template to be used when creating new pre-made hosts for Category:Hosts

These are templates intended to be used on some of the pages created above.

• Template:RunHistory
  • This template does several things when placed on a character page.
    • Generates a list of runs.
    • Checks to see if the character has had a run in the past 6 months, and if so, adds them to Category:Active Runners. This becomes important with another template below.
• Template:PregenRunHistory

• Template:ContactTable
  • This template generates a table for Template:HasContact to be nested inside. It is intended to be used on character pages.

• Template:HasContact
  • This template will nest inside the table generated above, and will tag the contact using SemanticWiki markup so Template:ContactPlayerConnections will know to populate its table with the character's name, loyalty, and chips.
  • This template will also pull information from the contact page to populate the table.

• Template:GroupContactTable
  • Similar to the above Template:ContactTable, this template generates a table for Template:GroupContact to be nested inside.

• Template:GroupContact
  • This template will nest inside the table generated above, and will tag the group contact using SemanticWiki markup so Template:GroupContactPlayerConnections will know to populate its table with the character's name, position, and faction rep.

• Template:CDP
  • This template will count the number of times your runner has been tagged in an AAR since CDP was introduced into the Haven on December 11, 2019. It will multiply that number by 2 and allow you to add or subtract additional points from that number in order to keep track of your CDP on your character page.

• Template:Age
  • This template takes the character's date of birth and compares it to today's date, outputting their current age. Also useful for Contact pages.

• Template:InfectedPowers
  • This template takes the date of the character's first run and calculates the number of optional infected critter powers that character is able to buy.

• Template:Strain1EssenceTracker
  • This template uses some entered values plus the characters total runs in order to track a strain 1 infected current essence.

• Template:DrakePowers
  • This template takes the date of the character's first run and calculates the number of optional drake critter powers that character is able to buy.

• Template:IGTracker
  • This template takes the date of the character's first run and calculates the number of initiations that character qualifies for.

• Template:SearchTable
  • This template creates a pre-generated table for both matrix searches, and knowledge skills.

• Template:Guanyin Caution
  • This template generates a small warning on the top of a page informing GMs that the character has the Guanyin Mentor Spirit.

• Template:Infobox Portal
  • A variant of the standard Template:Infobox which adds a character portal at the top of the page. Requires some special setting up and it is suggested that anyone intending to use this have some knowledge of mediawiki formatting. Otherwise, seek help from the wiki department.

• Template:CharacterInfobox
  • A character info box .modification of the info ox

• Template:ContactDicepools
  • This template checks the Archetype set with SemanticWiki markup, and redirects to an appropriate template from Category:Dicepool Templates to display the dicepools for that particular Archetype. It also ensures the factbox shows up.

• Template:ContactInfobox
  • This template automatically feeds into Template:Infobox, applying appropriate semanticwiki tags. It has significantly less flexibility than using Template:Infobox directly, the format for which can be found at Template:AdvancedContact. However, it is designed for ease of use for new wiki users, rather than flexibility. Experienced wiki users may prefer to reference Template:AdvancedContact if they wish to do something different with the infobox.

• Template:Age
  • This template takes the character's date of birth and compares it to today's date, outputting their current age. Also useful for Player Character pages.

• Template:ContactPlayerConnections
  • This template, when placed on a contact page, will check Category:Active Runners for characters who have listed this contact on their character page using Template:ContactTable/Template:HasContact.

• Template:GroupContactPlayerConnections
  • Similar to the above, but intended for group contacts. Will check Category:Active Runners for characters who have listed this group contact on their character page using Template:GroupContactTable/Template:GroupContact.

• Template:AspectTable
  • This template will generate a table on contact pages for Template:PositiveAspect and Template:NegativeAspect to be nested inside.

• Template:PositiveAspect
  • This template nests inside of the table generated above, and tags aspects for the contact using SemanticWiki markup.

• Template:NegativeAspect
  • This template functions identically to the above Template:PositiveAspect, only it makes the text red so it stands out as a negative aspect.

• Template:GenerateAspectList
  • This template is intended to go in the infobox of contact pages, usually in the data19 field. It will automatically generate a list of aspects from the aspects tagged by Template:PositiveAspect/Template:NegativeAspect and display them.

• Template:ContactRuns
  • Checks Category:Runs for AARs where the contact or organization has been tagged using the SemanticWiki markup SignificantNPC::, and generates a table showing all the major runs that help shape their story.

• Template:Gamequote
  • This just makes a really pretty box you can write game quotes in. That's it. That's all it does. Exciting.