Content — RoarGuild Add-on

RoarGuild — writing, emotes and board content

ROAR as a design motif

ROAR is both a game-native gesture and an identity word. The fresh install's shared emote registry starts with ROAR at ID 1, and the manual /rogu roar command unconditionally performs ROAR. A configured instance can instead select from multiple user-registered emote tokens via numeric IDs.

A built-in DoEmote token is not custom voice acting, bespoke animation or authored text. The current code uses user-entered tokens without confirming they are supported by the specific client; verify results in-game.

Guild invitation language

The committed inviteText array contains friendly, hand-curated invitation variants chosen randomly by /rogu invite. Their recurring content values are:

Theme	Editorial voice
Curiosity	Azeroth as a place worth wandering and exploring
Kindness and respect	Welcoming fellow players without performance gatekeeping
Celebrating the ordinary	Laughs, level-ups, loot and little adventures
Shared narrative	Stories and memories matter as much as progression
Playful identity	A collective roar is an invitation, not a command

The development record includes a notable 2026-09-03 revision from longer/more rhymed recruitment pieces to shorter accessible messages. The Git diff establishes that textual change; it does not reconstruct the creator's hidden reasons for approving or revising particular word choices.

The source sends these lines through a numeric channel chosen by the user (default 1). Never claim channel 1 is guaranteed to correspond to General on every client.

Roarboard writing and reactions

A post contains a username, creation time, activity timestamp, reaction count and body text.
Locally composed post text is restricted by string.len to 180 bytes, not 180 Unicode characters.
The board displays a preview shortened to about 42 bytes/characters according to Lua string operations; UTF-8 behavior has not been verified.
“Roar” is a visible appreciation/reaction mechanic that increments roarcount and resets the activity window.
Posts are pruned locally seven days after their last activity, not seven days after original creation if people keep reacting.

Roarboard is not private just because its interface says it is “for the people of ROAR”. It uses a custom chat channel and trusts protocol fields that any matching channel sender may provide. Avoid writing anything intended to be confidential or unmoderated abuse-resistant.

Portfolio writing guidance

Preserve the author's original artistic statement—“Characters are not loadouts. They are stories in motion.”—while clearly separating built-in game emotes, project-authored guild copy, AI documentation writing and user-generated board posts. Do not publish actual players' posts or names in an external portfolio without their permission.

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