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Posting cards to feeds

Posts in PostRoll share the same card system that powers spells, items, and NPCs. When you write a post, you’re filling out a card template: a structured set of fields that PostRoll knows how to render the same way every time.

This article is about the post side of cards. For worldbuilding cards (D&D 5e spells, items, monsters, fan art, etc.), see Creating cards.

Why cards?

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Plain-text posts work great for chatter — but the moment a post needs structure (a price, a poll, a session quote, a listing announcement), a free-form textarea leaves too much to chance. Templates fix that:

  • Deterministic rendering — a “Listing announcement” always shows the price the same way; a “Player quote” always shows the speaker.
  • Auto-fill from source entities — publishing a listing auto-drafts a Listing announcement card with title, cover, schedule, and price pre-filled.
  • Search & analytics — structured fields are queryable in ways free-form text isn’t.

Picking a template

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Open any Outpost you’re a member of. The composer at the top of the feed has a template strip:

  • Quick post — short text status with an optional cover image. Default.
  • Announcement — headline + body + optional call-to-action button.
  • Art — image-first post with title, caption, and artist credit.
  • Poll — question with 2-8 options.
  • More… — exposes Listing announcement and Session highlight. These are usually auto-drafted by the system; the manual entry is here for the rare case you want to mint one yourself.
  1. Click the template you want.
  2. Fill the fields. Required fields have a red *.
  3. Click Post.

The post lands in the feed immediately, rendered using the template’s display rules.

Auto-drafted posts

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Two flows seed cards on your behalf:

  • Listing announcement — fires when you publish a game listing with Auto-draft announcement on publish enabled. See Announcing & highlighting games.
  • Session highlight — promotes a session highlight into a draft post when you tap Promote to feed in the highlight library.

Both write the same card envelope a manual post would, so editing or republishing one is no different from any other post.

What’s not in this version

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  • Authoring your own post templates (today the catalogue is fixed).
  • Changing a post’s template after publishing (delete and recompose instead).
  • Card finishes / animated effects on post cards — those stay worldbuilding-card concepts.
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