How to Make Your Own Random Generator

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Meyer-Briggs Personality: [mb first] [mb second] [mb third] [mb fourth]<br> Moral Alignment Type: [ma primary]-[ma secondary]

Would look like:

Meyer-Briggs Personality: Extrovert (E) Sensing (S) Thinking/Feeling (T/F) Perceiving (P)

Love Attitude Style: Eros-Pragma

Now let's say you want the Meyer-Briggs and the Love Attitude to have a blank line in between the results. All you have to do is type <br><br>, doubling the tags. So:

Meyer-Briggs Personality: [mb first] [mb second] [mb third] [mb fourth]<br><br> Moral Alignment Type: [ma primary]-[ma secondary]

Becomes:

Meyer-Briggs Personality: Extrovert (E) Sensing (S) Thinking/Feeling (T/F) Perceiving (P)

Love Attitude Style: Eros-Pragma

If you look into the generator's sources, you'll notice that I have four line break tags at the very end. This is so if someone wants more than one set of the results, there's plenty of space in between each set of results so people won't get confused which category is in which set. It would be confusing if my results were:

Meyer-Briggs Personality: Ambivert (E/I) Sensing/Intuition (S/N) Thinking (T) Perceiving (P)
Moral Alignment Type: Chaotic Good-Lawful Evil
Love Attitude Style: Eros-
Attachment Style: Dismissing
Archetype: Hero - Outlaw
Meyer-Briggs Personality: Introvert (I) Sensing (S) Thinking (T) Judging (J)

Moral Alignment Type: -Chaotic Good
Love Attitude Style: Eros-Pragma
Attachment Style: Anxious/Preoccupied
Archetype: Jester - Regular Gal/Guy

But see how much easier it is to read if it's:

Meyer-Briggs Personality: Ambivert (E/I) Sensing/Intuition (S/N) Thinking (T) Perceiving (P)
Moral Alignment Type: Chaotic Good-Lawful Evil
Love Attitude Style: Eros-
Attachment Style: Dismissing
Archetype: Hero - Outlaw

Meyer-Briggs Personality: Introvert (I) Sensing (S) Thinking (T) Judging (J)
Moral Alignment Type: -Chaotic Good
Love Attitude Style: Eros-Pragma
Attachment Style: Anxious/Preoccupied
Archetype: Jester - Regular Gal/Guy

Don't manually push the enter button to skip the lines, even if you put in the line break tags. Just put it as one block of text, no matter how hard to read it is when you try to read the source. Orteil will treat each block of text as a separate result and instead of all five categories, you'll only get one at a time. If you need to edit it, you can break it up, but make sure to delete the skipped lines by the time you save it on Pastebin.

That's it for the HTML tricks, but now here are some Orteil tricks, much of which can be found in the "Make your own" section of the Orteil Dashnet site that I've already linked. I'm also sure that people in the forums will have more tricks that they've figured out if you ask, but here a few tricks that other people have told me. If you look at the source of my generator, you'll probably have noticed odd blank lines such as:

$ma primary

Lawful Good
Neutral Good
Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral
True Neutral
Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil
Neutral Evil
Chaotic Evil

That isn't a typo, I promise. In this case, I wanted a blank to also be a result, so I skipped a line, and on that skipped line, I pressed the space bar and then continued on the list. You can put it at the beginning of your list, or you can tuck it in between the results, but don't put it at the end. You'll more than likely forget it's there, or Orteil won't register that space as a result.

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