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Referring to variables.
I'm about to start a game where I expect years of time to go by in game. As such, I'd like to have the NPC pages reflect the character's current age and not have to go and change all of them every time a year (or decade) passes. Is there a way I can have a place on my campaign (presumably a wiki) such that I can update the current year and the PC's ages will just update?
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Initial thought (no testing, no guarantee) - if you set up a DST for your campaign (this requires a bit of programming knowledge - disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer), you could conceivably hardcode in a global "year value", have "year of birth" field. And a second field for age that is "year + year of birth".
Then when time passes - you'd update the hardcoded year in the DST, submit it for reapproval - and all of your npc's using that DST would have their age autoupdate to the new year+birth...in theory!!