u/LonePaladin

When I'm running a game in Discord that lacks an automated combat tracker bot -- which is pretty much anything but 5E D&D and PF2 -- I generally rely on using a code block in encounters to summarize the situation. Show PC/enemy order of actions, status like HP, conditions, that sort.

And it seems like every six to nine months, Discord decides to change the color scheme of the type of block I use most often -- Markdown.

For the uninitiated, if you start a line with three back-ticks (the reverse-looking apostrophe above the Tab key), it starts a "code block" where everything between it and another trio of back-ticks is in a mono-spaced font. And if that first line, right after the three ` symbols, is a type of programming/formatting code, it sometimes color-codes the results. The one with the most options (that doesn't get too technical) is Markdown, which you start by using the code md on the first line.

Used to be, Markdown formatting was in mostly light blue, with some green and orange with certain punctuation, and you could make dark blue headers by starting a line with # or putting dashes or equal signs under it.

Except now those headers are bright pink and the light blue text is now green and the green text is now purple.

Dammit, Discord, quit screwing with this!