Template:Alternatives/doc

This is the documentation subpage of Template:Alternatives. It contains usage information that is not part of the underlying template page.

This template is a work-in-progress and should not be used except for testing. It should be used within {{Dialogue}} for forward-compatibility, but shouldn't be backfilled into any other places right now. Erin Umbreon (talk) 03:55, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

{{alternatives|foo|bar|...}}

Displays phrases from in-game text which can vary depending on some conditions - for example, gendered or race-specific terms referring to the player character.

If you know what condition causes various alternatives to display, you can use named parameters to display them:

(TODO: document)

Parameters

This template accepts an arbitrary number of unnamed parameters, each of which is one possible phrase that could appear in the same position in the surrounding text.