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+Plugin that provides a set of gambling and gaming tools to facilitate contests and roleplaying on a GNU Social/PostActiv server.
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+This plugin REQUIRES either PHP7 or a polyfill for random_int that can be found here: https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat
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