On Discord you can type /me before a message and it will make the entire post italic, the same as if you surrounded the entire post in asterisks but with less characters to do it.

There will be a plugin and macro system in the future for doing custom slash-commands. The way /me works in the web client for Discord is kind of weird and I don't want to implement fake slash-commands for Discord in Ripcord just yet. Until then, just putting asterisks around everything will do the same thing.

(Ripcord doesn't even implement the pseudo-Markdown text styling stuff for Discord yet.)