How do you start at all?!

[Dryder]

Wow, RW is huge!
I just started to enter the DRAGON'S DEMAND module from Paizo, as we are about to start this adventure in june.

Anyway, I now wonder how you guys start to enter stuff?!

I startet with the small town of Belhaim, adding rumors in the towns section, adding the map, etc...

[Zaphod Beebledoc]

I would start by creating the Topics first. Ctrl-Q brings up the Create New Content Element, which is a quick and easy way of creating all your topics.

Once you have all your topics in place, put content in them, which will then auto-create links to other topics.

One thing I will say is to do a bit of testing in a test Realm or a few Topics to get your topics the way you want them. Easier to do that than enter a few dozen or more topics and find that the content doesn't quite fit and you have to delete a few snippets from each topic.

[monsterfurby]

I have to admit that I don't run published modules or settings on principle, but entering my current campaign into Realm Works, I have learned a few things:

1. Find out what the main organizing unit of your adventure is. For most fantasy adventures, it will be locations. For SciFi/Modern campaigns, it might be organizations. For other systems, characters might do the trick, and so on.

2. Create all entries for this type that you possibly can, either filling them with info right away or as you go along.

3. Create entries for lower-level things and assign them to the appropriate entries.

4. Fill them with info.

At least that's how I went about it.

[MaxSupernova]

Originally Posted by Dryder

Wow, RW is huge!
I just started to enter the DRAGON'S DEMAND module from Paizo, as we are about to start this adventure in june.

Anyway, I now wonder how you guys start to enter stuff?!

I startet with the small town of Belhaim, adding rumors in the towns section, adding the map, etc...

If you go to HELP -> MANUAL -> WORLD BUILDERS GUIDE the entire first chapter is a discussion of the many different ways that you can approach entering a new Realm in to RealmWorks.

Also, if you go to HELP -> TUTORIALS there are two that might specifically be of use to you:

"Creating Your World" is a video tutorial on the technical what-to-click parts of creating a new Realm.

"Approaching Content Creation" is a video tutorial that discusses the various methods of entering data that are looked at in the WORLD BUILDERS GUIDE.

They are useful, take a look.

[Bidmaron]

Didn't I read somewhere that the system can't currently rescan entries to update links? That is, if you don't do what the second poster above recommended, there was no way to rescan entries for subsequently added content so that auto-links regenerate?

[zarlor]

Originally Posted by Bidmaron

Didn't I read somewhere that the system can't currently rescan entries to update links? That is, if you don't do what the second poster above recommended, there was no way to rescan entries for subsequently added content so that auto-links regenerate?

No, you can rescan links. There just isn't, currently, a GLOBAL rescan. You just have to go to each topic and tell it to rescan. It's really not a problem to do it that way, though, and it rescans for links perfectly catching anything you've newly created since the topic last did a scan.