Hi guys,
Starting to get into RW, and it feels like a lot of work, but I have convinced myself it will be worth it, so I'm sticking with it. I have watched this tutorial videos series, informative, but basic. So now, ofc, I have many questions. I apologise in advance if these ;
1) Firstly, Importing Question. I am an outside-in type of DM. I am currently running a tabletop campaign, and went to input the city I'm using into the world almanac, but found that the deities worshiped in said city aren't in the deity list. In fact, there wasn't a deity list at all from memory. So my first task was to create a new tag category, and enter every single deity in my campaign setting (homebrew campaign setting using extended D&D 3.5 content). But of course, just a tag is not enough, there will also need to be an actual topic in some list detailing domains(yay, another tag list to create) favored weapons, alignments etc. Then I'll have to enter every single race present in the campaign setting, again, in both the tag list, and creating an actual topic, annnnd then there's feats, skills, classes, and prestige classes. Thats all before I even get to the world itself. Is there a way to import say, a list of all DnD 3.5 races, classes, feats, skills, prestige classes, deities, domains etc into RW? I need topics and tags for all of them and it will take me over a month just to complete that task if I can't import them all. (If not, will I likely be able to make money selling a consolidated list of all of this in the marketplace as some kind of add-on pack for people's campaigns?)
2) Searching content. I am creating kingdoms, provinces, cities, districts for my world, all contained within each other in that order. In the world almanac, it makes it all fairly well organised by location. On a base level, thats fine, thats how they will be used for the most part.
But lets say I want to see a list of which Characters I have created so far that worship a certain god, or which cities have training options for a particular prestige class, whats the easiest way to filter these things by something other than their hierarchy? What if I want to do this search only within a particular kingdom or province etc? Can the players do this for only stuff that they've had revealed to them?
3) World Almanac vs Story Almanac.
I don't quite understand the difference between these two. I have been just creating my world in World Almanac, and was thinking I could copy some elements to the story almanac when the time comes, just to streamline currently used content, but is this the main/only use for the story almanac?
4) Revealing information in snippets.
It seems that you can only reveal snippets of a topic that has itself been revealed.
A mysterious stranger, an unidentified weapon, an unfamiliar monster. For all of these situations I would have preferred to reveal some snippets about the topic without revealing the name. Is creating a separate "name" field in each topic and then giving everything some very generic title the only way to keep its name a mystery whilst revealing other snippets about it? It seems very clunky.
Thats probably enough to get me started, thanks for reading guys, and thanks even more if you can help. I'm also interested in any more detailed or in-depth tutorials if anyone can point them out.
Starting to get into RW, and it feels like a lot of work, but I have convinced myself it will be worth it, so I'm sticking with it. I have watched this tutorial videos series, informative, but basic. So now, ofc, I have many questions. I apologise in advance if these ;
1) Firstly, Importing Question. I am an outside-in type of DM. I am currently running a tabletop campaign, and went to input the city I'm using into the world almanac, but found that the deities worshiped in said city aren't in the deity list. In fact, there wasn't a deity list at all from memory. So my first task was to create a new tag category, and enter every single deity in my campaign setting (homebrew campaign setting using extended D&D 3.5 content). But of course, just a tag is not enough, there will also need to be an actual topic in some list detailing domains(yay, another tag list to create) favored weapons, alignments etc. Then I'll have to enter every single race present in the campaign setting, again, in both the tag list, and creating an actual topic, annnnd then there's feats, skills, classes, and prestige classes. Thats all before I even get to the world itself. Is there a way to import say, a list of all DnD 3.5 races, classes, feats, skills, prestige classes, deities, domains etc into RW? I need topics and tags for all of them and it will take me over a month just to complete that task if I can't import them all. (If not, will I likely be able to make money selling a consolidated list of all of this in the marketplace as some kind of add-on pack for people's campaigns?)
2) Searching content. I am creating kingdoms, provinces, cities, districts for my world, all contained within each other in that order. In the world almanac, it makes it all fairly well organised by location. On a base level, thats fine, thats how they will be used for the most part.
But lets say I want to see a list of which Characters I have created so far that worship a certain god, or which cities have training options for a particular prestige class, whats the easiest way to filter these things by something other than their hierarchy? What if I want to do this search only within a particular kingdom or province etc? Can the players do this for only stuff that they've had revealed to them?
3) World Almanac vs Story Almanac.
I don't quite understand the difference between these two. I have been just creating my world in World Almanac, and was thinking I could copy some elements to the story almanac when the time comes, just to streamline currently used content, but is this the main/only use for the story almanac?
4) Revealing information in snippets.
It seems that you can only reveal snippets of a topic that has itself been revealed.
A mysterious stranger, an unidentified weapon, an unfamiliar monster. For all of these situations I would have preferred to reveal some snippets about the topic without revealing the name. Is creating a separate "name" field in each topic and then giving everything some very generic title the only way to keep its name a mystery whilst revealing other snippets about it? It seems very clunky.
Thats probably enough to get me started, thanks for reading guys, and thanks even more if you can help. I'm also interested in any more detailed or in-depth tutorials if anyone can point them out.
