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Mmurphy

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Is there a way to move a snippit so it shows a hierarchical?

Snippet: There are 14 Gods, each with a specific job. Without the God, the job does not get done.
.......Snippet: Niagra, Goddess of water.

..............Snippet: Without Niagra, there is no water anywhere.

..............Snippet: Niagra is responsible for how and which direction rivers flow (rivers can literally flow in both directions at once, up hills, etc) depending on her will.

......Snippet: Odin, The traveling God

...............Snippet: Odin is responsible for the overall placements of objects upon the world such as lakes, forests, mountains as well as abandoned castles, dungeons, and cities.

...............Snippet: Without Odin, the world would be a featureless, flat rock.


I want to be able to organize my snippets so one only exists as an extension to the higher snippet. I plan to have some data repeated. When I created Niagra as a God, all these snippets did not need to be organized in this way, but I am working on a home page and to make sure everyone understands the power/meaning of the gods, I want the home page to have the same basic data but better organized (the players see the home page, the characters (with the correct skills) would see the page on Niagra.
 
Got to agree with Aaron, there.

Each god should be a topic (perhaps contained within a "Pantheon" topic) of the Entity type, and each god will then get their own snippets.
 
Yes, this is the plan for the Gods topic. I am working on the 'home' page that the "players" will see as an overview of the world. The Gods topic will only exist to those 'characters' with the skill to know what each god does.

I am also using this question as my base line. I think of lists as:
A)
...1)
...2)
......a)
......b)
...3)
B)
...1)

If this is not possible, I am fine with that. I probably organize things differently than most. I am starting to put detailed information in but am not able to actually keep some of the information limited to the previous snippet so I will have to just make the snippet longer and make all the information about (in this example A-2 'a' and 'b') all formatted into the 'A-2' snippet.
 
The hierarchy is what sections are for. So you would have a section at level A with 0 or more snippets under it and then section at level 1 with 0 or more snippets, a section at 2, then again for a and for b, etc.
 
I think the issue is that the expected usage is 1 topic per deity, with another (a Group, perhaps) listing them (with links to open the individual topics for details).

What Mmurphy is describing (if I read correctly) is having all of this information in exactly one topic, ever. The details of each deity are not in related topics; they are in the sub-sections of the one "Deities" topic. So the sections/subsections are the same sections/subsection groups repeated over and over. Or, he'd have to create a custom topic with 14 sections that each repeat the same sub-sections for 14 deities.
 
I too would recommend each god in its own section and a group called Pantheon or Gods to put them all in. That way you can refer to them in other places and link to them easily. Temples, dungeons, books, etc. that name a specific deity can link back to the topic that way. This could allow the players to learn about esoteric gods, demonic entities with god-like abilities and cults that think they worship gods.
 
Thank you everyone, I was hoping I was missing a 'how-to'. I was not.

I understand the recommendations of 'each in it's own section' and I already have this. I wanted a quick section that I could reference during RP'ing so I was not 'bouncing' between topics. In this example, I was looking for 'What God is in charge of Gravity' or 'what God creates and controls the weather' without having to bounce between 14 sections. Note the examples of what God/Goddess controls gravity and weather are known to me, I used these as my example because they are easiest to understand (I guess in most RP games, Gods are just there to annoy characters). Continuing this example, if I forgot what God controls gravity, I would have to stop and 'click' each god until I find the snippet that reminded me. I would prefer it to be on one page so I can scan that one page quickly and for me, scanning a snippet that talks about jobs and duties and then the 'sub-snippet' of jobs and duties would be faster still.

Thank you.
 
I'm putting all of that info into the group/container entry for "Deities". It lists all the deities as separate snippets so I can reveal each to players as appropriate. And it has links to each of them so I can look at details.
 
Could you create a topic (maybe use Concept) for each of the gods archetypes? Then you could put a snippet about the god that is in control of it in the topic. This would create links back and forth so you could look things up by the archetype or by the god's name.
 
Dakadin is on to something.

Here's a suggestion:

Create topics for each portfolio item (topic for weather, topic for gravity, topic for water, etc, etc, etc). Reference the relevant god in a snippet.
Create a topic called "Portfolios", to use as a container for the individual portfolio topics.
Create topics for each god (as entities), reference their portfolio in snippets.

Now all you need to do is go to the Portfolios topic, pick the relevant portfolio item you're searching for in the link pane, and it will point you straight at the god.
 
Each country gets a section on primary deities. The cleric mechanics section get's a link to the pantheon sorted by alignment. The deity entries reference holy days which populate the calendar.

And we're just getting started on the interlinkages....
 
You could do a Pantheon topic with a different section for each god.

Custom Section "Niagra"
Snippet: Niagra is the Goddess of water.
Snippet: Without Niagra, there is no water anywhere.
Snippet: Niagra is responsible for how and which direction rivers flow (rivers can literally flow in both directions at once, up hills, etc) depending on her will."

Custom Section "Odin"
et al.

Then there is only one page to go to look for what the god is in charge of, but you could still link to the gods' official topics.

Edit: D'oh. Aaron suggested this very thing in the second post.
 
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