The World: your campaign wiki
Entries, folders, tags, [[ ]] links, relations, secrets, the graph, timeline and public wiki of your campaign World.
The World is the living encyclopedia of your campaign. Places, NPCs, lore, notes, handouts, prices and quests are entries on one shelf: you filter them by type, folder or tag, view them as cards, as a table or as a graph, and link them to each other with [[brackets]]. The GM writes it; each player only sees what the GM lets them see.
Where to find it
In the campaign, in the World room of the left rail, press World. Without leaving the table, the dock has the World entry, which opens the same section in a window.
The header gathers the controls. On the left, the view selector: Entries, Table and Graph. Next comes the Images menu, which decides how images are laid out, and, for whoever runs the game only, New entry and Manage. The "⋯" menu at the end exports the content as a package.
Requirements and permissions
- Players: read the entries the GM has published for them, using search, filters and the three views. They never see secret blocks or secret relations.
- GM: creates, edits, moves, hides and removes entries, manages folders, categories, templates and the timeline, and publishes the wiki.
- Authorship: an entry can also be edited by the person listed as its author, even if they do not run the table.
Step by step
Writing an entry
- Press New entry and choose Entry. The other two routes in the menu are Book (an adventure in chapters) and NPC group (a band, a faction, a crew).
- Write the Title and pick What it is: place, NPC, lore, note, handout, prices or quest. If you filter by a type before pressing the button, the entry is born with that type.
- Pick the Folder. If it does not exist yet, the dropdown offers "Another folder…" and asks for the name.
- Write the Text. When you type
[[, the editor offers the entries of the world so you can link them. - Decide who sees it with Who sees it: Everyone, GM only or Choose (specific teams or players). A new entry starts as "GM only", so no player sees it by accident.
- Press Save. Next to the form, the preview shows you the entry as you will see it and as the group will see it.
Finding and reading
- Type in the search box ("Search the world") or press a type: Places, NPCs, Lore… Next to each type you see how many entries it has.
- Narrow by folder with the folder selector and by Tags (you can tick several). If any NPC has a status set, a status filter appears too.
- While filters are on, a counter says how many entries are left out of the total. If none is left, the screen offers Clear filters.
- Press an entry to read it. It opens full width, with the Index on one side, grouped by Folders or by Types, and with arrows to jump to the previous or next entry.
- Back to the World takes you back to the list.
Links, relations and secrets
Links. Write [[Title]] to link another entry and [[Title|text]] to show different text. With ![[Title]] the image of that entry is shown. A link ignores capitals and extra spaces, and it also matches the names you write in Other names, inside the More section of the editor. A link to something that does not exist yet is drawn dimmed: you can write before the world is complete. Every entry shows, at the bottom, Mentioned in: the other entries of the World and the Journal that name it.
Relations. In the Relations section of an entry, press Relate, choose the other entry and the type ("How they are related"). Relations read from both sides: if Aldis is Brom's mother, from Brom it reads "child of Aldis". There are built-in types (parenthood, partner, alliance, enmity, membership, rule, service and location) and you can define your own in Manage › Relationship types, with a colour and a reading in each direction. With the "Only the GM sees it" switch, no player sees the relation. When an entry has family ties, its right-click menu offers Family tree.
Secrets. The Block for you only button inserts a :::secreto … ::: block. When you save, that text leaves the body of the entry and is stored separately: the server never hands it to any player, so it is not enough for the screen to hide it. Separately, ||like this|| is a spoiler: it does reach the player, but covered until they press it.
For NPCs, the What the table sees section fine-tunes how much players see: Nothing, Card, Fields (the ones you tick) or Full sheet.
Folders and tags
Folders nest with / (for example, The marsh/Surroundings). They are created by choosing a new folder in the editor or from the right-click menu of a folder in the index, which offers New subfolder, Rename folder, Show only this folder and Remove the folder and what is in it. The last one also deletes what is inside, across the whole app; the notice carries Undo.
To move an entry, use Move to in its right-click menu or, with the entry open, drag it onto a folder in the index. With Select several, in the Manage menu, you pick several entries and change their type, move them, tag them, hide them or delete them in one go.
Tags are typed, separated by commas, in More › Tags, and they feed the list filter.
The graph
In Graph, each entry is a dot (its shape and colour depend on its type) and each link or relation is a line. At the bottom right are the zoom buttons (Zoom in and Zoom out), the Fit everything button and full screen; pressing a dot opens its entry. Three collapsible panels fine-tune it: Legend, Graph filters and views and Forces. The filters hold entry classes, line types and saved views; one of them can be the "main" view, which opens by itself when you enter.
The GM can press Edit the graph. With Move points they place the dots where they like and with Connect two entries they drag from one entry to another to relate them. Right-clicking the empty space creates an entry or a loose note at that point; on an entry, it offers to see only its surroundings at one, two or three hops.
The timeline and the clock
Manage › Timeline opens a full-screen window with the calendar of your world. At the top is the World clock: today's date and time, and the Pass the time buttons (+10 min, +1 h, Short rest, Long rest, +1 day, +1 week, or an exact amount or time).
The Calendar button sets up months and their days, the week, hours per day, era suffix and a starting template; there is even one for the Harptos calendar. You can have several lines (New timeline) and, on each one, New event: an event with a date, or an era between two dates, with a description, a colour and, if you like, a linked World entry. It is shown as a List or as an Axis, with filters by time (Past, Now, Upcoming), and you can check what the players see with "View as players".
Managing, publishing and importing
The Manage menu holds what you configure once for the whole world: Custom categories (your own entry types, with icon and template), Templates (the skeleton of a new entry), Relationship types and NPC statuses (the status they carry in play). It also groups NPC groups, Public wiki, Export the world (.zip) and a window to import from Obsidian, LegendKeeper or Notion ("Import from Obsidian, LegendKeeper…"). Imported content arrives hidden from the group until you publish it.
The public wiki is published with a link that anyone can open; it shows what a player would see. You can protect it with a password (at least four characters), change the link —the old one stops working— or take it down.
Options
| Option | What it does | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| View | How the same entries are shown | Entries, Table or Graph; the last one is remembered on this device | Entries |
| Who sees it | Who reads the entry | Everyone, GM only or Choose (teams and players) | GM only |
| Pin to the top | Keeps the entry first in the list | Yes or no | No |
| Columns | Columns of the table view | Name, type, folder, tags, role, connections, visibility (GM only), last edited and created | All except role and created |
| Images | How entry images are laid out | Layout, size and crop; each entry can set its own. Saved on this device | Automatic layout, medium size and automatic crop |
Tips
Tip. Write first and link later: a
[[link]]to an entry that does not exist yet stays dimmed, and lights up by itself when you create it with that title.
Careful. Removing a folder deletes every entry it contains. The notice carries Undo, but move whatever you want to keep first.
- Keep an NPC's game sheet (statblock, linked sheet and token) in the For play section of its own entry: that way the NPC lives in a single place.
- Use the The group tab of the preview before publishing an entry with secrets.
Known limits
- Maps and images appear as entries, but are not created here: they are born in their own section (The world map).
- World folders belong to the World only; the Journal has its own (The campaign journal).
Common problems
"My players cannot see an entry." Check Who sees it: new entries start as GM only. In the table view, the visibility column tells you at a glance.
"I cannot find the text view." It is no longer a separate view: when you open an entry it is read full width, with the index on one side.
"The [[…]] link is dimmed." No entry has that title or that alternative name. Check the spelling or create the entry.
See also
The world map, The campaign journal, The campaign: rooms and sections, Loot and containers, Right-click, ⋯ and Undo, The command palette (Ctrl K).