Overview

The story book is the place where GMs can store adventure or story information for their campaign.

Story Topics

• Story Management: Story entries can be quickly added, opened, renamed, and removed.
• Story Editing: Once a story entry exists, the GM can use the formatted story area to enter campaign, adventure or story information that he wants to track.
• Story Sharing: Once a story entry contains text, that information can be shared with the players during a session.

Creating a story entry

Open the campaign Story list using the shortcut on the tabletop.

Click the "New" icon at the bottom of the campaign entry list.

A new story entry will be created in the currently active category and opened for editing.

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Open the campaign Story list.

Invoke the radial menu on the list area, and select "Create Item".

A new story entry will be created in the currently active category and opened for editing.

Opening a story entry

Open the campaign Story list.

Click on the label or shortcut icon of the campaign entry to open the sheet in its default location.

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Open the campaign Story list.

Drag the shortcut icon onto the desktop to open it at that position.

Renaming a story entry

Open the campaign Story list.

Hover the mouse over an entry in the list, underlining the label.

Invoke the radial menu, and select "Edit".

Type in or modify the label text. Press esc or click outside the label to complete the operation.

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Open the campaign Story list.

Open the desired story entry.

Click in the "Title" field for this story entry.

Type in or modify the field. Press Esc or click outside the label to complete the operation.

Deleting a story entry

Open the campaign Story list.

Invoke the radial menu on the target story entry, and select "Delete Item".

The story entry will be deleted.

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Open the campaign Story list.

Open the desired story entry.

Invoke the radial menu of the story sheet, and select "Delete Record".

In the submenu, select "Confirm Delete".

The sheet will be closed and the item deleted.

Entering story data

Once you have opened a campaign story entry, you can then enter your story data to be used during your campaign.

Open the desired story entry.

Click on the story entry label, and enter the label you want this entry to appear under.

Click on the formatted story area, and enter the text you want to keep in this story entry. For advanced editing options, see the next guide entry.

Advanced story editing

Since the formatted story area of a campaign story entry is a special type of formatted text field. There are a wide variety of formatting options that you can apply to the text in the story entry.

Paragraph Formatting

By default, any text entered into a story entry is considered "Body Text" format. To change format of a paragraph of text, open the radial menu, and select the "Paragraph Types" menu option. From there, select the format option you desire to use. That format will be applied to the entire paragraph.

• Chat Frame: Draws a rectangular box around the paragraph for text you want to quickly drag and drop to chat window. Typically used for story descriptions and spoken dialog that will be shared with players.
• Body Text: Enters normal body text mode. This is the default format mode.
• Heading: Enters heading text mode. The font used for heading text is slightly larger than the body text.
• List: Enters list mode. The text will shown with a small leading bullet, and the text will be indented.
• Link: Enters link mode. The text will shown with a small reference link box, and the text will be indented. Window reference links from anywhere within FG can be dropped on the link box. Typically, used to link to other campaign entries relevant to the story, such as NPCs, items, etc.

Font Styles

Font styles can also be applied to text in the story formatted text area. Select the text that you want to style, and then press the shortcut keys for the style you want to apply. Font style can only be changed by selecting text and applying the style in this manner.

• Bold = CONTROL + B
• Italic = CONTROL + I
• Underline = CONTROL + U

Sharing story data

Open the sheet for the campaign story entry.

Drag any text in a chat frame from the formatted text area.

Drop the chat frame text on the chat window.

The chat frame text will be displayed to all players.

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Open the sheet for the campaign story entry.

Right-click on the story sheet to open the radial menu.

Select the "Share Sheet" menu option.

The entire story sheet will be displayed on all players.

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Drag the story reference link from the campaign story entry list, or a story sheet.

Drop the reference link on a player portrait.

The entire story sheet will be displayed to that player only.