Beginner using books for homebrew adventure (Issues faced)

[Gaucherius]

Hi there!

I am starting to make my own adventures and have so far been using simple story pages. I now want to make a book for my adventure. I understand that the book function needs advanced pages to work, but is there a way to quickly drag in a simple page into a new text box, or do we have to select, then copy & paste every page accross?

My second question is, what is the role of simple story entries now we have the book option available?

Hope this makes sense and thanks in Advance.

[Mike Serfass]

You'll have to arduously cut and paste everything.
Simple stories are now for backwards compatibility. There are too many products, many abandoned, to reformat.
You could use simple stories for campaign-level notes specific to a group as they play through the campaign. The formatting makes it nicer for that than basic notes.

[superteddy57]

I like to use basic (simple) story entries for table pop outs. Any story record can be created outside of the book and drag and dropped to where you want it in the index.

[claedawg]

I think there is a button on the top right of story that copies the contents of that story. You can then click on the paste button after you create a page in the Book to transfer that information. Slightly easier than the common way to copy\paste.

[LordEntrails]

Just drag and drop the basic story entry into your campaign book under a sub chapter. Easy Peasy.
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[Zacchaeus]

I think there is a button on the top right of story that copies the contents of that story. You can then click on the paste button after you create a page in the Book to transfer that information. Slightly easier than the common way to copy\paste.

This only exists in advanced stories. LE's solution above is the best method.

[Gaucherius]

Thanks everyone:)

[claedawg]

This only exists in advanced stories. LE's solution above is the best method.

I was wrong about which side the copy button was on the Story cards. It is on the top left. You can see it in LordEntrail's image.
In the Book that button (along with a Paste button if you have already copied something, is on the top right (next to the page name).

[Zacchaeus]

I was wrong about which side the copy button was on the Story cards. It is on the top left. You can see it in LordEntrail's image.
In the Book that button (along with a Paste button if you have already copied something, is on the top right (next to the page name).

Whilst I don't really want to labour the point here's a graphic of a simple and an advanced story side-by-side. Both have the icon you are referring to (highlighted by a square) on the top left. This icon allows you to quickly duplicate the entry whether simple or advanced, it has no copy/past function; it simply copies the whole simple or advanced story. The icon highlighted with a circle on the advanced story entry allows you to copy the contents of the advanced story and then paste that into another advanced story. There is no equivalent button on simple stories.