Create a Campaign → Path → Node

RPGLMS content is a tree: a Campaign holds Paths, each path holds Nodes, and each node carries three content sections. Any authenticated user — including Free — can create campaigns and author this tree by hand; only AI generation requires an upgrade.

Create the campaign

1. Open My Campaigns and start a new one

   Go to My Campaigns and tap New (top header) — or Create Campaign from the empty state (“No Campaigns Yet”).

   Capture pendingThe My Campaigns list with the New button, and the empty-state Create Campaign button1440 × 900 · 16:10

2. Choose how to build it

   New does not open the form directly — it offers a choice first:

   • Build it myself — set up the campaign and add paths and lessons yourself. The wizard is still there whenever you want it.
   • Build it with the wizard — answer a few questions about what you are teaching, and the wizard proposes a curriculum sized to the concept for you to review before anything is written.

   Everything below follows Build it myself. For the other route, see Build a whole campaign with AI.

   

3. Fill the campaign form

   The required field is the Framing Concept (the campaign’s core idea; it stands in as the title if you leave Title blank). Add a Title, Description, Subject, Audience, the Ready to Play toggle (whether students can see it), Vocabulary, House linking, and management settings. Further down, the sheet also has larger Lore (see Setup & Use Lore) and Quest sections. You can also add a first party here.

   Expand the quest-type row to reach the Quest — the campaign narrative itself, separate from the reusable Lore: pick a quest type from four cards — Cursed Realm, Forbidden Secrets, Treasure Islands, or Perilous Expedition — then set the emotional tone and build the campaign Boss as a character mad-lib. The quest type quietly determines the campaign’s story structure, so two campaigns sharing one Lore can still play very differently.

   

4. Set the story

   Scroll on and the sheet reaches The story — “The Lore it is set in, the Quest it tells, and the opening your students read.” Lore, quest type, Boss, Vocabulary and the Ready to Play toggle all live here as expandable rows, so tap a row to open it rather than looking for them as separate sections.

   A new campaign starts on the built-in Lore (badged RPGLMS Default) — you can link or create your own instead, which is what Setup & Use Lore covers.

   

5. Save

   Save the campaign and you go straight into the Builder (app-bar title “Builder”). No House is created for you. A campaign does not need one — you own it outright. A House is governance: it decides who ELSE may edit your campaign, so you only get one by creating it deliberately or accepting an invite. See Create a House.

The builder

Saving drops you on the Builder — the campaign’s whole structure on one canvas. Above the divider are the resources the whole campaign shares: Parties, Vocabulary, Sources, and the Lore row, whose Realm, Force and Cast are the story tokens you can bind into any passage. Below the divider, Paths lists the chapters, each with its mob and node count.

Every row expands in place, so you can work down from the campaign to a single node without leaving the page — that is the order the rest of this guide follows.

Add a path

1. Add a Path from the builder canvas

   On the Paths divider row, tap the + Add control. The Create Path sheet opens.

2. Fill the path form

   The required field is the Guiding Question — it’s the path’s headline in both the builder and the student view. Below it, a single section headed This Path’s Story composes the path’s region, boss/mob, and story together as one three-paragraph, fill-in-the-blank passage. Its subtitle spells out the contract: one word per blank, tap a highlighted word to change it, and the passage becomes the description your students read. There’s no separate Description field or two-stage boss/mob picker anymore — this passage text is the path’s Description. You can still set an optional Prerequisite path.

   Under the Guiding Question sit four story token pickers — character, place, force, and vocabulary. Connecting a token binds a name rather than typing one: it resolves into the prose wherever it appears and renders highlighted, so renaming a character once updates every passage that references it.

   

Add a node and its content

1. Open the path to see its nodes

   Expanding a path swaps its summary for a Nodes list. Each node carries its Published state and three count chips — Investigations, Reports and Questions, in that order — so you can see which nodes still need work.

   

2. Add a Node to the path

   Expand the path and tap Add Node in the Nodes section header (or use the path’s ⋮ menu). The Create Node sheet opens.

3. Fill the node form

   The required field is the Learning Objective — it becomes the node’s title. Optionally set a Prerequisite, a Due Date (Optional), and a published toggle (drip-feed nodes by publishing them when you’re ready).

4. Author the three content sections

   Open the node to reveal its three inline sections: Investigations, Reports, and Questions, each with its own + Add control and empty state. Tapping a section’s add opens the matching editor.