Setup & Use Lore

Lore wraps your campaign in a narrative — so the content feels like an adventure instead of a worksheet. A Lore holds three things: the kingdom (its name and its sovereign), the cosmic Force that runs through it (a name plus two opposed aspects), and the cast — a party of six companions. A Lore template is reusable: apply it to a campaign and a copy is embedded into that campaign, with a link back to the original so you can edit or replace it later.

Build a Lore template

1. Open the Lore library (admin)

   System admins open the standalone manager from the navigation drawer’s Lore entry — the Manage Lore dialog lists your templates (with a pinned RPGLMS Default entry always at the top), each with Edit/Delete, plus a Create New Lore button. An empty library shows “No Lore yet…”.

   Capture pendingThe Manage Lore dialog listing template cards, the pinned RPGLMS Default badge, and the Create New Lore button1440 × 900 · 16:10

2. Create new Lore

   Tap Create New Lore. The button is worded identically in both places — the standalone Manage Lore dialog and the campaign-side picker — so there’s no separate campaign-flow label to learn.

   Authoring is Guided only: an inline mad-lib composes the Lore from single-word blanks, first for the kingdom and Force as one untitled opening passage, then for The Party — the six companions, each with its own set of typed blanks. Tap any highlighted word to change it. There’s no fill-it-for-me shortcut; every blank ships with a sensible default, so a Lore is already valid the moment you open it and you only edit what you care about.

   

   Where the Custom mode went

   A freeform Custom authoring mode exists in the code but is compiled off (ALLOW_CUSTOM_AUTHORING, default false), so the Guided/Custom toggle simply doesn’t render — you’ll see the The Lore header and go straight into the blanks. Nothing is missing from your build; guided is the intended path for now.

3. Save the Lore

   Save. It joins your Lore library and becomes selectable whenever you create or edit a campaign.

Apply Lore to a campaign

1. Attach Lore from the campaign sheet

   In a campaign’s edit sheet, open the Lore section. While creating a campaign it shows a No Lore yet card with a Link or create Lore button; on an existing campaign with nothing linked you instead get Link or build Lore, next to Use RPGLMS Default when a default is available.

   The picker is titled Select Lore when creating a campaign (no campaign ID yet) or Connect Lore when editing an existing one. Either way it lists My Library and Shared in your Houses templates, plus a pinned RPGLMS Default entry — choose one and tap Select / Connect.

   

2. Edit or replace later

   On a linked campaign, the Lore card’s ⋮ menu offers exactly two actions: Edit Lore opens the Lore editor, and Replace Lore reopens the Connect Lore picker so you can swap in a different template. Replacing takes effect as soon as you confirm in the picker — there is no separate confirmation dialog.

   No template sync

   Once a campaign has Lore, it does not track later edits to the template it came from — the older “Sync from Template” action and its staleness indicator were removed with no direct replacement. To pull in template changes, use Replace Lore and reselect it.