Community Suggestion: Cross-World Contents (or Categories?)
Cross-World Contents (or Categories?)
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by SeeleyOne
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share shared cross cross-world
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Many (most?) of us have more than one World. Sometimes there are things that are useful to have in more than one World. For me, I like to have several house rules that I like to use in more than one campaign setting. For now I manage a Word document that I share with people through One Drive, but there are some very useful features of having the rules usable in a web format. For one thing, linking to a single version of the same articale would be really great for the same reasons that good software tends to be modular (fix it for everything in one place). Also, there is presentation. The options that World Anvil provides to dispaly and organize data are really, really useful.How does this feature request address the current situation?
It would allow for there to be categories that can be shared by the different Worlds that the owner has. While my personal use is probably going to be house rules, I can think of many other applications like statblocks and mosters, magic items, etc. that could be used in multiple campaign settings. For example, I could have a Rifts setting (World) easily use things from other campaign settings (Worlds).What are other uses for this feature request?
Any articles or similar content that can be used for more than one campaign setting is valid. I am thinking that it would really be that categories might be the way to go. Something that might be of concern is the privacy for subscribers of the worlds. I guess it would have to be set to allow for users of each of the worlds to be able to see stuff.Follow up
The Hyperion thing will probably work for what I am asking for. However, but it depends on how that really works. Especially for game system stuff. Can you retroactively connect worlds? Or do you have to know that world X should belong to world Z when you create them? You do not always know that you will want to reuse something in another world. For example, you might have a fantasy world and then three years later you find out that you want to tie it to another campaign. This sort of thing happens a lot in cross-dimensional settings. It is much easier if you can just point to that world instead of having to re-add the articles. Also, if I want to edit something, it is better if I edit it once and everywhere that looks at it is effectively updated at the same time.
The Team's Response
I am really sorry but this will not happen.
Current score
32/300 Votes · +6360 points
Votes Cast
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+200
by KrumelWahnsinn
on 2021-12-12 22:59As I am trying to creat a multivers it would be helpful to be able to make some articles acsesseble to other of my Worlds. I think it would be preferable to put that under Navigation
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+200
by cc7799
on 2021-12-12 06:47 -
+300
by Silverlite_Sword
on 2021-12-12 02:56 -
+200
by Scalenex
on 2021-12-11 03:20 -
+300
by Vixen Windsong
on 2021-12-10 22:55 -
+100
by GiftOfGabby
on 2021-12-10 18:15 -
+300
by A.J.Ponder
on 2021-12-10 08:23Yes, I've been thinking much the same thing. My brain is still tossing up the idea of crossing over a couple of worlds, or having an overarching "my worlds" world. Also be interested to see if the Hyperion thing creates those opportunities. In either case, it's awesome this idea is being considered. :)
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+300
by KyleLemanski
on 2021-12-09 16:09 -
+300
by EliKwake
on 2021-12-08 07:49 -
+20
by Alrost Erkelion.
on 2021-12-07 12:41 -
+10
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+300
by SpecterN7
on 2021-12-04 21:12 -
+300
by Brenpatine
on 2021-12-04 03:22 -
+200
by WhatWhat
on 2021-12-04 02:03 -
+300
by toffepajja
on 2021-12-03 10:09 -
+50
by GunplaGoblin
on 2021-11-30 20:23 -
+300
by TheRaptorJesus
on 2021-11-30 17:25I could actually really use this right now, as I'm trying to create different genre worlds for the same set of rules and many things would crossover and I'd have to end up making 3 copies of the same myth entry.
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+200
by TrialRun!
on 2021-11-30 03:53 -
+100
by zalzabar
on 2021-11-29 13:25 -
+100
by SierraKomodo
on 2021-11-29 03:26I don't personally see myself making use of this outside of my hidden CSS and theme testing articles, but you make what I feel is a valid use case for this so take my coins.
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+300
by Yuna_Nightshade
on 2021-11-27 17:56 -
+300
by Lucifer__oO
on 2021-11-25 17:42 -
+300
by AlexTheNerdBird
on 2021-11-24 23:55 -
+100
by A Fierce Dwarf
on 2021-11-24 23:03 -
+300
by xSpazztic
on 2021-11-24 20:53 -
+100
by Adcheryl
on 2021-11-24 17:22 -
+300
by LadyVann
on 2021-11-24 02:11 -
+300
by DMStretch
on 2021-11-23 06:06 -
+300
by greglbg
on 2021-11-22 22:10 -
-10
by Satrium
on 2021-11-22 09:36There is already Project Hyperion on the roadmap, which will allow to have child worlds, which can share articles from a shared parent world. One intended usecase for this, is to have a rule system in one world, and use that in many others. It's the last thing on the roadmap, so it will take a while till development gets there. (https://blog.worldanvil.com/2021/04/10/world-anvil-roadmap-april-2021-edition/) Other than that, you could use a generic statblock with your rules, and embed that into an article in each of your worlds. This is not quite as clean as what you want, but it will keep your rules central in one place and should be enough until project Hyperion gets implemented
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-10
by Michael Chandra
on 2021-11-22 08:17If you find yourself with content that's fitting many campaigns, why not use a combined world?
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-300
by A Glamorous Kitten
on 2021-11-22 06:59 -
+300
by SeeleyOne
on 2021-11-22 04:57
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