Property Kits
Property kits are a complicated beast. When using properties on your locations, you might be re-creating the same properties over an over. You could create a location archetypes, or use property kits.
While this video uses a very old interface, the concepts still hold true to this day.
Setting up a property kit
Say you’re constantly adding the following properties to your cities.
Population
Wealth
Crime
Doing so each time you’re adding a city is tedious, so let’s make this process a lot easier, especially as you end up tracking more properties.
In your campaign sidebar, click on Property kits at the bottom of it, and on the + Property Kit button at the top right to create a new property kit.
Fields
Property kits have the following fields.
Name: The name of the new entry, in our example, let’s call this one City.
Parent property kit: For your own organisation, you can nest property kits. If you end up with multiple templates focused on locations and multiple on characters, you might create a parent property kit for that.
Category: If kit, newly created entries of that category will automatically have the properties of this template added to them. For example, if all of your Journals have a “levelled up” property, you can automate this process for new journals. In our example, let’s leave this field empty.
Next up, fill out the Properties tab with our 3 example properties from above. Save the property kit and head on to the next step.
Applying a property kit
With the property kit created, it’s time to test it out. Go to your campaign’s locations, and create a start creating a new one.
In the new location’s Properties tab, click on the Property Kit option to list your campaign’s property kits. This list also includes character sheets from the plugins library. Select our example City property kit.
This does not add the new properties yet, as property kits are only applied when the entry is being saved. Save your new location, and you should see it’s properties going to the new location’s properties subpage.
Resyncing properties from a property kit
When you add a new or change and existing property to a template, it does not automatically change on all entries that have the property kit applied. You need to manually re-apply the kit. Luckily, you can do this with the bulk features.
Nested kits
We previously left the parent field empty. However, this can be incredibly useful to organise your property kits.
Let’s say you have a property kit called City, which has some properties, and itself has two other property kits. When you apply City to an entry, it will add properties from City and the children property kits.
Category
Setting the category field will automatically apply the property kit to new entries. Note that this only works when creating an description with the form. This does not work with the quick creator or new mentions.