Keeping secrets

To avoid your players figuring out that the cultists are actually trying to bring back Tiamat to life with a magical ring that is found in a volcano, or that a friendly NPC is actually the BBEG, you’ll want to set up secret information in your Kanka world.

This is achieved on multiple levels.

Private entries

The first way to keep secrets is to have a whole entry private. This option is available when creating or editing an entry, below the entry’s description and tags fields.

Entries that are private only show up to members of the campaign’s admin role.

This also works for elements that links entries together. For example, if a PC’s parent is the BBEG, you can create that relation. As long as the BBEG is private, a player won’t see the relation on their character.

Articles

Instead of keeping whole entries private, you can also have them know about a friendly merchant, but keep information about their past and motivations private by adding articles to them. Articles are texts that are displayed on the entry’s overview page.

Each article can be made visible simply with the visibility option, or with custom permissions on the article.

Find out more on the articles document.

Visibility

Many elements that connect entries together, be it relations, inventory, reminders, timeline elements, etc have a visibility option, which can be used to make that connection secret to other members of the campaign.