Creating and editing Rules

The Rules Creation Tool allows you to easily create a set of Rules, then edit them to make them easy to read and understand.

Basics

Above you can see the actual body of the rule in the editor. The body of the rule is constructed from one or more modules, depending on the amount of information required.

Each rule should describe a single concept or action to the player. This makes the rules more friendly when people are looking for a specific piece of information about your game.

If you are discussing about more than one topics in the rule, such as in the example above, it’s highly recommended to use separate text modules for each. It will help with the search & FAQ functions when players want to pinpoint their search queries to the rules.

There will be times when two or more concepts will be very closely related, either in explaining a concept fully or pointing out an exception to the player. These are the so called “Related Rules” and they’ll be explained later.

Creating Rules

Using the Add Rule button, you can quickly add as many Rules as you need. From the list below, you can directly edit the new rules’ name and icon.

Add a new Rule

Active filter

Filter rules by typing any string of characters

Click on a the icon to change it

Click on the Pen icon to edit a rule’s title

Click on the Wrench icon or double-click on a Rule to edit the content of a rule

Click on the Trashcan icon to delete a rule

Click on the leftmost arrow (or anywhere on the Rule) to display the current content of a rule (including Related Rules and Questions)

Just drag and drop Rules to change the order they will be shown in the app

Editing a Rule

After adding a rule, you can open and modify if by double-tapping it or by clicking the wrench icon.

You’ll enter the rule editor view you can see below.

Click on the icon to change it. You can do this in the Main View as well (see above).

Edit the title of the rule directly in the Title bar

Add or remove categories (a rule can be under more than one categories if needed).

Discard any changes and go back to the Rules list

Close the Rule editor and go back to the Rules list. Note, this doesn’t save the project. So click save draft in the main view!

Drag and drop layouts from this box to the content zone on the left

1) Text

2) Text with an image on the left side

3) Text with an image on the right side

4) Image (see Graphical Assets page for specifications)

5) If you want to include an example or a quote inside the rule, you can use this.

6) Add a YouTube video

Drag the Rule Module to a new position

Format texts with Heading Styles, Bold, Italics or Underlining

Insert a Spoiler text, that the user has to click to reveal it

Insert inline images (see Graphical Assets page for specifications). You can use these same graphics for concepts, items, or symbols, etc. as you may have done in your printed rulebook

Alter the width of the image/video

● If you copy paste the text from a different editor, remember to check that there’s no extra line breaks in the text after you close / save the rule.

● Concentrate on creating the Rules first, don’t worry about images for now. If you want, you can put the empty image modules to right places though.