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Templates

Purpose

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Give the installation a ready-made game world to start from — or move your own game world to another installation.

A template is one zip file with the game-world modules (on/off), settings, terms, counters, custom fields and all rules (races, abilities, professions …). It never contains players, characters or other personal data.

Before you start

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  • Only an administrator can use the page (permission templates.manage).
  • Load the template before the organisers start creating abilities and characters — then you have the least to change afterwards.

The bundled templates

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Template For Contents
One-shot standard A single event Characters made by the organisers: life points and armour, six abilities that the organisers assign, no EP economy
Simple campaign (Simpel kampagne) A campaign over several events EP, three professions with three levels, nine general abilities and check-out after each event

Both are genre-neutral. The words (for example Life points, Ability, EP, Profession, Coin) are changed afterwards under Game world → Terms (Spilverden → Begreber).

The Templates page with the bundled templates

Steps

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Load a template

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  1. Go to Game world → Templates (Spilverden → Skabeloner), tab Import.
  2. Choose Preview next to a bundled template — or upload a zip under Upload a template.
  3. The preview shows what is added, changed and archived. Choose:
    • Add and update: adds and changes what the template mentions; everything else stays.
    • Replace: makes the game world match the template; whatever the template does not have is archived.
  4. Choose Import. With Replace you type the template’s name to confirm. The import runs as one: either all of it succeeds, or nothing changes.

Content is archived, never deleted.

Export your game world

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  1. Tab Export: choose the areas, and whether files (images, PDFs) are included.
  2. Download the zip file. It can be loaded on another installation.

The History tab shows earlier exports and imports.

Common mistakes

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  • “Replace” removed something we used. It is archived, not deleted. Load your own export again, or bring it back from the archive.
  • The zip file is rejected. It is too large (by default at most 100 MB), not made by LV-Database, or made on a newer version of LV-Database than your installation runs.
  • “Fix the blocking warnings”. The preview found something that must be fixed first; the warnings say what.
  • “The preview is out of date”. Someone changed the game world in the meantime. Choose Preview again.
  • The words do not fit your game. Change them under Terms; the template’s words are only a starting point.
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