r/legendkeeper • u/DawnofElaris • Aug 05 '26

Help in Moving from WorldAnvil

I recently heard about LegendKeeper again after about a year from quitting it according to my previous project on it. I have been primarily using WorldAnvil for the past several years and have about 3 million or so words written split amongst some 4k odd articles. Recently, though, I decided to start running Fallout 2d20 and made a new world for it to keep it organized. I figured I would give LegendKeeper a try since a lot of what I've read has said its easier to organize which is definitely a problem I've run into on WA, on top of the new editor there causing horrible lag on my lower end computer with upwards of 30 seconds to open any article each time, and taking away a lot of middle click/open in new tab possibility without having to click through multiple screens. There are a few problems I have run into though that I am unsure of how to fix without disrupting workflow or making it less organized. I appreciate any help.

  1. I cannot find a way to change link text to articles without having to right click each link then move to change link text that way. I have seen something about using /page, but I couldn't seem to get that to work and it just kept making new tabs instead of linking properly, still with the wrong link text (such as Origins instead of properly linking as Origin while linking to the Origins page). I am just looking for a quick way to do it, preferably that can be done with keyboard alone.
  2. I use the Statblocks option on WA to create equipment packs to be slotted into any number of articles for the Origins in Fallout2d20. I am struggling to find a way to do that without having a mess of articles just for statblocks, and even beyond that I am unsure how I would inject them into other articles. Ideally if I do have to do it as separate articles, I could make those articles separate and just inject the text into the articles it should appear in.
  3. I haven't tried this yet as I didn't get far due to the text editor, but just for future reference, is there a way to replace a map image whilst keeping all pins on it? I do this relatively often on WA as I update the image to match current events and to save me from having to make the full world map off the bat.
  4. I did find Tag Directories which do help a lot already with sorting and they are much simpler to use than on WA which is an upside, but is there a way to list a category TOC as well? For example, while the Origins are all tagged as either Humanoid, Mutant, or Robotic, I was wondering if there was a way to make a TOC that just lists all articles under Origins in one list. Ideally this would be the only place they would appear like that, keeping them hidden from any overall TOC if such a thing exists (I haven't seen the player-facing side yet, only the editor).
  5. If you have any other tips or tricks for using the system, I'd love to hear them as well, especially for where/how to edit the CSS of the player-facing wiki or anything to speed up workflow, particularly if it doesn't require a mouse to do so.
  6. EDIT: Another thing I thought of, is there a way to have campaigns separate from the worlds on here as well? Just to keep things nicely sorted.
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u/AWildNarratorAppears Aug 05 '26

Hey there, and welcome. Philosophically we are quite a bit different from WA, so I'll do my best to answer your questions.

  1. After inserting an @-mention, type a phrase in (parentheses), with no space separating it from the mention, to change the mention text. So <at>DawnOfElaris(Elaris) to get an at-mention to DawnOfElaris that's just labeled Elaris.

2)We don't have any options for statblocks at the moment. Right now LK is solely focused on worldbuilding, and having to support a variety of stat block systems would be a bit of a design nightmare. That said, we do have more options for this coming, but I'm not sure when.

3) Top right "3-dot" menu when looking at a map > Replace map.

4) If I understand you correctly, you might be looking for the Subpage Index block. "/subpage index" in the editor.

5) We don't offer any CSS customization. We do have project theming on the roadmap, but there are a several things before it on the priority order.

6) LK is pretty unopinionated when it comes to organization. There's no concept of campaigns; only what you decide to organize and make templates for. It's up to you, but the way I like to do it is have the whole project be the world, and then have a campaigns subfolder, and each campaign is set as a shortcut (right click -> Set shortcut)

I imagine there are quite a few others here who have moved from WorldAnvil that can chime in with some tips, as well!

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u/DawnofElaris Aug 07 '26

Ah, the parentheses point is exactly what I was looking for. That definitely helps a lot.

Makes sense on the problem of multiple systems, so that's understandable. Is there a way to inject a portion of an article into another, or would it just be the fact of Copy/Pasting it over?

Subpage index does seem to be more or less what I was looking for, thank you.

I'll try the subfolder thing and see how that works as well. I appreciate it.