Hey there, is it possible to change the gameplay thread for an existing campaign? I seem to remember doing this for the discussion tabs somehow, but would like to for the the gameplay tab.
I guess it depends on how you want to change it? But it would need to be a Paizo forum admin, so I suggest sending Paizo support an email.
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I just meant unlinking it from the campaign and replacing it with a fresh gameplay thread. Thanks.
The Discussion and Recruitment tabs can be unset from Game Info, but not the Gameplay one.
The Discussion and Recruitment tabs can be unset from Game Info, but not the Gameplay one.
Yes, this is the case. But Why?? Why not allow a series of game play threads with links to older threads? My group travels from plane to plane, and it would be nice to have each plane be a separate thread (with links to all the older ones naturally).
It's kind of funny that, not knowing that I would stuck with it indefinitely, began my campaign by naming my game play thread "Arrival at the city of Ovium (Chapter 1)". Two and a half years later, things have moved on but the name remains the same (it's not even terrible since I'd be stuck with whatever but still).
But Why??
I believe it is because the Campaign is technically built around the Gameplay thread (you create the campaign by first creating a Gameplay thread). They could have decoupled the campaign from the thread, but it would have involved investing time in developing some campaign creation menus, etc, and probably it has other implications they thought back on its day.
It is actually nice to have all the campaign in the same thread, the number of posts help you have a measure of how mature the campaign is. I sometimes also like to rank the Gameplay threads by number of posts to see which have been the more active (and often completed) campaigns out there. If you could change the gameplay thread it would be also more difficult to figure out when the Campaign started.
What I do like to do with my campaigns is to curate in Campaign Info tab a list of links to the start of different chapters (planes in the case of your campaign), and also edit the Campaign info to include in the subtitle the number and name of the current chapter the players are in (you can also change the name of the campaign, but I do not like that, that is the name of your campaign, not the current section, plus it can involve problems with crawlers indexing wrongly your campaign pages, or give the impression to a reader you are only running a specific part).