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The Timeline
The timeline is the campaign's history, season by season: Stonetop's own thread and one for each character. Much of it fills itself in as you play (level-ups, deaths, expeditions, kills), and anyone can write their own entries. Every player can read it.
- The Timeline tab on the Stonetop steading sheet shows Stonetop's thread.
- The Timeline tab on each character sheet shows that character's thread (in the Modern sheet layout).
- Open the full timeline on either tab shows every thread together in its own window.
Your GM picks where the timeline appears with the world setting Timeline: Everywhere (the default), Steading sheet only (character sheets lose their tab; the steading's tab and the journal stay) or Off (no tabs, no journal). The system keeps recording in the background whatever they pick.
Each player can also take the tab off their own sheets: untick Timeline Tab on My Sheets on the Preferences tab. The Timeline journal and the full timeline window stay. See Preferences and Accessibility.
The timeline writes these down by itself, in the season they happened:
| Entry | When |
|---|---|
| Level up | A character reaches a new level, naming the move they learned. Levels gained before the timeline existed are filled in too. |
| Death | A death or a fate taken at Death's Door. |
| Lasting wound | A wound that stays. |
| Arcanum | An arcanum is found, worked out or mastered, or a Consequence is marked. |
| Follower | A follower joins. |
| Kills | Foes a character finishes in a fight. |
| Expedition | A trip out and home again, on everyone who went. |
| Site visit | A site marked visited, on everyone who went and on Stonetop. |
| Seasons Change | Each season's roll, gains and costs, on Stonetop's thread. |
| Threat | A threat's grim portent or doom, if the GM chooses to add it. |
Click New Entry (or hover a season and click Add in it). The entry window has:
- When: the season and year it happened;
- Title: a line to remember it by;
- Where: a place name. Drop a place, scene or person here to link it, or just type;
- Details: as much or as little as you like. Drop people, places or creatures into the text to link them;
- Slain, for kills: one foe per line ("Crinwin ×3" counts three);
- Tag: one tag per entry. New tag makes your own, with a colour, shared with the whole table.
Entries can be edited, removed, or moved earlier or later within their season.
- Filter hides threads (Subject) and kinds of entries (Entries) you don't want to see, and the Ages bands.
- Layout switches between Horizontal (along one line, like a slide) and Vertical (down the page, one season under the next).
- The Jump to year slider brings a year to the middle.
- The timeline opens on the current season.
These choices are remembered per browser.
Ages names long stretches of the world's history, like the Time of the Makers or the Current Age, drawn as coloured bands along the timeline for everyone. Give each a name, a first year and a last year (or leave it Still going). The book's Ages are added once for you. Click a band to edit its Age.
Colours chooses the colour each kind of entry wears, for everyone in the world. A colour too pale to read is adjusted.
Years on the timeline follow your campaign's calendar. Naming the current year (Set the Year, from the bar at the top of the screen) moves every recorded year with it, including history from before play. See Seasons, Weather and the Year.
Did you know?
- When the GM ticks a threat's grim portent or doom, they're asked Put this on the timeline? Players only see it if the GM adds it.
- History from before play can be recorded too: an entry with no season, or one sixty years back.
- GMs comfortable with the browser console can open the full timeline with
game.stonetop.openTimeline().