l5rx-chiaroscuro/wiki/users/custom-compendiums.md

Compendiums

Never directly edit the system compendiums. They will be erased anytime you update the system.

The best option to keep the links between items and properties, for example, is to fill out a custom compendium using Babele. This will prevent changes you make to system compendiums from being overridden by game system updates.

Using the Custom Compendiums Maker (recommended)

Here is a quick guide to fill the compendiums with Custom Compendium Maker.

1. Go to the Custom Compendiums Maker Website
2. Download the template file :

3. Open the template file with any software that can modify an Excel sheet (.xlsx).
4. Check instruction on Infos sheet.
5. Go into the Configuration sheet, and changes the values in the Values column.
   If your language is English you'll probably only need to change the Author value.

6. Add the various descriptions on all sheets.
   Here an example on the Techniques sheet :

7. Make sure you save the file often!
8. When it's done, visit the website again and follow the instructions:

9. Download the generated archive file.

10. Extract it in your FoundryVTT modules directory.

11. Open FoundryVTT and load an L5R5e World.
12. Make sure to have all these modules enabled:
    • Babele
    • L5R5e Custom Compendiums
    • LibWrapper

13. Open an item you know you had added a description to see the result:

14. Done, have a good time playing L5R!

Using the Custom Compendiums Module

You will need to manually download the following module and edit json files. Please follow the instructions on :

https://gitlab.com/teaml5r/l5r5e-custom-compendiums