Community Suggestion: Update to Historical Event Article Connections
Update to Historical Event Article Connections
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently for Timelines the article connection has two issues. Each category can only be linked to one article causing some events to only appear to connect to one group, location, or session report and the Related Article field can only connect to generic articles. This causes information to be lost both in the timeline's historical entries and the connecting articles. While part of this could be solved with tagging the historical entries in articles this can cause issues with formatting the Related Historical Events field.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
This feature request would fix the current system by allowing multiple articles to be connected under the current categories similar to how many sidebar prompts work in the built in article templates and by allowing any template, or templates that do not already have connections to events, to be connected under the related article instead of just generic articles. This would allow for a wider connection between articles in a world. Improving worlds with large histories or allowing for easier navigation between historical events in all worlds.
It would help to create clear navigation for objects in a world from creation to major events that they took part in. Game Masters would be able to link session reports to events in their world that took multiple session to resolve. For world builders the feature would allow them to show which events affected multiple species, connecting their culture to the event and its outcomes. Finally, by allowing any article to link under generic articles this would widen the flexibility of the timelines tool.
What are other uses for this feature request?
While this feature will likely have the biggest affect on user who regularly use timelines and have rich world histories the added flexibility may allow for some non standard uses of timelines that did not exist before.
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! This is accepted for future implementation.18/300 Votes · +4801 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by irpguardian
on 2026-06-14 22:14 -
+100
by A Filthy Goblin
on 2026-06-14 19:45 -
+100
by Aia Danuja
on 2026-06-13 01:59 -
+300
by morganarcher
on 2026-06-12 23:13 -
+300
by Shewstone Publishing
on 2026-06-12 12:24 -
+300
by Dragolithic
on 2026-06-11 21:23 -
+100
by A Wild Orc
on 2026-06-09 16:18 -
+300
by D3vilmade
on 2026-06-09 03:01 -
+300
by SrSpaceCadet
on 2026-06-05 01:19 -
+300
by JetpackMonkey
on 2026-06-01 20:25 -
+1
by Mahdi Avendesora
on 2026-05-29 16:15 -
+300
by Elb Tenebris
on 2026-05-29 14:14 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2026-05-26 09:52 -
+300
by Lemmylou
on 2026-05-25 17:02Upvote for the extra connectivity. This will totally allow my world which is very history centric, to better connect with the related articles.
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+300
by Le Ryu des Bannerets
on 2026-05-24 22:54I always wanted to connect historical events to conflicts. And some events simultaneously affect several locations. Your suggestion allows it, at last !
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+300
by FictionFan1995
on 2026-05-24 09:27 -
+300
by DMFW
on 2026-05-23 00:16Yes please. There is something arbitrary about what type of articles can only have one link to an event (e.g. generic articles and locations) and which ones can have more than one (e.g. characters). I find the ability to only attach to one location particularly restricting. For example, where I have an event affecting an entire continent but particularly associated with an individual city, I'd like to link it to both so that it appears in the sidebar for both (just as I could if they were two or more characters). The same is true of buildings and cities. I end up picking the "best" scope but miss not having multiple locations (and/or articles as mentioned in the original post) as the event is really associated with all of them.
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+300
by ss2020
on 2026-05-22 16:34 -
+300
by Owlinthsnow
on 2026-05-22 04:51
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