First, thanks for the software!
Now to my question: I have characters and things and items, etc. I’m trying to use the database features of Papyrus. It’s a bit confusing, though.
First, I have like a long name in a language that I don’t want to type out whenever I use it. Can I double click or something to have that field from a character or item sheet be entered into my document? Or even set up some sort of quick text entries to save myself some typing?
Second: how can I handle duplicate names or items? Let’s say two characters have the same nickname, but they show up in different parts of my story. “Junior” is found in chapters 1-7, say, before he dies heroically. Later on, another “Junior” shows up. How can I use the character sheets to handle this situation? Same with items that might have a “common name.” For an example, Bilbo’s sword from the Hobbit is named “Sting.” But if he had had a scene being chased by bees, “Sting” would be used, and not refer to the sword.
Third: How should I handle changes in a character? My story starts with my heroine age 17, let’s say, and then she has a birthday party and is now 18 for the last half of the book. How should the character sheet handle something like that? Or other items that change: the “magic word” to open the chest changes after the wizard respells it or something.
I’m hopeful I’m just missing something easy that answers these questions. Thanks in advance!
You can have multiple names for one character sheet, just separate them with a comma, for example “John, John Junior, Jonathan”. Papyrus will recognize all of them as the same character.
