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Event comments

Every event in the inspector has a Comments section below the cause-effect chain. Comments are free-text, support markdown, and are the place to capture the conversational layer of campaign planning that isn’t quite “lore” and shouldn’t go in the GM notes. Inspector comments section with a GM-only and a world comment

When to use a comment vs GM notes

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The GM notes are the definitive GM-side record of an event — what “actually happened” from the GM’s perspective.

Comments are for the commentary around it: should this NPC show up here? Did we already foreshadow this in session 4? Player Y asked me a sharp question about this last night, here’s how I want to handle it next time.

Two GMs co-running a campaign have a much easier time with comments than via Discord because the discussion lives next to the event it’s about.

Visibility

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Each comment has a visibility:

  • Visible to world (default) — anyone with world access (editors, viewers, and public-link readers, as long as the event itself isn’t GM only) can read it.
  • GM only — editors / world owner only. Shows with an amber border so you know at a glance which threads are private.

Editors can post either kind. Viewers can only post world-visible comments.

You can change a comment’s visibility after posting via the inline Edit button.

Editing and deleting

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  • Authors can edit / delete their own comments at any time. The edited timestamp shows alongside the original date.
  • World editors can delete any comment (handy when a viewer posts spam). Editors can NOT edit other people’s comments — only delete.
  • Deleting a comment hides it but keeps a copy behind the scenes. There’s no “trash” view in the app today, but a deleted comment can still be recovered if needed.

Markdown

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Comment bodies render through the same MarkdownLite renderer the inspector uses for event body / GM notes. Supports:

  • **bold**, *italic*, ~~strikethrough~~
  • # heading, ## heading (downscaled — comments aren’t documents)
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • inline code, code blocks
  • > blockquotes
  • [link](https://…) (opens in a new tab)

Threading

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Threaded replies aren’t available yet — comments show flat, sorted by when they were posted. To reply, write a new comment that references the previous one by quoting or @-mentioning (there’s no @-name autocomplete yet).

Reply UI is on the polish list.

Live updates

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If two GMs have the same event open in different browsers, posting a comment in one shows up for the other almost instantly — no refresh needed.

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