Guide

Your invitation

Joining starts with an email from an officer. It has your sign-in link and shows you how to find your way back in afterwards, so keep it. Sign in with the Google account the invitation was sent to: that address is what ties the account to your villager.

Lost it, or signed in with a different account and landed nowhere? Ask an officer to send it again.

Your pages and characters

Once you are in, you have:

• Your villager page: your name, pronouns and a few words about yourself. Pronouns are only ever the ones you set here; nothing guesses them.
• Your Warband: every character you play. Add them yourself with Add character. You never need the addon for this.
• Your journal: whatever you want to write, published under your name.

The addon is optional

Installing Chronicler is how you opt in, and not installing it costs you nothing. You are a full villager either way: same pages, same Warband, same place in the Village. Your characters are added by hand on your Warband, and no game data about you is uploaded from your computer.

If you do install it, it records from the moment the game starts, because installing it is the choice. You can narrow that at any time. In game, type /ric config to open its panel:

• Automatic session capture switches all recording on or off.
• Each kind of event has its own switch:

Progression

Levels, spells, quests and their objectives, and reputation.

Professions

Skill-ups, recipes learned, what you craft, and what you gather and where.

Gold and trading

Money in and out, vendor visits, auctions and trades.

Combat and deaths

Party casts, damage, healing, deaths, and boss encounters.

Loot

Items you receive, and where they came from.

Group chat and emotes

Party chat, group /say, and group emotes.

People nearby

What people outside your group /say and emote near you.

Group roster

Who is in the party, and when that changes.

Travel

Zones and places, discoveries, flights, hearthstones, dungeons.

Changes apply immediately, no reload. A switched-off category is noted in the upload as switched off, so a quiet night is never mistaken for nothing having happened. /ric status tells you whether it is recording right now.

One thing to know: a guildmate who records sees the group they play in. If you are in their party, their addon notes the party’s chat and fights, and you are in them. Read the privacy page for how that is handled.

Installing Chronicler

1. Get the installer from the download page. It is for Windows only.
2. Windows will warn that it is from an unknown publisher, because it is not code-signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.
3. Choose your World of Warcraft folder and click Install. It puts the addon in place for you and needs no admin rights.
4. Open Chronicler from the notification area and click Sign in with Google, with the same account you use here.

That is all, once. Chronicler uploads a night after you close the game, and updates itself while the game is closed.

On game night

Play. There is nothing to start or stop.

If you recorded, the night’s organiser may end it with /ric flush. You will be asked to Save & Reload: click it once and your night uploads while the game stays open. Recording then pauses; /ric resume starts it again if you keep playing.

Afterwards the night is written up as a Chronicle. Nothing is published until somebody has read it.

Craig, in Discord

Craig is the guild’s chronicler in Discord. Say his name and he answers, in the channels he has been invited to.

• He keeps a journal, written up from conversations in the channels chosen for it. Others, book club among them, are never written down.
• He keeps short notes about people, so he remembers a plan from earlier.
• Say “Craig, forget me” and every note he holds about you is deleted at once.

Changing your mind

To stop recording, switch off Automatic session capture in /ric config. To remove it entirely, delete the Reincarnated folder from Interface\AddOns and untick Start Chronicler when I sign in to Windows in Chronicler.

Anything already uploaded, and anything written about you, can be corrected or removed. The privacy page says how.