The Vocabularies section holds the words your world uses for jobs, traits and abilities, each with a one-line meaning. They are suggestions and nothing more, and a world with none is valid.

What it is for

An occupation, a trait and an ability are words on a character's card, such as innkeeper, plain-spoken and brewing. Vocabularies lets your world name the words it likes and say in one line what each one means.

The section's own sentence is plain about it: They are suggestions and nothing more. A character may name a word that is on none of these lists, and that is a valid world. Nothing here refuses anything.

Two places use the words:

• Studio offers them on a character's card. On the Occupation and traits tab, the Occupation box suggests your occupations, and your traits and abilities appear as suggestion chips.
• The dialog a player starts a session from tells them when a word they wrote is not one this world knows. It tells them and lets them go on.

What is in it

The list on the left has three groups: Occupations, Traits and Abilities. Each has its own button: Add an occupation, Add a trait and Add an ability. The Find box narrows the lists by a word or by what it means. Until you choose a word, the right side says No word is open.

Choose a word and its form opens:

• Word: The word itself. It saves when you leave the box or press Enter. A word is your own language, so it can hold spaces.
• Means: What the word means in your world, in one line.
• Remove: Takes the word out of the list.

A word you add starts as new word, with a meaning you replace. A list holds at most 200 words, a word can be up to 80 characters, and a meaning up to 200.

Below the lists is Inherited vocabulary. It is read only. A ruleset the world pins knows these words, so your world knows them too.

In Saltmere

The Fantasy template gives Saltmere seven words.

• Occupations: innkeeper, miller and woodward.
• Traits: plain-spoken and close-handed.
• Abilities: brewing and poaching.

Wren Hollis is the lighthouse keeper, and that job is not on the list. To add it, choose Add an occupation. Type lighthouse keeper in Word, and Keeps the cliff light turning and knows every boat by its lamp. in Means. Then open Wren's card, as The Characters and things section shows. On the Occupation and traits tab, the Occupation box suggests lighthouse keeper.

When to open it

Add words once you have characters who share jobs and traits, so that each card can pick from the same names. A world with no words is valid, and a card can say any word it likes.

Most worlds never need to open Vocabularies: the template's seven words are enough to start, and a first world can be finished without it.