Hello all,
Had an idea and wnated to see if any one else thought it might help them out.
Sales folks have programs that allow them to track not just a customers data, but other things to remind and help them form a more personal bond, hobbies, Spouses's name, how long married ect.
I was looking at putting a DB together for gamers, GM mostly, that used something like that.
It would have all the Stat blocks, but also track Faction of this NPC angainst the enities of your world and the PCs.
All the quirks and dislikes a pic or 2, but mostly how they feel towards each PC, tracking interactions and reminding the GM, of all this in a easy to read format.
Including (hopefully), a ZUI, (Zoomable User Interface)
So when you bring up the NPC or PC, all the data is there, and a flow chart looking connections chart is viewable as well, the boxes would by color or shape show the overall +/- of Faction towards that person or group, how close the two boxes would show, how long ago the Interaction took place, the color of the line would show if it was a +/- Interaction, with other colors for special things.
This way a GM could keep, NPCs reations constant.
The input I hope to make min, after the NPC, PC, or group is entered then it can be either drop down or dragged to the report, then a quick one liner added to remind the GM what happened, and how many +/- Faction was assigned.
The base Data base is not too hard, the ZUI is a might tricky but I may have found a system that will work.
I'll prob, do up something for my self, (no mem after car wreck any more), but was wondering if anyone who surives the above reading, would use it. If so, I'll take more care in adding user stuff, not just things that work :).
Thanks for reading and your ideas, on what sort of things as a GM, you would want at a glance, to have when running that NPC.
Lee
