Character Generator

User Actions

Introduction Screen
Enter parameters for system
- Pre-chosen nodes
- Genre and Sub Genre
- Or choose a template for the above
Choose type of generation
- Environment - generate a setting
- Nature - generate a race or family group
- Nurture - generate events
- Full character - all three from an age range to another age range
Save or print data

Node ID# (unique identifier)
Group (How nodes are identified as groups)
- Genre (fantasy, scifi, modern, historic - controlled vocabulary?) — Note - I'm thinking of having one table per genre as a way to reduce processing.
- Sub-Genre (low/dark/high/post-apoc etc)
- Type
  - Environment
  - Nature
  - Nurture
- Sub-Type
  - Culture, Tech Level, Social, Political, Religious
  - Racial Genetics, Tribal Genetics, Family Genetics
  - Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, Middle Age, Old Age
Sub-Group (for grouping of nodes that doesn't fit the above 4 identifiers, e.g. subgroups)
- Name of sub-group
Title (of this node)
Description (What it does)
Time (how long it takes to do)
New (weighted chance of acquiring this node new)
++Inherit (weighted chance of acquiring this node from parents/family/society)++ Won't be bothering to implement this to begin with as templates and choosing nodes before random generation should cover it.
Chance Changes (effects the weighting of other nodes)
- List of Node IDs, Groups or Sub-Groups
- List of weighting changes
Effect Changes (effects the description of other nodes)
- List of Node IDs, Groups or Sub-Groups
- List of description changes
Children (what having this node as a result means which other nodes are then used)
- List of Node IDs, Groups or Sub-Groups