Melindrea
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11 years ago [7:39:57 PM] Marie: So, I have a question to see if there's interests in this, from ST and/or player view... The ability to "tag" a character with stuff from backstory (fae, Haslanti League, orphan), themes you'd enjoy (fae, undead, social combat, mystery), stories you wouldn't enjoy (fae, mass combat, social combat). [7:40:18 PM] Bandersnatch: I would like that, Marie [7:40:39 PM] Jose: I would be careful of htat [7:40:49 PM] Jose: The basic idea I like [7:40:55 PM] Marie: What do you see as a possible risk, Jose? [7:41:12 PM] Marie: (since preparing for possible risks should, well... minimise them) [7:42:38 PM] Jose: Tag overflow and tag irrelevance. If the purpose of the tags is to better classify and inform similarities between backstories, it should be either regulated to an extent that there is a classification system to easily use the information behind the tags, or it should be tag-clouded automatically by an automated program to use for correlating [7:42:56 PM] Marie: I mean, it wouldn't be a free "get out of jail" card, obviously. Social combat occasionally does happen. [7:43:19 PM] Jose: wait I think I misunderstood the way you are tagging [7:43:22 PM] Jose: rereads [7:43:28 PM] Marie: I can see three types of "tags" [7:44:16 PM] Marie: One is purely based on backstory so that an ST can find all characters that have dealt with pixies in the past, one on stories you'd enjoy (kind of/sort of), one on stories you wouldn't enjoy. [7:44:16 PM] Jose: My concern is mostly "if players fill out the tag" or " if we don't have a tag dictionary and we write differnet names for the same info" [7:44:46 PM] Marie: Which is implementation, and would need to be figured out closer to it. I'll add this to the repository. [7:45:15 PM] Jose: ah: my concern then is relevant mostly with the first use and only midlely relevant to the other two [7:45:36 PM] Marie: And the first... we might actually be able to write a dictionary to parse backstories. [7:45:57 PM] Jose: right, there is more than one way, one that is active and one that is more passive and statistical [7:46:06 PM] Jose: and those are just two off the top of my head [7:46:19 PM] Jose: anywho, the dictionary would also help with the 2nd and 3rd use [7:46:51 PM] Jose: in that if implemented efficciently a person is more likely to use the tag established rather than a similar meaning tag they make up
Tagging characters in a couple of ways: