Going to try Trello for tracking NPCs. Makes sense at first blush. We’ll see.
Going to try Trello for tracking NPCs. Makes sense at first blush. We’ll see.
Going to try Trello for tracking NPCs. Makes sense at first blush. We’ll see.
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What are your columns? Do you have them by faction?
Right now it’s Lampblacks, Red Sashes (made cards for mooks and Lts), Contacts, Broken Circle (Rival Cult), General Citizens, and Strangeness. I like being able to tag cards with multiple PCs, etc, and the search is much faster than rifling through index cards. Still have it to try it in play, though.
Have you considered Kumu?
I’ve tried Kumu for relationship mapping, but not for anything like this. Do you see advantages in using Kumu for this kind of application? To clarify, I’m using Trello to be able to pull up info about an NPC quickly, but not for relationship mapping. Would Kumu do both?
Hmmm. Kumu seems to have some of the same functionality. Interesting.
Would it be possible/useful to use the Card Dependency powerup to map relationships?
I’m a noob Trello user. Don’t see the Card Dependency powerup (using Trello for OS X). Would be interesting to know though.
I generally use Kumu for any RPG relationship mapping and character notes. You can use tags, custom fields (visible depending on element type), a text description, and all that, plus you get the arbitrary connection stuff. Helpful to be able to ask “Show me all Skovlanders” or “Show me all the factions that are going to care about this heist”. I haven’t actually set one up for Blades yet (game is starting in a few weeks, hopefully), but you can look at what I’ve done for my two Dungeon World campaigns:
https://www.kumu.io/jfavolio/breaking-curses
https://www.kumu.io/jfavolio/the-chronicles-of-caradys
The first of the two is the older. The second one actually has specific views for going through DW’s between-session stuff very smoothly, and also takes care of geographical mapping.
Holy smokes, Joseph Avolio – do you use Kumu professionally as well? Those maps are awesome and insane!
Thanks. Haven’t yet found a use for Kumu at work, unfortunately.
Intriguing idea Mark! I use teamwork projects at work and I think the boards layout combined with customised tags can be very useful. Tags can also be colour coded and that’s a powerful visual aid for negotiating complex in game relationships. Have to explore Kumu too – thanks Joseph Avolio
Take a look into: kumu.io – Kumu . You have a gogle sheet with columns for Name, Tier, Name, Discrict, Allies, Enemys … and then you can use this as a data source for kumu where you cluster them visuallly just a click.
Once set-up you only have to update the sheet. Quite elegant IMHO.
See also this discussion in the FATE Community https://plus.google.com/+RobertJacobsMSCIS/posts/f448x6izw98
My problem with using Trello is that my NPCs keep trying to link to me on Facebook and get me to play Farmland 🙁