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Woozle Hypertwin, 02/25/2015 06:18 PM
first draft, awaiting forum comments from Mek

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h1. Design
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h2. Concepts
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* *Quests* - a "quest" or "questline" is basically a software-mediated storyline
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** progress on a quest is indicated by "quality"
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*** advancing in the quest raises the quality, which locks all previous events in the quest out of sight and unlocks further advancement in the quest. 
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* *Qualities* aka attributes
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*** e.g. having quality "Mystery of the Pie-Shop" = 3 gives the player access to the 3rd "card" in the Mystery of the Pie-Shop questline
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* *Cards*
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** Cards have attributes
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*** *Discardable* -- player get rid of card without playing it
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* *Characters*
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** Characters have attributes:
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*** *Skills*
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**** these are author-defined
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**** Mind, Matter, Charm, and Magic are the primary skills in SnowRPG
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**** each skill has a Menace, whose level goes up when usage of that skill fails
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*** *Menaces*
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**** these are author-defined
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**** Weary, Wounded, Suspicious, and Troubled are the primary m
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*** *Chaos level*
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* *Opportunity* vs. *Always* -- an attribute of a card? Or other things too?
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* *Locations*
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** these are author-defined
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h2. Features
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* *admin*
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** event management
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*** create, edit
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*** search
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**** "search by quality affected" and "search by quality required" (Very Useful)