Quest Logger

A tool to help track and visualize the current and historical quests for Table Top Role-playing Games (TTRPGs).

Ubiquitous Language

• Campaign: A story co-written by a game master and their players about the non-player characters the GM runs an the player characters the players run. Could be based in any TTRGP series or home brew game.
• Session: A period of continuous time when the GM and players got together to advance the story/game.
• Game master: the user who creates a campaign and owns the right to dole out or restrict editing permissions.
• Player: other users who may view the campaign. Depending on their access permissions, they may also be able to edit quests and milestones.
• Quest: A major goal one or more players are pursuing. Can be active or completed.
  • Current Goal: a minor goal one or more players is pursing to achieve a major goal. Current goals may shift or change without being achieved.
• Milestone: actions that the player characters took in the service of one or more goals (not always intentionally)

Use Cases

All Users need to

• Load a specific campaign they are allowed to access to answer the following questions:
  • What quests are active now, and what's their current goal(s)?
  • What happened in a specific session?
  • What was the total milestone history an current goal for an active or completed quest?

Game Masters need to

• Create a new campaign because otherwise they can't use the app at all
• Add/remove players because players come and go
• Change the Campaign Name because funnier or better fitting titles may reveal themselves after creation
• Change the ui style, because a shift in the campaign may prompt a change in aesthetic fit
• add/remove sessions, because they are the person who starts and stops the game
• Control editing access for players on the following actions
  • quests
    • creation/deletion
    • modify current goals
  • milestones
    • creation/deletion
    • modify description
    • attach to quest / detach from quest
    • change occurrence time (affects milestone order)
    • change session it occurred in
• can temporarily override player-set view/edit restrictions, because they may have to deal with petty player drama

Editors

• control who can view/edit a quest they created (defaults to all users have full edit/view rights)
• control who can view/edit a milestone they created (defaults to all users have full edit/view rights)

Phase 2?

• Answer the questions:
  • What has a specific character done?

Revealed Game-play Knowledge

• Players and GMs can run multiple character simultaneously
• reasons for permissions
  • Players may have secret goals they only want to share with the GM and not the rest of the party
  • A GM may want exclusive full control over the log to make sure it conforms to a specific narrative style
• Current goals are extremely malleable; they change based on the whims of the players. They are often unplanned.
• On

Design Decisions

• Frontend: svelte
  • Progress bar type ellipsis from https://loading.io/css/
• Database type: SQL or no-SQL?
  • current implementation for prototyping is just a file