Gather requirements for project

[MylesFTOP]

Following planning and discussions with friends on what the toolkit needs to do, this should list requirements and priorities.

[MylesFTOP]

Requirements

1. Takes character ability stats and other character attributes
2. Players need to be able to store, upload, and edit multiple characters
3. Character sheets need to be publicly visible (either to everyone, or to a select group of users - e.g. friends list)
4. Stats need to track automatically based on player input and calculation rules from the rulebook (e.g. class and race abilities, modifiers with and without level, icon relationship roles, spell usages)
5. Uses dice rolls to generate stats for characters and return results on actions (e.g. attacks)
6. Can group multiple players under a campaign (with one player designated as a GM)
7. Items, spells, etc need to be assigned attributes (e.g. bonuses to ability stats

Questions

1. How many characters can a user create?
2. What sort of frontend should this have?
3. Where will the data be stored?
4. Will a GM be able to change anything (either in the characters or overriding the rules)?
5. Will users have a friends list function?
6. Will this have user accounts? How will they be created and authenticated?

[MylesFTOP]

Design

Structure: Class Library, initially with Windows Form application for proof-of-concept, later ported to website
Data: SQL
Users: Initially one per application, later multiple users on website

Key concepts

• E-mail
• Web hosting
• SQL
• Custom Events
• Error Handling
• Interfaces
• Random number generation

[MylesFTOP]

Class structure

Character

• Character name (string)
• Character ID (int)
• Player (User)
• Character race (CharacterRace)
• Character class (CharacterClass)
• Ability stats (List<AbilityStat>)
• Attributes (List<Attribute>)
• Icon relationships (List<IconRelationship>)
• Backgrounds (List <Background>)
• Feats (List<Feat>)
• Talents (List<Talent>)
• Skills (List<Skill>)
• Spells (List<Spell>)
• Items (List<Item>)

User

• Username (string)
• User ID (int)
• E-mail address (string)

Campaign

• Campaign name (string)
• Campaign ID (int)
• Players (List<User>)
• GM (User)