Design Character Sheet Model, Storage, and Attributes

[mikelax]

Overview

In order to allow a user to join and actually participate in a Game, they will need to be able to create a Character to use for a Game. Having a character, and posting as a character will help give the Game a better theme and feel, as opposed to posts coming from "the user".

Requirements

• As FA support multiple different Game Engines, and the rules engines for each distinct RPG rulebook can be quite complex, we will implement Characters in phases. FA will define a (very few) basic attributes that we will say every character will have. A Character will then have additional attributes that will be based on the given "Game Label" selected while creating the Character.
• Once a Character has been created with a given Game Label, the User will not be able to edit the Game Label, it will be to complicated. They will have to create a new Character.
• A Character should only be able to participate in a single Game at a time.
• A Character should have a concept of a basic Audit Trail. This will allow the user, or GM, etc to be able to track Changes to the Character and see the progression over time.
• It can be a basic table that will show fields: User that made change, timestamp, text description of change (composed of field, old value, new value).
• Implement Character List that can return all characters or available ones. Available would be ones that aren't already in a Game.

Character Attributes

Here is the list of attributes that will be defined columns on the characters db table.

• id
• name
• userId - fk to users table
• labelId - fk to game_labels table
• profileImage - jsonb, nullable
• created, updated, deleted

TODO

Tasks

• db schema & migrations
• db seed files to load some sample data
• objection models, apollo queries & mutations
• Implement Character List on Profile Page
• Select existing Character when Joining Game
• Select existing Character on Game -> Players Tab
  • Display "Still working on it" for Users that haven't selected a Character yet

Resources and Links

• A really simple and clean 5e character sheet (Google Drive PDF).
  • This sheet really show the basic attributes and features to track that would cover the 80-90% of player usage.
• BGG PbP Character Sheet Templates.

[mikelax]

@nazar here is the start of what I have for characters. Going to start working down the Task list, depending on progress might split some tasks into separate tickets.

[nazar]

A Character should have a concept of a basic Audit Trail

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