I’m hoping for something a little more purpose built (like a HUMINT tool) that could be used with maximal ease by a GM. That has a lot of fiddling around with layout for the desired use. Then I looked at online graphing tools like yED and diagram.ly, which are fine but I already own Visio. Then I thought maybe I could use a virtual corkboard like or Spaaze but those don’t even have basic “pins and yarn” kind of ways to represent relations. “Do it in R,” suggested someone who clearly wanted a punch in the nose. There’s super complicated open source BS like graphviz – not something I want to deal with as part of my hobby. But then I started looking for good tools to do it and started coming up short. This reminded me of the person-to-person tracking diagrams I’ve seen in books on intelligence work, it’s a common HUMINT technique. I was asking for better ways to track PC/NPC relationships in my game on RPG Stack Exchange and Brian brought up the free game Minimus, which is basically an example of social network mapping for an RPG.
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