For our Burning Locusts series, the game facilitator wrote the campaign’s relationship graph in dot notation: a text format for representing relationships. See Graphviz) for more details on dot notation.
In years past, I used dot notation. I used dot notation to make the diagrams for Cluster Creation Diaspora.
I decided to write up a relationship diagram using PlantUML: an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language
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See PlantUML for more details.
These days, I prefer PlantUML as it’s intergrated with Org-Mode 📖.
Below I have both the diagram’s source and a png rendering. I chose to render using the amiga theme.
Source and Rendering
PlantUML source for The Mistimed Scroll relationship diagram
@startuml
!theme amiga
'PCs (using the "actor" node)
actor Cloak as cloak
actor Soliana as soliana
actor Keth as keth
'NPCs (using the "actor/" node)
actor/ Tondilo as tondilo
actor/ Gwynn as gwynn
actor/ Vars as vars
actor/ Sollar as sollar
'Factions (using the "cloud" node)
cloud house_jorasco as "House Jorasco"
cloud house_deneith as "House Deneith"
cloud house_tharashk as "House Tharash"
'Locations
frame "New Cyre" as new_cyre {
actor/ "Prince Oargev" as prince_o
}
'Objects
entity "The\nScroll" as scroll
cloak <-l-> tondilo : "friends*"
cloak -d-> scroll : "possesses"
soliana -d-> scroll : "knows about"
soliana <-l-> tondilo : "friends"
soliana <--> gwynn : "healed*"
soliana <--> sollar : "siblings*"
keth <--> vars : "coworkers*"
cloak <--> vars : "shot"
house_jorasco --> vars : "tending to"
gwynn --> house_deneith : "works for"
keth --> house_tharashk : "works for"
vars --> house_tharashk : "works for"
@enduml
