Names and multiple identities

Acenoid · 04:22 PM

Hi there!

In Shadowrun it's important to keep real names hidden. How do you handle NPCs that you want to introduce to the game, however their name is completely unkown.

So at the moment I have added a topic as "mrs johnson" and an alias for the real name and fake names the npc is using. I have also added a tag to identify to which quest the Johnson belongs (maybe I should add an identifier too). So the "fake" id's would add and stack up quickly.

However Mrs Johnson is also a bad title in case they just meet the npc for some other reason.

How do you resolve multiple identities? Do you add several topics one for each identity?

I also have a question about relationships. In the tutorial videos I saw that you could see those faces in some kind of graphic. Where do I find it?
Are all relationships created on the current topic only and not pointing back to the topic I'm currently in?

Acenoid · May 22nd, 2014, 04:42 PM

Finished reading the best practices and trying it now with multiple topics.
Also found out that those opinion relationships are one directional and the others are bi-directional.

Thus the main questions are resolved by far.

However Iam concnerned - side characters have already between 2 - 3 identies (like the example from above: 1st topic: "the contractor - Mr Johnson" 2nd topic "Fake identity of Mr Johnson" 3rd topic: "real identity of Mr Johnson"

All 3 topics need slightly different / same information so there is a lot to add.

It would be really good it it would be possible to copy information from one topic to another, after it has been created.

Silveras · May 22nd, 2014, 05:31 PM

I use a Simple Relationship with a note if "is also" to connect separate topics relating different identities of the same character. Each identity topic has only the facts know about that identity. The relationships are revealable, so they stay hidden until the characters learn that two creatures are really one. Admittedly, though, I am not playing in a game where that is a common structure.

Vargr · May 25th, 2014, 12:45 PM

There is a discussion that at least in part covers what you are asking about.

Maybe you will find it usefull.

http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=49032

Silveras Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,528 May 22nd, 2014, 05:31 PM	I use a Simple Relationship with a note if "is also" to connect separate topics relating different identities of the same character. Each identity topic has only the facts know about that identity. The relationships are revealable, so they stay hidden until the characters learn that two creatures are really one. Admittedly, though, I am not playing in a game where that is a common structure.
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