Creating Genealogies

[GThiel]

In an attempt to input the genealogy of the Royal House of the region in which my players are adventuring, I looked through all the available tools and decided that the closest I could come would be to use a World Almanac/storyline.

But .. .. ..
I discovered as I was entering people as plot ponts and connecting them together, that Realm Works wanted to rearrange them all by itself without a way for me to position them where I wanted.

For example a King has two sons. The elder dies without heir, his brother becomes king and the line follows from him. Everything is ok as I add the King and his two sons, but as soon as I add third generation, the second son is moved to the leftmost position. :-(

Is there a way to position plot points manually, or is there a better tool to use to display Genealogies?

Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions.
Jerry

[zarlor]

Personally, I don't think Realm Works is well set up to handle Genealogies beyond very simple ones, understandably so since the software that is set up to handle them are quite intricate in their own right. My preference is to use genealogy software for that. There are several freeware ones mentioned at http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...e-software.htm that are worth looking into, IMHO.

For simple trees in RealmWorks just set them up as people, not plot points, and link their base relations to each other. The thing RealmWorks excels at, I think, is less about base parent/child type relationships and more about social relationships between people.

[Viral Platypus]

Unfortunately, a full genealogy is going to be difficult to view. You can set it up with relationships, but with the web view, you can only see the immediate relationship. Maybe sometime in the future they will add in a view for this, but they have their hands full right now with other features. Maybe see if there's a feature request out there and +1 it or add one if not.

[Cornelius]

Currently I use Realmworks to input all the information on the different individuals (People) and link them through the relationships (family relations -> union and parent/child links).

I have not checked on the web view option. During beta test the relationship options were changed I still have to correct the relationships. With over 400 relationships this is a lot of work.
So I use a free on line program for viewing the genealogies. I used it before I had Realmworks, but I do hope (and will push towards it) that Realmworks will handle them properly .