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pyremius

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Disclaimer: I'm running on short sleep so this might not be a good idea. Or it might just not make sense. :) Also, I just realized I forgot to sync changes and log out before coming to work, so I can't launch Realm Works to look anything up. :(

Sometime, people don't want to reveal their identity. Other times, there's no opportunity to learn a person's name, even when you know they are important. Occasionally, someone is assumed to be of no consequence - but they're worth documenting just in case you change your mind later.

To accommodate these situations, I propose separating "Reveal Topic" from "Reveal Title". When the Topic is revealed but the Title is not, Realm Works will supply an alias generated from revealed Section 1 data: Age,Gender, Race, and Class, most likely. Thus "Elminster" would be revealed as "Old Male Human Wizard". I'm assuming that I could add additional snippets of these types, and only reveal some (I've never tried, and can't check now :( ). Thus someone operating in disguise might have two Age snippets - an unrevealed Snippet for their real age, and a revealed Snippet showing their apparent Age.
 
It might be better to let the GM set a masking title instead of trying to generate one automatically. Systems and GMing styles vary too much. Links in other text might be a problem, though.

Aside: If you have anything at work you can still look at what's there. (I rarely log in.) Just don't make changes.
 
True to Parody comment, there is nothing that says you have to reveal anything that the players do not reveal nor reveal correctly. It could be a dangerous slope to have realm works "auto generating" alias. Could lead to a convoluted mess. Even in the simplest case of "Elminster= the old male human wizard" could spiral depending on the level of magic in your campaign (aka realm) you might have lots of "Old male wizards".

IMO Realm works doesn't have to remember EVERYTHING for the DM or the Player. In this case leave it to the player to remember and let them role play the "if they don'ts".
Just my 2cp
 
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