Hi,
Welcome to the community.
Here are a couple of helpful links to help you get started:
Helpful Links:
Master-List Links For Beginners
CSIDE Scripting Tool Web-Site
The first has links to all sorts of resources, including tutorials and wikis, the last is a scripting tool to help you code much more efficient then with pure text editors.
Having separated paths is a unique idea and I’d like to see how you implement and execute the idea - but one caveat still should apply. Customization of the PC should still occur even with separate paths for different “types”.
There are romance fanatics in the community but I don’t think it is an absolute. Cataphrak’s Infinity series has no romance with two installments already best sellers although starting with the third title there is supposed to be romance.
Relationships are necessary, even if they are not romance-level imo.
Look forward to seeing your WiP when you make the thread and demo.