Another question, so sorry!
So I am doing a story where there is a sibling that varies in gender depending on the choice of the player.
My question is, how do I put this into text without having to rewrite each scene with different pronouns and names? I don’t want to have to writer three different versions with ${sister_name} and ${brother_name} and ${sibling_name} with the appropriate pronouns shifted each time.
Make the pronouns variables as well, and use multireplace. (Also, there’s no reason to use three different variables for the sibling’s name based on their gender.)
$!{sibname} walks into the room. $!{sibsub} @{sibthey sit|sits} down and @{sibthey put|puts} ${sibpos} feet up.
So I do realize I can just:
*create sibling “”
And have the value set to the name depending on the gender that the player chose, but how do I stat block that then? Like if I already have sibling as a variable being used to set the name of them, what do I do for the percentage of closeness?
Because right now I have
*create sibling 20
You could make the variable ${sibname}, the way I did in the example.
I’m just being slow on the uptake, sorry.
So I would have
*create sibname “”
*create sibling_gender “”
*create sibling 20
For the statblock, if I put sibling there, would it replace ‘sibling’ with the sibling name?
Do you mean when you’re showing the relationship on the stats page? If so, you’d want to put something like percent sibling ${sibname} in your *stat_chart.
There’s more about how to lay out the stats page here:
I’d also recommend having a look at my gender and pronoun sample code for ideas about how to deal with the variables needed for gender-variable characters.
I didn’t know I could add more stuff after percent variable, thank you!