From fa29e99bd88c0bedc83488376a937043c8dc9f79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Guidry Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:40:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Tell the DM a character slug is a name, not a placeholder A live session created characters/your-bard/ because the sheet tool's description showed the slug format without saying where the slug comes from. The description now says the slug is the character's own name, lowercased and hyphenated, that it is permanent across the record and every wikilink, and that a character without a name is not ready for a sheet: ask the player, or offer fitting names, before creating. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HvctyUUkzw7PcNrjCGA6dF --- src/dm/tools/sheet.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/dm/tools/sheet.md b/src/dm/tools/sheet.md index da943ab..e9955b3 100644 --- a/src/dm/tools/sheet.md +++ b/src/dm/tools/sheet.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Write a character's mechanical state: create the character, or patch the sheet. -Give `character`, the slug that names the character's directory under `characters/`, like `sister-maren`. +Give `character`, the slug that names the character's directory under `characters/`, like `sister-maren`. The slug is the character's own name, lowercased and hyphenated, and it is permanent: the record, the logs, and every wikilink will carry it. Never use a placeholder like `your-bard` or `new-character`. A character without a name is not ready for a sheet, so ask the player for the name, or offer a few fitting ones, before you create. Give `sheet`, the frontmatter keys to write. Every value is absolute, never a change: after a seven-point wound, write `hp: 15`, never `-7`. Absolute values keep a misremembered subtraction from compounding. On a character who already exists, the keys you name are the keys that change; every other key keeps its value and the prose stays as it is. You decide what keys a character needs. The only key the engine reads is `name`, the name the transcript shows. -- 2.51.2