Bondsmith

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Getting started covers installation, tracking your first actors, and opening the viewer.

Every setting is listed on the settings page.

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Highlights

Per-character reputation

Every tracked actor keeps its own score with each faction and NPC. Score ranges map to tier names and colors drawn from a built-in preset, one you write, or a Roll Table linked to a faction.

Factions and locations

Give a faction members and ranks. Nest locations inside each other as continents, countries, settlements, and points of interest. Factions and actors can each hold a share of control over a location, and a location with more than one controller shows a contested badge.

Relationships and graphs

Model relations between actors, factions, and locations. View them as force-directed, genealogy, map, or timeline graphs. View and edit rights on a graph are set per player.

Relationship board

Flag a scene as a relationship board and the connection lines for all tokens on the scene stay on screen at once, rather than only the lines belonging to the selected token. Board scenes also get the Arrange Tokens tool. A separate scene option turns on connection lines and adds the Draw Connection tool for lines you draw between two tokens yourself.

Decay over time

Pull reputation toward a target value on a schedule with reputation decay. Set it globally, then override it on a single actor or faction.

Player knowledge controls

Hide entities from players with visibility controls. An actor can show players a masked name instead of its real one. Scores can read as tier names instead of numbers.

Automation triggers

Fire reputation changes off game events with automation triggers.

History and backups

Review reputation and relation changes in the change log. Move data between worlds with import and export.

Scripting

Macros and modules read and write reputation, relations, factions, and graphs through the developer API. Bondsmith also fires hooks other code can listen for.