Splitting delve and starforged content in to their own packages

[rsek]

Place to collect discussion, notes, outlines etc on how this will be organized

[rsek]

Here's a draft roadmap for how packs and item types could be distributed across the packages. This is intended as a target, not an MVP.

Note that type renames are really easy now. plus, checking the type property is a very direct and legible way to check if something needs a migration in migrateData.

foundry-ironsworn system

Document Types

Actors

• pc (currently character)
  • a more precise label (npcs are characters too), and also much shorter
• party (currently shared or starship). i'm working on a PR for this.
• npc (currently foe)
  • rationale: foe means, well, a foe. but if the point of this is to provide a token, i don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine that folks might want them for companion assets, friendly NPCs, incidental vehicles, and so on
  • polymorphic functions could be managed with sheets
  • could accomodate some kind of document linking with ForeignDocumentField. e.g. link it to a PC's asset to make the sheet + token able to update the asset

Items

• progress
• asset
• move (currently sfmove)
• progress-move, maybe? for details, see Progress moves as their own Item type #817

JEP

• progress-track (currently progress). rationale: to distinguish it from progress items, and to reflect its nature (the JEP is literally just a bare track; the item is a container for a progress track, a clock, and some notes).

Classic Ironsworn compendium packs

I go back and forth on whether these should be included in foundry-ironsworn by default (downside: could be unwanted clutter for SF or custom IS hacks; extra data use), or as part of their own package (downside: system looks a bit sparse out of the box -- compensate with a dialog hint?).

A variation of the latter (which I haven't yet investigated) would be providing them as a preconfigured world. Since it's essentially the content for "the Ironlands" as a setting.

Consider ironsworn-classic here as a placeholder for whatever this ends up being.

• 📂 Ironsworn Rulebook
  • ironsworn-classic.oracles (currently foundry-ironsworn.ironsworn-oracles, excluding those from Delve)
  • ironsworn-classic.assets (currently foundry-ironsworn.assets)
  • ironsworn-classic.npcs (currently foundry-ironsworn.foe-actors-is, excluding those from Delve)
    • note i'm working on dropping the foe progress items as a pack; special drag and drop functionality for foe/npc actors will replace them (so that users can still drag a foe on to their sheet and instantly add it as a new progress item)
  • ironsworn-classic.scenes (currently foundry-ironsworn.scenes)

ironsworn-delve module

Settings

• enable/disable rules for delving
• enable/disable rules for threats
• enable/disable rules for failure track
• enable/disable rules for rarities

Document Types

Actors

• ironsworn-delve.site (currently site)

Items

• ironsworn-delve.theme (currently delve-theme)
• ironsworn-delve.domain (currently delve-domain)
• ironsworn-delve.rarity: a new item type to represent delve rarities.

Compendium packs

• 📂 Ironsworn: Delve
  • ironsworn-delve.oracles (currently part of foundry-ironsworn.ironsworn-oracles)
    • would it make sense to split out the oracles for threats and delve sites, which are associated with their own "submodules" of rules?
  • ironsworn-delve.moves (currently part of foundry-ironsworn.moves)
    • would it make sense to provide each group of optional moves as its own compendium pack? rationale: compendium packs are a clean "unit" for enabling/disabling a modular group of content within a package.
  • ironsworn-delve.npcs (currently part of foundry-ironsworn.foeactorsis)
  • ironsworn-delve.themes (currently foundry-ironsworn.delve-themes)
  • ironsworn-delve.domains (currently foundry-ironsworn.delve-domains)
  • ironsworn-delve.rarities: new pack. the premade rarities from the book.
    • we could put the "Wield a Rarity" move in here too, as it's an Item. then all rarity rules would be in one tidy pack.
  • ironsworn-delve.sites: new pack. the premade delve sites from the book.

ironsworn-starforged module

Document Types

Actors

• ironsworn-starforged.location (currently location)
  • alternatively: make it core to foundry-ironsworn and develop some sheets/configuration to make it usable for classic ironsworn locations

Compendium Packs

• 📂 Ironsworn: Starforged Rulebook
  • ironsworn-starforged.oracles
  • ironsworn-starforged.moves
  • ironsworn-starforged.assets
  • ironsworn-starforged.npcs

ironsworn-sundered-isles module

Settings

• the curse die
• multiple supply tracks

Compendium Packs

• 📂 Sundered Isles
  • ironsworn-sundered-isles.oracles
  • ironsworn-sundered-isles.moves
  • ironsworn-sundered-isles.assets
  • ironsworn-sundered-isles.npcs