Characters

Iron Vault supports maintaining character sheets for your player character. This character sheet is expected to have certain metadata that, when present, unlocks various features like automatically adding your stats to rolls, managing your assets, and even rendering a nice graphical character sheet.

As long as you have the schema in frontmatter, you can put anything you want in your character file. Even the graphical character sheet is optional. The file is a normal file so you can take any notes you want. The main catch is that you can only have one character per file.

You can create a new character by using the Create new character command and then filling in the resulting character sheet.

Active character

Iron Vault supports multiple characters per campaign. By default, most actions will use the current "active" character as the actor for, say, moves or oracles. You can switch active characters using the Pick active character. You can also enable the Always prompt for active character setting in General Settings, to have Iron Vault ask you every time, though this might get noisy.

Example

character-sheet.png

Schema

The following schema describes the expected structure of character file frontmatter in order for Iron Vault to be able to treat it as a character. It is automatically generated by the Create new character command. It can be modified by direct interaction with a Character Block, or using the Take on a meter, Suffer on a meter, and Add asset to character commands.

Key Type About
name text The character's first and last name.
callsign text (opt) The character's callsign, if any
pronouns text (opt) The character's pronouns.
xp_spent number (opt) Amount of XP spent in developing this character.
edge number Edge stat value
heart number Heart stat value
iron number Iron stat value
shadow number Shadow stat value
wits number Wits stat value
health number (0-5) Health meter value
spirit number (0-5) Spirit meter value
supply number (0-5) Supply meter value
momentum number (-6-10) Momentum meter value
Quests_Progress number Total number of ticks of progress on the Quests legacy track.
Quests_XPEarned number Total amount of XP earned from Quests legacy track progression
Bonds_Progress number Total number of ticks of progress on the Bonds legacy track.
Bonds_XPEarned number Total amont of XP earned from Bonds legacy track progression
Discoveries_Progress number Total number of ticks of progress on the Discoveries legacy track.
Discoveries_XPEarned number Total amount of XP earned from Discoveries legacy track progression
iron-vault-kind text (must be "character") Marks this file as a character.