@zatnosk Not really! It's easier to generate *stats* randomly but if you make name and appearance purely aesthetic then it lets people customize it without requiring any additional coding.

@zatnosk The easiest way to handle character stats and advancement is to start everyone out with the same stats and have actions increment them directly, rather than player allocation.

@zatnosk In my not at all humble opinion, setting it up with a generic framework and leaving the specifics of the system relatively easily modifiable by people wanting to spin their own instance would be the best place to start.

@zatnosk But hey, if you're serious about the idea, I'd love to work on it with you.

@zatnosk ooh, bots! What kind of bots are you working on?

@zatnosk Man that's cool. That's completely the opposite direction I was thinking. 😅 I've been poking at ways to modify the mastodon codebase, myself.

@zatnosk If you're tying the character stats into the mastodon interface, you can just add your own fields and reformat it without having to mess with user settings at all

@zatnosk The trick would be if you wanted that info to be visible on other instances, too, in which case you could have it federate out as part of the bio text, probably

@zatnosk Okay, you make a bot version, I'll make a mastodon fork, then everyone will have plenty of options!

If you're looking at bots, though, I highly suggest @chr 's bot framework, which I unfortunately don't have the link to right now...

@InspectorCaracal @zatnosk @chr https://github.com/chronister/ananas

@zatnosk Oh ok. So "replaced" doesn't mean that folowers = levels. Instead it means followers are gone, and levels are a different thing. I think I get it now.