Character Mechanisms - creating character profile instructions (part 3)

Having added a character profile sheet to the Character Mechanisms book just after publishing the book, I never got around to making any sort of examples nor instructions.

This is the third post in the challenge to make instructions via blog for Character Mechanisms. In this post I want to try prioritizing the information on the sheet.

Source material

The source material

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/253097/Character-Mechanisms-Profile-sheets

Free profile download

Character Mechanisms

$16 sold individually worth of tools.

I put the character profile as a free download, since it might help get some more people interested in either the separate books or the full combined book.

In this post I want to create a prioritized list using the text found in my product description, since I like to reuse material to speed development up. I will list the 16 items, comment on some, then assign a letter based on importance.

Priorities

1. Relationship Generator C
2. Character Behavior Engine relies on other info B
3. Dialogue Engine relies on other info B
4. Motivation Generator - important since I use motivation in several systems A
5. Mood-Emotion Generator important to describe a character A
6. Body Language Generator - important to reveal character emotions A
7. Character Generator - important since I use personality archetypes, stat archetypes, and virtues/vices elsewhere A
8. Fact Generator although important for gaming, this doesn't play as much of a role for character profiles C
9. Modifier Generator C
10. Human Generator - important as first thing seen in a character A
11. Character Communicator relies on personality B
12. Knowledge Generator C
13. Career Generator C
14. Dream Generator C
15. Sound Generator D
16. new also includes a combined engine B

After ranking them, I will pile them into groups and then sort them once again. The end result will be the order that I will create the initial instructions for the character profile.

Group A Important

Character Generator

Human Generator

Motivation Generator

Mood-Emotion Generator

Body Language Generator

Group B Reliant

Character Behavior Engine

Character Dialogue Engine

Character combined action engine

Character Communicator

Group C Flavor

Knowledge Generator

Career Generator

Relationship Generator

Dream Generator

Fact Generator

Modifier Generator

Group D

Sound Generator