So players can use this form while following the book, I’m going to ask questions in the same order, more or less. There is an outline at Ryuutama, Natural Fantasy RPG (read-thru) - #13 by maiki.
Okay, there are a set number of Classes. Since they are collections of skills, when a player chooses their Class they are actually choosing three skills. But the Farmer also gets to choose from a subset of the total skill pool (those with a Skill Check), so we can create a follow-up conditional question to choose it.
My impulse is to create custom post types and taxonomies to hold Skills and Classes, and then reference those objects in the form; then adding new classes or skills is just adding some data to the site. However, I’m not going to support that level of flexibility in Ryuutama. I think keeping it limited to the skills and classes in the core book helps with the format of play the book is promoting. I know there is an eight class called “Navigator”, and later I’ll add it to show how much “work” the process is.
Another thing to keep in mind is the upgrade path for characters. They get a second class and associated skills! But it is done in a particular order that will simplify this form. So for now I’m going to focus on making a 1st level character. After I’ve figured that out, we’ll adopt it to second level, and so forth.
Given the importance of the Class question, it makes sense to show all the options for easy comparison. And they will only choose one.
I’m thinking radio buttons with “Class - Class Description” format. I bet I can use CSS in a clever way to make that look really nice across devices, too…