Family Tree Sample

Here is a sample tree to serve as a potential guide for formatting. Our goal with the Family Trees is to have an easy reference to help people flesh out relationships and commonly refer to either PCs or NPCs from the noble houses.

The Happy Family

 * Big Daddy Happy (Generation 1)
 * (m) Big Mama Sweetiepants Happy (Big Daddy's wife: Generation 1)
 * Sonny Boy Happy (G2)
 * (m) Mrs. Sonny Boy Happy (G2)
 * Grandbaby Happy (G3)
 * Peaches Happy (G3)
 * Sugarplum Happy (G2)
 * (m) Sugarplum's husband, Georgie L'Something (G2)
 * Georgie Junior L'Something(G3)
 * JoeBob Happy (G2)


 * Big Uncle Happy (Generation 1)
 * (m) Big Auntie Happy (Big Uncle's wife: Generation 1)
 * Niece Happy (G2)

What's the Point
This style of formatting makes it pretty easy to scan a Family Tree and see how people are related to one another. You will notice by following the bullets down, you can figure out what 'generation' each character is from. The further in they are indented, the further down the family line they are. So Big Daddy and Big Uncle are clearly brothers. Big Daddy also has three children; Sonny Boy, Sugarplum, and JoeBob. He also has three grandchildren; Grandbaby, Peaches, and Georgie Junior.

A fancy and detailed tree-maker would cut and paste Sugarplum's family to the L'Something tree for handy cross-referencing. It might look like this, so that Georgie could be connected to his own relatives.


 * Georgie L'Something
 * Sugarplum Happy
 * Georgie Junior L'Something

There may be other ways to format trees that work, and at present there is no mandatory method. Just try to make sure that generations are clearly defined so that people can figure out who their relatives are without much trouble. As always, staff are here to help!