Grapevine User's Guide

Adam Cerling, author
with Brandon Morrison
User's Guide Version 3.0

• 1. GRAPEVINE USER’S GUIDE
  • 1.1. What is Grapevine?
    • 1.1.1. Hold On – What’s a LARP?
  • 1.2. Program Features
  • 1.3. Program Requirements
  • 1.4. For More Information
• 2. YOUR GRAPEVINE GAME FILE
  • 2.1. New Game
  • 2.2. Open Game
  • 2.3. Save Game
  • 2.4. Save Game As
  • 2.5. Data Exchange
    • 2.5.1. Saving Selected Data
    • 2.5.2. Loading Data
  • 2.6. Merge
  • 2.7. Recent Files
• 3. SETTING UP YOUR GAME INFORMATION
  • 3.1. Game Information
  • 3.2. Game Dates
  • 3.3. General Settings
  • 3.4. Action Settings
  • 3.5. Rumor Settings
• 4. WORKING WITH PLAYER INFORMATION
  • 4.1. Player List Window
  • 4.2. Player Information Window
  • 4.3. Maintaining Player Points
  • 4.4. Sending E-Mail to Players
• 5. WORKING WITH CHARACTERS
  • 5.1. Character List Window
    • 5.1.1. Showing a Character Sheet
    • 5.1.2. Adding a New Character
    • 5.1.3. Deleting a Character
    • 5.1.4. Copying a Character to a new Race
    • 5.1.5. Sorting the List of Characters
  • 5.2. Character Sheet Basics
  • 5.3. Experience Histories
  • 5.4. Counting Points on a Character
  • 5.5. Maintaining Experience Points
    • 5.5.1. Group Maintenance
    • 5.5.2. Attendance View
    • 5.5.3. Standard Awards
  • 5.6. Permanent and Temporary Ratings
  • 5.7. Vampire Boons and Status
    • 5.7.1. Boons
    • 5.7.2. Status
  • 5.8. Searching for Characters
    • 5.8.1. Creating a Search
    • 5.8.2. Saving Searches
    • 5.8.3. Deleting Searches
    • 5.8.4. Most Recent Search
  • 5.9. Statistics
• 6. DEFINING THE GAME WORLD
  • 6.1. Items
  • 6.2. Locations
  • 6.3. Rotes
• 7. CHRONICLE: ACTIONS, PLOTS, AND RUMORS
  • 7.1. How to Do Downtime
  • 7.2. The Chronicle Sequence in Brief
    • 7.2.1. Example
  • 7.3. Taking Action
    • 7.3.1. Editing a Character Action
    • 7.3.2. Example
  • 7.4. Driving the Plot
    • 7.4.1. Editing a Plot
    • 7.4.2. Example
  • 7.5. Rumormongering
    • 7.5.1. Writing General Rumors
    • 7.5.2. Writing Influence Rumors
    • 7.5.3. Example
• 8. PRINTING, SAVING AND E-MAILING CHARACTER SHEETS AND REPORTS
  • 8.1. Choosing a Report
  • 8.2. Selecting What to Generate
    • 8.2.1. Selection Tabs
    • 8.2.2. Searches & Statistics Tab
    • 8.2.3. Dates & Options Tab
  • 8.3. Printing
  • 8.4. Saving to Files
  • 8.5. Sending E-Mail
    • 8.5.1. About SMTP
    • 8.5.2. E-Mail Setup
    • 8.5.3. E-Mail Addressing
  • 8.6. Templates
• 9. CUSTOMIZING GRAPEVINE
  • 9.1. Editing the Grapevine Menus
  • 9.2. Customizing Character Sheets and Reports
• 10. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM FEATURES
  • 10.1. Window Maintenance
  • 10.2. Help
  • 10.3. Quitting the Program