Switch Step 0 (Clade) and Step 1 (Species) from a 3-column card grid
to a 1-column layout, with each card carrying a codex-voice
description paragraph between the meta line and the trait chips.
Rationale: establish the world's tone before mechanics — the player
reads who Canidae or Wolf-Folk *are* before evaluating ability mods
and trait pills. Trade is more vertical scrolling, but the card
content was already going wider than three columns comfortably
allowed once the parchment theme bumped padding.
Schema: CladeDef and SpeciesDef gain a Description field (string,
empty default). Populated for all 7 clades and 19 species, sourced
from the doc's italicized blockquote + a one-sentence summary of
the prose paragraph that follows. Empty descriptions fall through
silently — a species without a description still renders, just
without the paragraph.
UI: MakeGrid in both steps becomes Columns = 1 with ExpandFill;
BuildCard sets card.SizeFlagsHorizontal = ExpandFill (replaces the
fixed CustomMinimumSize 200) and prepends the autowrap description
label after the meta line. Hybrid mode stacks sire and dam single-
column grids vertically — same logic as before, just one card wide
each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds character Sex (male/female) as a top-level CharacterDraft field
required for every character, and species variants as a layer on top
of the base species record. Two variant axes:
- "sex": auto-resolves from CharacterDraft.Sex for purebreds; for
hybrids, pinned by parent role (sire = male, dam = female)
by definition. No picker needed beyond Step 0.
- "lineage": explicit per-species pick (Ram-Folk's sheep/goat). Has
its own picker on Step 1 (purebred path under the grid;
hybrid path embedded into the per-parent pick column).
Schema (Theriapolis.Core/Data):
- SpeciesDef gains VariantAxis (string) and Variants (array of
SpeciesVariantDef { Id, Name, Traits, Detriments }).
- JSON content not yet populated — that's M6.14.
CharacterDraft adds:
- Sex (required by Step 0 validation)
- SpeciesVariant / SireSpeciesVariant / DamSpeciesVariant
- ResolveVariantId(species, role) that returns the active variant
id for a given context — used by Aside to layer variant traits
onto the base species traits.
Step 0 (StepClade): sex picker row above the hybrid toggle. Two
toggle buttons radio-style.
Step 1 (StepSpecies): purebred path renders a lineage picker below
the grid when the picked species has VariantAxis == "lineage";
hybrid path embeds a lineage picker at the top of each parent's
pick column. Hover popovers summarise each variant's contents.
Validation: Sex is required at Step 0. Lineage variant required at
Step 1 for any picked species (purebred or per-hybrid-parent) with
VariantAxis == "lineage".
Aside: AddVariantContent layers the resolved variant's extra
traits/detriments onto the base species rendering, for both purebred
and hybrid paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captures the pre-Godot-port state of the codebase. This is the rollback
anchor for the Godot port (M0 of theriapolis-rpg-implementation-plan-godot-port.md).
All Phase 0 through Phase 6.5 work is included; Phase 7 is in flight.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Christopher Wiebe