Drop dead gorgeous

[DylPickle]

I have to say, I appreciate the title.
And support the suggestion.

[Miri]

I don't very much like the idea of special descriptions for dead, but I 100% agree they should keep their 'living' descriptions.

[SekoETC]

I think people should write after dead descriptions separately because I wouldn't want to see things about how the person carries themselves on a dead person. But the descriptions should be written before death because if there was an option to write them afterwards, people could take advantage of it to reveal things they shouldn't.

Edit: Slightly off-topic, it might make sense to create a separate table to descriptions and save old descriptions for a week, so it would be possible to view the description someone had when you saw them, even if the person was no longer present.

[RedQueen.exe]

I think people should write after dead descriptions separately because I wouldn't want to see things about how the person carries themselves on a dead person. But the descriptions should be written before death because if there was an option to write them afterwards, people could take advantage of it to reveal things they shouldn't.

Edit: Slightly off-topic, it might make sense to create a separate table to descriptions and save old descriptions for a week, so it would be possible to view the description someone had when you saw them, even if the person was no longer present.

I think that I disagree just because I think it will cause a lot of people to not do it. I suspect that a lot of people don't expect their characters to die, or don't particularly care about what is left behind them if they do. Plus, information about behavior is clearly something they wouldn't know, but is probably mostly innocuous.

[gejyspa]

Additionally, that means that if they update their current description (tattoos, scars, etc), they'd also have to remmeber to update their post-death one. I don't the before the fact after death descs is a good idea.

[Miri]

Edit: Slightly off-topic, it might make sense to create a separate table to descriptions and save old descriptions for a week, so it would be possible to view the description someone had when you saw them, even if the person was no longer present.

Only silghtly, but I fully +1 this. Although how about someone changing their description afterwards, while you can't see them?

[Comy]

I think using the current description would be easiest. Details about mannerisms and such could be easily ignored.

[SekoETC]

Although how about someone changing their description afterwards, while you can't see them?

Each description would be saved along with the time of when it was saved, so it would show you the version that existed when you last saw the person. ...Although how would it keep track of when you last saw a person? I think if a character profile was viewed through events and the person wasn't present, it should take the timestamp of the event being viewed and search for the most recent description that was created before that time.

[Pony_Huetchen]

How about having two kinds of description, typed in separately. One for pure outside characteristics which stays after dead and one for manners and habits.

That's not more complicated than an extra box for the body, I think, but mayby takes less effort.