When is a database not a database?
Regardless of the game characters and set design, a
good Role Playing Game (RPG) is a collection of tables.
Let’s look at the tables that might come in a game.
Each character would have a set of attributes or strengths. As the
character goes along his mission, he would lose or acquire tools.
The mission, itself, would have a table of maps and coordinates.
Say our character gains a new weapon, and his
opponent loses strength. In a database, there would be an append
query to add the weapon to our character’s table. Another query
would delete some strength from the loser’s table.