Choose the social structure
Prepare a family, household, crew or network for your adventure. Set the size, complexity, generations and overall closeness or conflict.
Tabletop people and connections
Relationship
& Lineage
Generator
A family. A loyalty.
A debt. A private connection.
Prepare the ties between people.
Generations. Loyalties. Tensions.VISINVOKE account and Desktop Control Centre.
People with ties that matter
Give the network a place in your world.
Prepare the people, relationships and tensions together.
Prepare what is at stake
Review loyalties, rivalries, debts, inheritance and private connections. Decide which ties matter to the characters and the next scene.
Family. Mentors. Rivals.
See the ties across the network.
The illustration shows people arranging groups of figures linked by coloured cords, with a family tree, a household, rivals, a key and an inheritance chest.
Prepare family and social ties alongside friendships, loyalties, debts, employment and mentorship. Review the people involved and decide how each connection matters in your campaign.
Relationship and lineage preparation
People. Bonds. Story hooks.
Review the network and shape it for your adventure.
Choose your network
Prepare a family tree, household, crew, mentor line, rival network or inheritance dispute. Choose the social structure your adventure needs.
People and generations
Choose the number of people, complexity and generations. Review the people and their place in the network before using the result.
Closeness and conflict
Set the overall closeness and conflict. Use friendships, loyalties, estrangement and rivalries to prepare relationships with something at stake.
Debts and inheritance
Add debt, leverage and inheritance to your preparation. Consider who owes something, who expects to inherit and what that means for the story.
Mentors and employment
Include mentorship and employment ties. Connect people through teaching, duties, shared work and the commitments those ties create.
Private connections
Choose secret density and optional hidden ties or parentage. Review the private explanation and decide what the characters can learn.
Missing and deceased members
Include absent or deceased people in the network. Review how their place in the family or household affects those still present.
Context and boundaries
Add social context, optional romance and anything the result should avoid. Review the network against your campaign before play.
Review and shape the record
Edit the material, compare results or reroll a section during preparation. Review the people and relationships together after making changes.
Keep useful networks
Save to your signed-in account, search, reopen, rename, tag and annotate records. Copy the complete record, download the structured network or print it.
Review public ties and private notes
Choose what the characters learn.
The illustration shows a group reviewing a family portrait tree beside a dark panel of private connections, with keys, coins and coloured ties between portraits.
Review the Dungeon Master and player-known views before sharing material. Choose the information that belongs in the scene, keep your private preparation separate and decide how a hidden tie could be revealed.
From the people to the story
Choose. Generate. Review.
A focused preparation workflow.
Choose the network
Set the people count, type, complexity and generations. Choose the closeness and conflict that fit your world.
Add the circumstances
Set debt, inheritance, mentorship, employment, missing members and optional secrets. Add social context and avoidances.
Review the people and ties
Read the people, family and household ties, loyalties, rivalries and hooks. Edit the material to fit established campaign facts.
Prepare the next scene
Decide what the characters know and what is at stake. Keep a useful result with your preparation and review it before sharing.
Bring the connections to the table
Give each bond a human scene.
The illustration shows several generations gathering around a garden table, with a mentor guiding a child, an older couple sharing a key and family members greeting one another.
Use the prepared people and ties to shape a gathering, disagreement or reunion. Review the loyalties, debts and tensions, then decide what the characters can discover through the scene.
Keep useful relationship material
Save. Revisit. Share with care.
Keep the network with your campaign preparation.
Save your networks
Save to your signed-in VISINVOKE account and reopen a useful record. Search by name and delete records you no longer need.
Organise your preparation
Rename, tag and annotate saved records. Use earlier versions when reviewing the material you have kept.
Copy and download
Copy the complete relationship record or download the structured network. Keep it alongside your campaign notes.
Review your sharing view
Choose the Dungeon Master or player-known view and print useful material. Review its exact contents before giving anything to players.
Your workspace and related tools
Continue the adventure.
Open your tools through your VISINVOKE account.
Desktop Control Centre
Open Relationship & Lineage Generator in DCC. Get the desktop workspace through your account installer page.
Redemption Generator
Prepare a separate story about making amends, its cost and how others respond. Use that material alongside your adventure.
Product illustrations show generations, social ties, private notes and family gatherings.
Questions and answers
Know the relationship workflow.
Preparation, review, saved networks and account access.
What can I prepare?
Prepare families, households, crews, mentor lines, rival networks, inheritance disputes, private connections and related branches. Review the people, ties, tensions and hooks for your campaign.
How do Quick and Deep setup differ?
Quick setup covers people count, network type, complexity, generations, closeness and conflict. Deep setup adds debt, inheritance, mentorship, employment, absent members, secrets, social context and avoidances.
How do private connections fit?
Choose secret density and optional hidden ties or parentage. Read the private explanation, then decide what the characters know and what could be revealed in play.
Can I revise a network?
Review and edit the material, compare results or reroll a section. Check the people and ties together before treating a revised result as established campaign information.
How can I keep and share a result?
Save to your signed-in account and reopen useful records. Copy the complete record, choose a Dungeon Master or player-known view, download the structured network or print it. Review the exact content before sharing.
Where do I open the generator?
Open Relationship & Lineage Generator from the Generators collection in VISINVOKE Desktop Control Centre. Create an account or sign in and get DCC through your account installer page.
Continue in VISINVOKE
Your account. Your workspace.
Create an account or sign in. Get Desktop Control Centre through your account installer page and open Relationship & Lineage Generator.
Keep useful networks, saved records and exports together in your desktop workspace.