Kind of an Odd Question

[Gwinny]

Sorry, my brain is on vacation. I've had some virulent flu strain for two days. Maybe I should wait on this until my fever-evaporated brain has condensed back into coherency but... what the hell.

I need a program that will allow me to create a database of characters (for a humongous DnD campaign, for instance) with searchable attributes. Things like "Love Interest," "Guardsman," "Slum-Dweller" and the like. Multiple attributes per character object, with a simple but useful interface. Does a specific program like this exist? I'm drawing a huge blank.

If not, looks like a coding side-project, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I probably just need something simple like "a database." I just can't think through it right now.

[Stmfuller]

uhh... (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/default.aspx) this could do it for you.

[biosc1]

Well...other than MS Excel, you could use Google Spreadsheets...or OpenOffice...

An advantage of MS Office suite is access to...um...Access Jet db program.

[DangerousDaze]

How about a mind map?

[Gwinny]

I like the mind map idea and it looks like there are some open source ones I can try out. I'm not sure how to use Excel to do what I was imagining, but I should bulk up my weak-kneed Excel skills anyway. Thanks for the ideas!

[Stmfuller]

Excel and the like are the simplest of all databases and can be manipulated to do whatever you would like. Figuring what you said you wanted to do wasn't going to be that involved, that why I chose Excel. Access seemed too much at the time...plus it involves paying $400-$700 for the office ent suite if you don't already own it.
Sorry about being kinda douchy about it though :(