I have a secret project I've been spending way too much time on, but it's wrapped up now and kind of off to the printers. It's my third iteration of said project, in a couple of ways so maybe actually my 6th go (?) but in several iterations I thought it might be beneficial to chart things out to make it easier for the GM, because while life and the so-called simulated life we call a TTRPG aren't usually linear, or as linear as we'd want them to be, certain aspects are (like aging in life and trying to read an adventure, for example). I'm so not a flow chart guy, but I thought, more than once, that having some sort of flowchart might prove useful.
Now I am not going to whip out the old drafting tools or hunch over a table to get a flow-chart hammered out, which is how I stumbled upon Flowsage. I had actually checked out a couple of "free" flowcharting solutions and some looked great, but low-key kind of sucked balls. Spending a lot of time charting stuff out, making it look nice.....because face it, if I don't care how it looks pen and paper beats anything else available....but not being able to export the finished product?
Flowsage has some limited AI flowcharting chat support that might have been useful, but I didn't go there, so I cannot speak to its effectiveness. I was able to get what I needed done, spit out as a PNG file, and then I finished up in Photoshop. The freebie account, which was just a quick Google login for me, lets you have up to 5 projects, and 5 AI credits, but that was about 4 more than I needed since I can always delete a project when done.
Just saying it you think you could use a free flowchart, well here you go.
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