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As most of my recent posts have been looking at what nice little goodies Moose has to offer and I now that I have solved my last role problem I figured it was time to take a little break from coding and look as general Design a little

I could just do like the old days and draw something up like this;

It think (well know) that there is a mindset out there against this sort of work, I know I have been told many times by 'Pointy Headed Boss Types', to stop that nonsense and get back to work and even once got fired for doing it.

I had mapped out a rather piss poor DB design and hung it on my cube wall. I was told I wasted company time by creating it. At the 'Warning Interview' I had to admit I was distracted, not by doing the diagram but by the steady stream of other developers who come into my cube to consult it.

I must admit I tend to be one of those 'lets Do er' types but I do like to get a visual picture of what I am working on but now days like Moose I am a bit of a convert.

Now days I am a fan of BPN as with tools like ARIS Express there is really no excuse for programmer not to use it. In previous D&D posts I mentioned that I could weasel by the 'Character Creation' rules so to make up for that I stayed up late last night and mapped them out and even then I did not get it 100% as I for got an important part, can you spot it?

Well I can see that I have my work cut out for me.

To start I have some 'Dice' to create. Do I use something from CPAN or write my own in Moose? Do I need some sort of constants table to keep all those values in or do I just create a number of roles that define the rules? Do I use some types to control who can become what? Maybe I can play whit 'Delegation' and create an black box API for this. ie 'Give me x and I will then tell you where you can go'??
Maybe there is a MooseX that will be really useful. Do I do testing as I go along or just at the end?

The most important part from my point of view is that my rules are all laid out for me, so for once I have all the 'Requirements' to start and they are not going to change in the middle.

Of well on with the game.