Homebrew Reputation & Faction System for D&D & Pathfinder

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This new TTRPG reputation and favor system for D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2 helps game masters track the PCs' reputation with groups and organizations. It also helps the GM decide the effect the PCs' reputation has on their interactions with others in the game world.
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@theDMLair Ай бұрын

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@russman74 Ай бұрын

personally I think starting at lvl 1 with 0 reputation locks out a characters backstory effecting their reputation. let their backstory influence their starting reputation but just keep the bonus or negative low from whatever backstory aspects they may have. gives the player more investment in caring about their reputation from the start and lets their backstory have more influence in the game as well.

@DBArtsCreators Ай бұрын

Tie such a change into their background in that case. Starting at 0 for character creation is just a baseline for the typical character.

@billnotice9957 Ай бұрын

Brillant video. My group run into " THE HATS." Half the party think they are an enemy. Half think they are neutral. Guess how they are identified? They wear hats!

@eddarby469 Ай бұрын

Sheriffs in my setting wear black hats with broad brims. Higher up sheriffs wear plumes of various colors depending on their level. Other minor offices, such as the jailer, wear colored ribbons around their hats.

@SageDarkwind 24 күн бұрын

Barbarian!Luke: "I-I-I want some hats!" Rogue!Luke: "Why do I want some hats!? They won't help me with stabby-stabby!" Barbarian!Luke: "Because I like hats?"

@loganclark4660 Ай бұрын

I just wanna say, thank you so much for these videos. I'm a very new DM that just ran a session 1, and your How To Videos really helped to better the experience for my players. So thank you, and I hope you and this channel succeed and continue to bring important information and bacon awareness to the new DMs out there.

@DaileyDoseOfJoseph Ай бұрын

If it helps, I've been running an almost weekly game for 4 and a half years. The learning never stops.

@tazmokhan7614 Ай бұрын

At first, i wasnt on board with this mechanic because I have always mitigated rep in my worlds, but you have really fleshed out this mechanic in a way that makes massive sense and less work for a DM/GM, you won me over! Looking forward to getting this book, and will be getting on your Patreon soon!

@Guy_With_A_Laser Ай бұрын

I love the DnD periodic table shirt.

@eddarby469 Ай бұрын

And bards are immediately next to the player.

@PizzaMineKing Ай бұрын

I think I'll use it in my recently started game, but give the characters some backstory adjustments - a -1 global for the bandit for being a wanted criminal in a neighboring kingdom (but the arrest warrant hasn't made it across borders), +2 in a town for the amnesiacs family reputation she's trying to figure out, -3 with the church to the dhampire necromancer for... well... being a half-undead necromancer.

@Kidharlo6723 Ай бұрын

I like to openly share an overview of the party’s reputation with the players as a simple chart with factions as columns and deeds accomplished with green dots showing +1 and red dots showing -1. For example, for the local order of knights +1 for defending the town , but for the tribe of forest goblins -1 for defending the town. Players only learn which of their deeds will affect reputation after they do it. However, I will also have some marked as +1 unknown reason, or even unknown faction -1 for rescuing the lost fey. The players can speculate among themselves who the unknown faction is, or which of their deeds just impacted reputation. Tracking reputation is a great deterrent for murder hobo parties!

@matthewesch8758 Ай бұрын

Reminiscent of the 2e splatbook for bards & Dark Sun gladiators on the fame/infamy scales.

@anathema1828 Ай бұрын

Very intuitive & simple, thanks for posting. This will come in handy in the sandbox!

@jierdareisa4313 Ай бұрын

I love ALL the DM Lair videos!!!! ❤

@DarrylCross 13 күн бұрын

One addendum I would make to the system is adding a Global Awareness that only ever ticks up every time a point of Global Reputation is gained or lost; if the party did enough to gain 5 rep, and did some other things that lost them 5 rep, that would bring them back to 0 which kind of looks a lot like the kind of reputation of green adventurers that who've never really done anything of note yet in their lives. If there is a large discrepancy between the Awareness and their reputation being to one side or the other - then it would signify that the people of the world have heard of them, but the stories have been quite conflicted. The other possibility is to have a + or - streak denoted; then if they have a -4 reputation, but their streak is 3 to the positive, then maybe there might be a bit of cautious leeway that they're led a bad life but are doing something to make amends. Or if they're at positive 3, but their streak is -4, it can be that the world saw them once as paragons of virtue but they've had some major falls from grace. - this would help give a bit more weight to their most recent actions (as most people do seem to have a bias towards the most recent; "yes, but what have you done lately?")

@RottenRogerDM Ай бұрын

Adventure League had a renown system which mostly work within their own faction. It needed work.

@storytime7408 Ай бұрын

another great vid..thanks Luke

@lyudmilapavlichenko7551 Ай бұрын

I really like this idea. I'll probably start using a simplified version for my games.

@HeroesBosses Ай бұрын

The d20 Star Wars system already has an amazing rep mechanic. When an NPC meets you they roll an intelligence check of 25 minus your reputation. If they succeed, you gain +4 diplomacy/persuasion. If you have a "bad" reputation and are "infamous" you get a -4 on those interactions but gain a +4 on intimidation. You could also use your reputation in battle to give penalties to an enemy's attack rolls and saves if they knew who you were and had reason to be afraid.

@tannermason4315 Ай бұрын

What’s the name of this system?

@HeroesBosses Ай бұрын

@@tannermason4315 It's called "Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook" - came out in 2002. I ran a 10 year long campaign and my friends loved it. My favorite rule system (based mostly on the 3/3.5 D&D rules, but better)

@kevindaniel1337 Ай бұрын

@HeroesBosses LOVED that system. It had flaws, but was a blast.

@kodiakthebear4422 Ай бұрын

Seems like a very cool system, hoping to implement it myself

@plixeon Ай бұрын

I use a slight variance of the Ravnica fame/Infamy system, but I also track dozens of factions for each of my 6 weekly games.

@grafgeo9194 Ай бұрын

Great idea, but as much as i love quantifying the world into some tables, i think that reputation is hardly able to be quantified but has to be watched on an individual level and may change nearly chaotically. I still like the idea for the general overview and which factors or dimensions to take into account!

@temrodriguez4400 Ай бұрын

I enjoy your videos. I like your delivery style. I kind of already have my way of doing reputation among factions for my table. What I'm here for is WHERE DID THAT SHIRT COME FROM. YO! That T-shirt is bad ass!

Ай бұрын

One type of reputation: great idea! Severas types of reputation: come on, man. Make the things easy, please.

@martinvoncannon6436 Ай бұрын

Nice explanation of what reputation is and how to use it in a game.

@sw33n3yto00 Ай бұрын

This system really doesn't suck! Nice job to the team.

@brandonrains5602 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the great info!

@DDann99 Ай бұрын

MISSION PASSED + RESPECT

@turboraton Ай бұрын

When you are a hardcore Eberron fan and know that almost all of those factions you mentioned even have subfactions heh. I'm so happy that you liked Eberron!

@GabeTetrault Ай бұрын

I've been trying to figure out a good way to track reputation, especially since I know a couple of my players tend to do stuff that might affect their own reputation, but those things shouldn't necessarily affect the entire party. Well, at least not always - the friends you keep, right? It just made more sense to purchase your already developed system rather than reinventing the wheel. Thanks!

@minimoose7890 Ай бұрын

Lot going on here, will have to watch again when not multitasking

@bloementuintje9356 Ай бұрын

Nothing for me... but man i am looking forward seen you do DnD, or pathfindering and see this work! the group names ou summd up are so inspiring fantastic|! I want to see it!

@DnDandVideoGames Ай бұрын

I tried to introduce factions to my game, but because I run games for super nerds, they made a joke about wanting to farm faction reputation items and completing daily quests and it gave me PTSD lol

@masonfarrow8655 Ай бұрын

Sounds like an mmo mentality.

@jackmorrison5272 Ай бұрын

You have given me A great idea for my campaign. Is reputation by any Chance also a modifier for social skills?

@NinePillar 27 күн бұрын

This may be a stupid question, but would the Friends and Foes book be compatible with Pathfinder 1e as well?

@PlehAP Ай бұрын

Good advice, though the way a sliding scale works feels a little restricted to me. What happens to the player reputation when they bounce back and forth between positive and negative reputation? If you only track their current reputation, you have a world of NPCs with exclusively short term memory. I think I would add something like Bad Blood markers. Some offenses do far more than merely shift your current reputation rating and become unforgiven grudges. Each Bad Blood token/marker you acquire makes it so you need higher and higher reputation to get what you want, because even if they like you more recently, they haven't forgotten THAT thing you did before. They like you, but they don't trust you. You may not be so bad anymore, but you're still unreliable. Then the natural thing is to let players opt in to Atonement sidequests where they can get rid of Bad Blood tokens by doing a special favor for those still harboring ill feelings

@talldarkstrangerpr Ай бұрын

House Jorasco or House Churrasco?!?!?!? :D

@raulllavaneras Ай бұрын

I have all my important NPCs on index cards, and it tracks each PC’s rep, goals, quests given, etc.

@crystaljackson3912 Ай бұрын

Pathfinder has a GMG, "Game Master's Guide" that has sheets for the GM to track micro-data in settlements, and more. It's like a character sheet for settlements. There are others as well. It helps track such things.

@jaymiescott96 22 күн бұрын

Luke and the Barbarian do not totally suck, the Wizzard on the other hand has acheived a rank of 7 out of 12 on the You Suck reputation scale

@bastionsea2829 Ай бұрын

A good reputation with a group won't necessarily mean they try to help the party. A thieves guild might send assassins after a group that helps them a lot, testing to make sure the players haven't 'gone soft' and are still worthy of their reputation

@joejackson3091 Ай бұрын

I don't remember offhand, did you have "the guy who thinks his character's actions shouldn't have repercussions" as one of the worst types of D&D players? Because I've had a few of those over the years. Their characters act like complete asshats and then they're surprised when NPCs don't like them and won't just up and help them or give them stuff. I actually had one player lip off to a city councilor in the very first session because the party asked for horses and he gave them one old fence-chewing nag. These were level 1 characters who had done nothing but show up to a meeting about undead issues and they expected to be fully financed by the city council to go out and - to the council's thinking - probably just get themselves killed. One of the other characters in that same campaign lipped off to everyone to try to flex how tough he was, even referring to one of the party's greatest allies as the c-word, and then acted surprised when NPCs chose to interact with other members of the party and ignore him altogether. There doesn't have to be a mechanic. You know your players and their characters. All you have to do is decide how far word has traveled at any particular point in the campaign.

@nonya9120 Ай бұрын

I have yet to absolutely lock in the mechanics (puttering with it for years) but reputation makes vastly more sense than alignment ever did. Thanks, as always tell meow, meow kitty hi. Best wishes.