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Hey everyone!

This is my first attempt at making mechanics for tracking factions in my Planescape campaign frame.

The -3 to +3 is pretty straightforward and is used in Forged in the Dark games as well as Five Banners Burning.

However the Personal Esteem mechanics are new to me, and greatly inspired by the Bastion of Hope mechanics. How do they look for a first attempt?

I think that 4 Esteem for Freedom is quite powerful, but Tier 4 characters are also very powerful so it might be fine.

Hey everyone!

This is my first attempt at making mechanics for tracking factions in my Planescape campaign frame.

The -3 to +3 is pretty straightforward and is used in Forged in the Dark games as well as Five Banners Burning.

However the Personal Esteem mechanics are new to me, and greatly inspired by the Bastion of Hope mechanics. How do they look for a first attempt? I think that Freedom 4 is quite powerful, but Tier 4 characters are also very powerful so it might be fine.

Final Edit:
I'm abandoning the idea of grouping the factions, because it seems to distract people from my intention. My intention is to provide a document for a GM to glance at, and see the various dispositions of the factions towards the Party Group. The GM can use this as a tool to improvise a scene, perhaps by bringing in an antagonistic faction to present a story complication.
This is not intended to imply that any group of factions has significant similarities to other groups of factions.

Thank you for the input and perspectives everyone : )
End of Final Edit

I'm trying to make a Daggerheart campaign frame to communicate the ideas of Planescape and specifically Sigil. I'm sure we can all agree that 15 factions is a lot to keep track of, and yet each of the 15 factions is unique, fun and weird. They're an essential part of the setting.

So I looked at Blades in the Dark and how they have a faction-tracking sheet, and made my own version of it. My intention is for GMs to use this to keep track of how the group of PC's reputation changes as the campaign goes on.

Reputation can shift from -3 (direct conflict/war) to +3 (strong allies/friends). This isn't meant to have any specific mechanical impact, it's instead meant to be a reference guide regarding narrative relevance.
The more extreme a reputation is (negative or positive), then the more likely a faction is to be involved in the ongoing plot.

Would this be a useful tool for you as a GM?
What do folk think of my loose groupings? I think I need a better term for "Weird/Outsiders), because it seems to diminish those factions.

Edit: Explaining my placing of the factions and the groups
Also after a discussion with Cubic Warlock, I'm going to shift my vague groups into something more in line with "order" vs "freedom" or something... Perhaps with "Public Services to Sigil" still remaining, which would give 3 vague groups.

This is still a work in progress, and opinions/perspectives are welcomed.

These groups are mainly to split the table up and make it easier to read, and to loosely follow how each group interacts with Sigil and the citizens. The groups are not meant to imply that any faction is allied with the other factions. I also have 4 pages describing the unique wierdness of each faction.

• Athar: Investigate religions and control them. Try to convert them away from worshiping deities and towards worshiping The Great Unknown
• Doomguard: Produce weapons of war, which are generally used to oppress folk. These could also be a Public Service
• Fated: Act as record keepers, bailiffs, tax collectors, moguls, warlords, and oligarchs. They love controlling others by any means possible
• Fraternity of Order/Harmonium/Mercykillers: The trifecta of law enforcement.
• Bleak Cabal: They do public outreach and assistance.
• Dustmen: They keep the corpses moving and try to teach people about True Death
• Signers: Technically they control the Hall of Speakers to maintain free debate and discussion. However they can also act in selfish, independent, and manipulative ways.
• Godsmen: Crafting everything that's strange, unique, special, and interesting. Teach folk to be crafters
• Sensates: Teach, provide entertainment and distraction
• Indeps: Their core identity is that they don't fit in with anyone else and want to think for themselves
• Revolutionary League: I was tempted to put this into Enforcement, because they view themselves as enforcing freedom by breaking the system.
• Transcendent Order: Very individualistic, not really providing a service to others or maintaining the systems of government
• Xaositects: Strange, individual, chaotic, freedom loving, unpredictable.

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