Justice and Rule
Hero
You might want to consider using Status and Reputation as "ranks" rather than "stats", where instead of using it as a substitute for Charisma or such, your rank in each would determine the DC to gain proper access, what kind of access, etc, as well as any modifiers to it. Status would be the primary rank, Reputation would largely modify your roll on that DC.
For example, your Status would rank 1-5, and each place would have its own "Status". Every step of difference would modify the DC you need for your Bureaucracy check/Diplomacy check to get proper credentials: if you're at the bottom of the barrel (Status 1) and you want to gain access to a well-to-do district (Status 3), it would go from an initial DC of 10 and raise the DC by 5 for each step of difference to DC 20 to have the papers you need just to walk in.
Reputation would add modifiers to that. If we start with an average Reputation (3), there would be no modifier. If you had a good reputation (4), though (maybe you were helpful to the guard or the community despite your lowly status), you would get advantage on your roll. With a Reputation of 5, maybe there's no penalty for failure: you're just such a good dude that people don't question why you might need access to a place you aren't supposed to be. Similarly being of low reputation might restrict what you can ask for or how you can ask: if you are particularly low reputation, you'd have to create a forgery (and probably dawn a disguise) because you can't show your face to officials without them being immediately suspicious.
For example, your Status would rank 1-5, and each place would have its own "Status". Every step of difference would modify the DC you need for your Bureaucracy check/Diplomacy check to get proper credentials: if you're at the bottom of the barrel (Status 1) and you want to gain access to a well-to-do district (Status 3), it would go from an initial DC of 10 and raise the DC by 5 for each step of difference to DC 20 to have the papers you need just to walk in.
Reputation would add modifiers to that. If we start with an average Reputation (3), there would be no modifier. If you had a good reputation (4), though (maybe you were helpful to the guard or the community despite your lowly status), you would get advantage on your roll. With a Reputation of 5, maybe there's no penalty for failure: you're just such a good dude that people don't question why you might need access to a place you aren't supposed to be. Similarly being of low reputation might restrict what you can ask for or how you can ask: if you are particularly low reputation, you'd have to create a forgery (and probably dawn a disguise) because you can't show your face to officials without them being immediately suspicious.
