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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6720424" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Lists of titles and favors owed is a start, but for players who want mechanical depth, what they will want is some actual mechanics that they can begin to optimize. And I kind of want that myself, as a DM. I actually have a number of things going on in my game that are political in nature, and it would be handy to offer players ways to "attack" various actors politically and feel like they'd done something concrete. "No, you may not have killed Ferrovankoth (adult red dragon) today, but you just cost him 200 status points by embarrassing him in front of his grandfather." Physically attacking someone with a lot of status points might be better than allowing them to crush you, but there would be ramifications if your actions are discovered. In some cases it might be possible or preferable to crush an enemy's status instead of killing him, and then turn him into an ally by offering a way to regain some status.I should cogitate upon this notion for a while, but if WotC offers me a Social Combat module in the meantime I will almost certainly buy it and possibly even use it.</blockquote>