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<blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5464387" data-attributes="member: 90804">I think that this is best handled with some good guidelines for the DM, and then a lot of DM judgment. Explain to the DM that the group's standing within the organization and the kingdom will affect what they can requisition. Give some examples (if their boss loves them but the head of the organization barely knows they exist, they can ask for and get X type of thing in Y amount of time. If they need it quicker, that's going to be harder to get - their boss can't pull as many strings - and so on). This goes for requisitioning both goods and services.Trying to track an exact favor score and modifiers and everything feels like the wrong approach. I see it as a narrative table about the kind of things that they can get when various people feel various ways about them, followed by some discussion of modifiers (rush orders can't be done as easily as non-rush orders; very specific things might take more time or better connections, and so on). One half-page of table-plus-text should be enough to give the DM the gist of how this works.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OnlineDM, post: 5464387, member: 90804"] I think that this is best handled with some good guidelines for the DM, and then a lot of DM judgment. Explain to the DM that the group's standing within the organization and the kingdom will affect what they can requisition. Give some examples (if their boss loves them but the head of the organization barely knows they exist, they can ask for and get X type of thing in Y amount of time. If they need it quicker, that's going to be harder to get - their boss can't pull as many strings - and so on). This goes for requisitioning both goods and services. Trying to track an exact favor score and modifiers and everything feels like the wrong approach. I see it as a narrative table about the kind of things that they can get when various people feel various ways about them, followed by some discussion of modifiers (rush orders can't be done as easily as non-rush orders; very specific things might take more time or better connections, and so on). One half-page of table-plus-text should be enough to give the DM the gist of how this works. [/QUOTE]

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