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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 792323" data-attributes="member: 1264">I'm not sure who came up with the "workers Senate" name, but it's been in Knightfall's summary from quite a while back, so I adopted it in the "Guilds & Organizations" thread.In the middle ages, pretty much *everybody* working in the city was member of a guild. The "Workers Senate" is nothing more than the Guild for the common laborers. Actually, ~700 Laborers (those who perform manual labor without a craft or profession to speak of) and ~117 Porters (those who carry things), composed primarily of Com1's.The name sounds grandiose and implies a lot more democracy than there really is. In practice it could be nothing more than the worst caricature of a labor union ("Ya wanna work in da city? Join da Senate, or we'z gonna break yo legs!") But still, names count, and I'm sure it's members would approve of such a self-aggrandizing title.14th level halfling socialist...Nah, a halfling wouldn't demand enough respect from the Human and Dwarven population. Let's pick a burly Human. Perhaps Com9/War2/Exp3. Worked as a bricklayer or something like that for most of his life, distinguished himself fighting with the Militia during two general musters, then started getting into politics. That's the "socialist" version, which could lead to oodles of plot hooks.For a more mafia/corrupt labor union style, we could go for a Com8/War2/Rog4 instead. But then we'll have to work out their relations with the Thieves Guild instead. Again, plenty of plot hooks available!If anyone is interested in statting these out, feel free to! I don't have much experience writing up high-level NPCs, and I find myself spending *way* too much time on them...</blockquote>

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