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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8616248" data-attributes="member: 6775477">I've used it before, and there's some pitfalls to avoid. Overall the concept works pretty well, however.Most organizations are going to be local groups, with a few being nation-sized. Only a handful are really going to have multinational influence. Figure out how far you plan on taking the game, and set your organizations accordingly. Local organizations should be far easier to get influence with, but they're going to have much less utility when you're not there. You've already got your guilds kind of set up, but I'd still take another look at them to make sure you'll be okay.Tracking can be a pain, depending on how much you want to do with it. If you want some political PvP, you'll need to track each PC's renown, since they'll work as individuals as often as a group. Assuming your group is going to remain cohesive like most groups, then you can just track the group as a whole. You should consider where the party/PC stands with each faction after every adventure, although most missions won't impact more than 2-3 groups. A simple spreadsheet with every faction and the party's renown should be sufficient.You might want to fiddle with the numbers layout, as I'm not fond of their setup. First of all, I allow renown to go negative (infamy) to represent the organization being unhappy with the PCs. Secondly, I require more and/or harder missions to gain renown, since as printed it's not hard to jump up quickly within a single organization. For example, if using the downtime activity, 1 week might gain you 1 renown if under 5, but it'll take 2 weeks for each after that, then 3 weeks once you're at 10, etc. A few simple missions might get the PCs some renown, but once you're at 5, they need to get harder to be worth renown, then again at 10, etc. Alternately you can score 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 renown points that eventually add up to full renown.</blockquote>

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