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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7855990" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>Indeed,many of the patrons in Rising are pretty up front about granting access to&nbsp; library, spellbooks, between 1gpday and 100gp/month for expenses &amp; expense accounts, or just outright mgical secrets/spellbooks/etc.&nbsp; Some of them come with dues, others come with the strings of becoming someone's puppet in an employment/political sense.&nbsp; Those are only a fraction of the things that can be benefits with some of the various patrons.&nbsp; The patrons are dripping with lore &amp; flavor in ways that would be hard to convey without transcribing wayy too much to convey their cost/benefits more fully but there are also various orders &amp; groups.&nbsp; Rising 158/159 cvers the esoteric order of aureon, the guild of starlight &amp; shadows, and the closed circle (I know I've seen others, but I wss able to find these first).&nbsp; At a thousand gold join &amp; 250gp/year for membership they are kind of like many real world professional societies with specializations &amp; rivalries of their own, but adventurers guids are good for access to other &amp;&nbsp; lower level stuff on 157 at like 12gold/year.&nbsp; All combined they work very well &amp; solve many of the problems with downtime by giving ways to farm out the labor of long term research &amp; boring to the table long term stuff that would otherwise just be &quot;I'd like to... but can't yet &amp; will one day just do it&quot; to an npc you can occasionally interact with for interesting updates &amp; status reports.&nbsp; There are lots of other organizations &amp; groups but I just picked a couple of the most applicable.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7855990, member: 93670"] Indeed,many of the patrons in Rising are pretty up front about granting access to library, spellbooks, between 1gpday and 100gp/month for expenses & expense accounts, or just outright mgical secrets/spellbooks/etc. Some of them come with dues, others come with the strings of becoming someone's puppet in an employment/political sense. Those are only a fraction of the things that can be benefits with some of the various patrons. The patrons are dripping with lore & flavor in ways that would be hard to convey without transcribing wayy too much to convey their cost/benefits more fully but there are also various orders & groups. Rising 158/159 cvers the esoteric order of aureon, the guild of starlight & shadows, and the closed circle (I know I've seen others, but I wss able to find these first). At a thousand gold join & 250gp/year for membership they are kind of like many real world professional societies with specializations & rivalries of their own, but adventurers guids are good for access to other & lower level stuff on 157 at like 12gold/year. All combined they work very well & solve many of the problems with downtime by giving ways to farm out the labor of long term research & boring to the table long term stuff that would otherwise just be "I'd like to... but can't yet & will one day just do it" to an npc you can occasionally interact with for interesting updates & status reports. There are lots of other organizations & groups but I just picked a couple of the most applicable. [/QUOTE]

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