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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6788718" data-attributes="member: 82779">Well, it's not entirely new.Charisma is still used for diplomacy and other social skill checks.  Influence acts as a situational modifier to those rolls, but it can also be spent for greater functionality.Renown functions largely as described in the DMG, as a measure of the character's good standing with a group or individual.  The changes I'm considering making to it simply allow it to be attacked by others instead of lost only through the actions of the character with the renown score.Loyalty is very similar in that it also functions largely as described in the DMG.  My changes to it are merely there for the sake of being able to reasonably erode someone's loyalty to another person or organization.The templates that I spoke of would really only be used on NPCs, to apply proper levels of influence and renown to them and to set a few default ways to curry favor with or oppose them so that they can be used by DMs using this system without the DM having to do a large amount of work.  PCs would develop renown and influence through their own action instead of choosing one of these templates as a background, and they would have their own motivations to appeal to or oppose.The fame score is new to 5e, though it's just a twist on D20 Modern's version of renown.Regarding the concept of this system being orthogonal to the existing stat system, I would disagree with that assessment.  This system does use existing stats and skills as a base.  Additionally, it provides a means of using those stats and skills to do additional things.  It also builds off of the sowing rumors downtime activity.  I would say that this system branches off at an angle before paralleling the existing system instead of simply skewing off at a right angle to the existing system.</blockquote>

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