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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 137326" data-attributes="member: 546">Filthy Rich [Social][Adapted from Spycraft d20]You don’t just live the high life--you were born to it.You’ve usually got enough money to buy or bribeyour way through problems.     Benefit: You have a considerable fortune invarious lucrative investments, all of it generatinginterest. Once per game month, you can withdraw upto 1,000 gp in funds to spend as you wish.Additionally, you receive 1,000 gp in extra startingmoney. You cannot gain more than 1,000 gp in anyone month period from this feat, without liquidatingyour holdings at a loss (GM’s discretion).     Special: This feat must be taken at 1st-level.Fortunate [Social][Adapted from Spycraft d20]You are unusually lucky.     Benefit: You begin each game session with anextra d4 action die. This bonus die is a d4 regardlessof the type you normally roll.     Special: You may take this feat up to three times,gaining an extra d4 action die for each additional feat.Friends in High Places [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You have a close relationship with someone in aposition of power, and that person will go out of hisway to help you.      Prerequisite: Cha 13+      Benefit: Your ally holds a noble title, churchordination, guild commission, or some other rank orposition that affords him a degree of power overothers of his kind. The ally’s actual rank is equal to tothe second degree of rank for someone of his faction(noble baronet, church canon, guild chief, etc.).     To gain the ally’s aid, you must address himpersonally or get a message to him. The GM thenmakes an Ally check. To the roll result, he adds 10 +your Charisma modifier + any modifiers based on thesituation. If you have recently done the ally a favor,you get a +2 circumstance bonus on this check. If youhave recently risked your life for him, you get a +5circumstance bonus on the check (GM’s discretion).     The DC depends on the type of aid requested. Ifit’s a simple request for information easily accessedby him, transportation, minor supplies or financial aid(100 gp or less), or a social event invitation he isattending, then the DC is 10. Asking for introductionsto his friends, allies or rivals, moderate supplies orfinancial aid (250 gp or less), arranging minorcharges against you to be dropped by the authorities,the DC is 15. Asking for dismissal of major chargesagainst you, running a competitor out of business,major supplies or financial aid (over 250 gp), militaryaid, safe house access, or any other request that couldget the ally in trouble or be sorely inconvenienced,the DC is 25 or more. Note that not all ally types canprovide all of these options. Requests for aid that theally cannot possibly fulfill will be denied.     You may make a request of the same ally once pergame month. Two successive months of requestscauses the DC to rise for each successive attempt (+5DC minimum). Should the DC ever get as high as 40,that ally will no longer heed your requests until atleast one game year has passed during which hereceives no further requests from you. However,during this time, he might ask you to perform favorsfor him to bring your relationship (and the DC) backto normal.      Special: This feat is stackable and may be takenmultiple times to increase the ally’s rank, or to add anew ally. For instance, three levels of this feat canallow for a noble earl ally.Golden Tongue [Social][Adapted from AEG’s DUNGEONS]You possess excellent speaking skills and have anin-born talent for bringing people around to yourpoint of view.     Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Bluff (not feint)and Diplomacy checks.Gossip Network [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You have a series of informants who keep you up todate on certain areas of information.     Prerequisite: Gather Information 4+     Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus to GatherInformation checks for subjects within your network’sreach. Your informants may be cackling old nobleswho let you know which lords have committedbreaches of etiquette, merchants who let you knowwho is buying what, or farmers who gladly let youknow who has gone through their area lately.     This feat may be bought multiple times to enlargeyour network’s area (successive levels do not increasethe Gather Information bonus, but do enlarge the areayour check can draw information from).     1st feat = Small City or Fief (this check takes oneday)     2nd feat = Large City or Province (this checktakes one week)     3rd feat = Country-wide, including royal holdings(this check takes one month)     4th feat = The known world (this check takesthree months)Great Leadership [Social][Adapted from The Quintessential Rogue]You have a talent for organizing and leading others.     Prerequisite: Leadership     Benefit: You gain more followers. You gain twicethe number granted by the Leadership feat. Inaddition, you gain a second cohort of a level equal toyour current cohort’s level minus two. You also gaincontrol of an organization that you create with thisfeat. Use the guidelines outlined on page 92 of TheQuintessential Rogue to generate your group.Guild Commission [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You belong to one of the guilds that regulate trade.     Benefit: You bear a Guild rank, its titledependent on how many levels of this stackable featyou possess. Each successive level raises you in rankin one title (see the chart below).     In addition, each rank grants you a +1 bonus toDiplomacy checks against fellow Guild members,regardless of Guild. This bonus is stackable with eachsuccessive rank.     1st = Apprentice/Associate     2nd = Journeyman/Chief     3rd = Manager/Boss     4th = Crafter/Director     5th = Engineer/Consul     6th = Master/Dean Hardcore [Social][Adapted from Spycraft d20]There is a core of fierce professionalism in you thatmakes even your worst enemies treat you withrespect.     Benefit: Your threat range when establishing thedisposition of NPCs who start at unfriendly, hostile,or adversary is increased to 18-20. Further, you get a+1 bonus to all Charisma-based skills targeting thoseNPCs.Holier Than Thou [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You can stave off attacks by exploiting another’s fearof your deity.     Prerequisite: Church Ordination     Benefit: By exclaiming your holiness to others,you can protect yourself from their ire. You must, as afree action, first declare your holiness before them;anyone in earshot is affected as long as they can hearyou and understand the language you speak.     Anyone who hears this declaration must thenmake a Will save before initiating an attack againstyou. The DC is 10 + your level. If he succeeds, hedoes not need to make a save to attack you anytimeduring that encounter or the next 24 hours. If he fails,he cannot attack you that round but can make anothersaving throw the next round and every roundthereafter until he succeeds, after which he mayattack you normally. Holy Training [Social] [Created by Kaptain Kantrip]You have received special training in a church whosedeity you devoutly follow.     Prerequisite: Wisdom 10+     Benefit: You can cast per day a number of divineorisons equal to 2 + your Wisdom modifier. You canpray for and receive any of the orisons on the 0-levelcleric spell list. You are considered to be a 1st-levelcleric for purposes of determining your caster level.Householder [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You work for a noble house but are not an actualmember of the family: a servant, seneschal,bodyguard, etc. This allows some priveleges withregards to that house.     Benefit: You are considered to be a freeman involuntary employ to the house, and gain a limiteddegree of protection from that house. You gain a +1bonus to Bluff (not feint) and Diplomacy checksagainst members of that house. This represents theirincreased trust in you. Should you be caughtbetraying that trust, punishment can beharsh--possible expulsion from house employ andeven enforced serfdom, slavery or death in extremecases.Illicit Barter [Social][Adapted from Star Wars d20]You have a flair for how to buy and sell goods on theblack market.Imperial Charter [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You are a knight in service to the Emperor.     Benefit: See Fading Suns d20, p. 99.Imperial Cohort Badge [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You serve a knight in service to the Emperor.     Benefit: See Fading Suns d20, p.99.Impulse Buy [Social][Adapted from Fading Suns d20]You can fast-talk others into making purchases theymight not make were they to think rationally aboutthem.     Benefit: You can more easily convince others tobuy your wares, gaining a +2 bonus to allCharisma-based skills involved in securing the sale.In addition, you can try to jack up the price 10%. Nomatter the skill used, an impulse buy is alwaysopposed by a Sense Motive check.</blockquote>

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