Tell me about Affiliations

[Agent Oracle]

PHB2 has a church and a college among their examples. Oh, i see Turjan beat me to it.

 

[Aaron L]

Im still dubious as to the need for the mechanics.

 

[Piratecat]

Im still dubious as to the need for the mechanics.

I love them. They help me quantify all the half-assed things I've been nebulously faking all these years, providing cool plot hooks in the process. Thumbs up from me.

 

[WampusCat43]

I'm introducing them next week into my Age of Worms campaign as the PCs hit Waterdeep. I think it will be cool to try it out with this AP, but even more afterward. Their epic-level PCs can retire to running these affiliations/guilds, and their new PCs will be trying to work their way up the ladder(s). I really like the idea of playing the various groups against each other The potential for out-of-game, behind-the-scenes scheming is just HUGE.