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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BluWolf" data-source="post: 121327" data-attributes="member: 627">Here is an example of a social template;TEMPLATE-MEMBER OF THE JACKS THIEVES GUILDNarrative textRequirements:1) Must be inducted into and remain a member in good standing of the Jack?s thieves guild. Standing in the guild is a determination of the leadership of the guild (i.e. leiutenants, captains and the guild master).2) Must meet the minimum honorarium each month.A guild member is responsible for generating revenue for the guild. While the guild usually has sanction over ways and means, ultimately it is up to the member to make his honorarium each month.A guild member is required to give 30% of all his income per month to his boss. At a minimum, a guild member is required to produce 100GP X CL each month. Guild members that miss a monthly honorarium lose all benefits of guild membership, but is not thrown out of the guild, until they come current. A guild member that misses several months, or is discovered to be sandbagging or skimming, can find himself, at the least, out of the guild. At worst, set up or dead.Benefits:1) Gather Information: While in the city of Odessa a member of the guild gains an environmental bonus to Gather Information checks equl to ½ half his level in rogue, minimum of +1. In order to gain this bonus the member must be in Odessa and be leveraging guild assests.2) Innuendo: Guild members gain a situational bonus to Innuendo skill checks equal to their CL. This bonus is only useful with other members of the guild.3) Intimidate: Guild members gain an environmental bonus to Intimidate skill checks equal to ½ their CL. In order to gain the bonus the target(s) of the intimidation must be know the PC is a member of the guild. This bonus does not apply against other members of the guild or enemies of the guild.4) Guild Wharehouse: Guild members can procure equipment from the guild at a discount. A guild member can request to purchase equipment  from the guild the DM will make a determination if the equipment is available. If so the guild will traditionally charge 20% than street price. If the member was invovled in procurin gthe item or components of the item this discount can increase to 50%.5) Accomodations: The guild usually provides housing for members. This locations can range from condemmed buildings to small apartments located in guild controlled buildings. This housing can be considered a safehouse or secret location in regards to conventional search or inquiries about where that PC lives. Housing is usually a perk of status with in the guild. In game terms a player can assume he has a safe location equal to 10 sqft. / CL .6) Access to specialists: The guild has access to many people of varying degrees of skill and morality. Guild members can make a request of the guild for help in locating someone of a specifc skill set or attribute. If the guild can provide this individual, the member takes all responsibilty for the individual to include compensation for services rendered. While the guild is capable of providing this service it is not a common pracitce and is frowned upon when abused.In game terms a PC can make a request 1/mo, if nothing went wrong with the last request. The person recruited can be of the maximum level equal to the leadership score  of the guild leader the request has been made to. Take this into consideration when making the request. The guild is also under no obligation to fulfill the request. Whether or not a person is recruited on behalf of the PCs only 1 request can be made per month.In answer to your question Ziggy, I have not created any social templates that would give WP bonuses and I don't forsee it either. The first rule I use when creating a social template is that it cannot give any ability/feature/feat that could not be taken away when one of the requiremetns is not met. Example: The above template does not give a guild member a proficiency in Garrote though it may on the surface seem to fit. Why? Because it makes no sense that you would leanr how to use it in Odessa but then for some arbitrary reason, not be able to do it else where.I could see situations where a social template would give you ACCESS to a magical item. Wizards guild or member of a religious order. I haven't done any of these yet but I will eventually. Oh there are no wizardly orders in my world though.</blockquote>

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