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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 5702638" data-attributes="member: 27897">I must admit that I would prefer a somewhat different application, of Honour. My preference would be for something that is tracked by the DM, behind the scenes, perhaps with benefits given upon attaining certain numeric plateaus. This would do away with the sort of arguments, over what is honourable or dishonourable, that I had to deal with when running a 1e Oriental Adventures campaign. I haven't done so, in more recent editions, precisely because of this. Rather than tying Feats and Powers directly to the concept "when performing an honourable act or avoiding a dishonourable one", I'd likely use something like the system of Boons in DMG2. Upon attaining a certain 'level' of honour, you would acquire a Boon and the attendant power(s). Increase your honour to a certain point and you attain the next level of that Boon. Be dishonourable and the Boon is gone, or levels down. This, without resulting in arguments over each and every action, would provide a concrete indication of honour.In fact I've been doing something like this, though without tracking it numerically, in my current campaign, basing it on achieving goals that the party's god, Kord, has set out for them. I haven't told them what these goals are, of course, because they would then be acting to obtain the prize, rather than following the dictates of their god <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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