Hello. I'll start by saying two things: first, this is my first post on this forum, and I'd just like to say hello to everyone, and second, I'm rather new to DMing (I've only DMed about 3 or 4 games), so I may be a little naive, or not very fluent with things, but I just wanted to make a thread about a party reputation system I just thought up, and I want to see if anyone has any ideas on how to make it better, and to see if anyone thinks it's a good idea in the first place.
You see, my players are all pretty much beginners, or haven't had much experience with the roleplaying part of the game. Personally I like the roleplaying aspect a lot, and I've been trying to think up a reputation system that could help with it and perhaps influence or inspire them to roleplay more.
This is what I thought up: there are 4 types of reputation gained - Political, Underground, Popular and Class. Political has to do with dealings with other kingdoms or countries; Underground has to do with secret groups/societies/kingdoms not recognized by the majority of other political powers/ anyone that operates under the radar of most everyone else; Popular involves people in general; and Class has to do with the attitude of different social classes towards the party. Class is seperated into 3 subgroups - Lower Class, Middle Class and Nobles.
The reputation in the party for all these various categories will be kept in a numeric system starting at 0. Generally getting on the badside of whatever group results in a negative score, while making friends and doing good results in a positive score. Concerning political, however, a positive score would mean you're liked by good nations, and disliked by corrupt ones; while a negative score would mean just the opposite.
I thought this might be a good way to get people more into the roleplaying aspect of the game, as various groups respond to them in different ways. I think it's a good idea, I could be wrong though. Has anyone else done a system like this? And, if so, was it better (I'm sure it was) and how did you set it up?
You see, my players are all pretty much beginners, or haven't had much experience with the roleplaying part of the game. Personally I like the roleplaying aspect a lot, and I've been trying to think up a reputation system that could help with it and perhaps influence or inspire them to roleplay more.
This is what I thought up: there are 4 types of reputation gained - Political, Underground, Popular and Class. Political has to do with dealings with other kingdoms or countries; Underground has to do with secret groups/societies/kingdoms not recognized by the majority of other political powers/ anyone that operates under the radar of most everyone else; Popular involves people in general; and Class has to do with the attitude of different social classes towards the party. Class is seperated into 3 subgroups - Lower Class, Middle Class and Nobles.
The reputation in the party for all these various categories will be kept in a numeric system starting at 0. Generally getting on the badside of whatever group results in a negative score, while making friends and doing good results in a positive score. Concerning political, however, a positive score would mean you're liked by good nations, and disliked by corrupt ones; while a negative score would mean just the opposite.
I thought this might be a good way to get people more into the roleplaying aspect of the game, as various groups respond to them in different ways. I think it's a good idea, I could be wrong though. Has anyone else done a system like this? And, if so, was it better (I'm sure it was) and how did you set it up?
