toucanbuzz
No rule is inviolate
D&D 3E, Pathfinder, and D&D 5E in some way tried to come up with the idea of earning notoriety in your campaign (called Fame/Infamy) and using it spend on benefits (called Prestige/Disrepute). I'm putting up some proposed rules for review as I haven't play tested them. They're based off a decade-old Pathfinder pirate campaign called "Skull and Shackles." My idea was (1) you do something awesome as a pirate, and (2) you either convince folks it was real or you just make crap up about your awesomeness and (3) if successful in this or by question, you get benefits. I expanded on what Skull & Shackles proposed to do (only 4 options per tier of Fame/Infamy).
Thoughts? Pitfalls? Anything appear too disproportionate?
Thoughts? Pitfalls? Anything appear too disproportionate?