Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we showed you how to start off making your own unique faction.

This time we’re showing you two tables to roll on that will make your faction even more unique, but is also chiefly geared to how your faction will present itself to the world.

Oddities

We’re all a little bit strange in our own way, and your faction won’t be any different. The table below will give your faction its own distinct quirk or oddity that will shape how your faction interacts with its own members, but also with the world outside. A faction whose members are only of a single sex or race will look and act quite different than one who is extremely iconophilic or has distinctive clothing.

Bear in mind that just because you are rolling for one oddity doesn’t mean that your faction can’t have as many oddities as you want. Just because your faction didn’t get the Tattoos/Scarification/Piercings option doesn’t mean that they can’t enjoy a good tattoo now and again. If you want more than oddity for your faction, just make sure one oddity is its main quirk, the one that truly characterises it.

01-05: Anonymity among members.
06-10: Arduous joining/initiation rituals.
11-15: Communicates chiefly in code.
16-20: Cut off prior friend/family contact
21-25: Distinctive clothing.
26-30: Distinctive methodology.
31-35: Distinctive weapon/tool.
36-40: Enforced code of conduct/honour.
41-45: Extensive ritualistic practices.
46-50: Has a high level of bureaucracy.
51-55: Has a specific colour theme/style
56-60: Hatred for specific group.
61-65: Iconophiles.
66-70: Is stigmatised by society.
71-75: Secret society to the world.
76-80: Single race faction.
81-85: Single sex faction.
86-90: Specific age restriction.
91-95: Specific social class restriction.
95-100: Tattoos/Scarification/Piercings.

Recruitment Offers

Every faction needs to get its members one way or the other. Whether your faction actively goes out to recruit new members, or people hear of your faction’s reputation and come wanting to join, there will always be something that your faction offers potential recruits as an incentive. If your faction goes out recruiting, this offer is what they will use to entice people to join; or if people come of their own volition, then they will hear about this offer and that can be what brings them on board.

01-10: Brotherhood
11-20: Entrapment
21-30: Faith
31-40: Goal/Cause
41-50: Knowledge
51-60: Might
61-70: Mysticism
71-80: Safety
81-90: Vengeance
91-100: Wealth

Exemplar

Last time we rolled what sort of faction our Righteous Prophets were, and we discovered they were a smuggling ring inside a police force. Now let’s see what quirk they have, and what they offer new recruits. With a 78 and a 20 we have a single race faction that entraps new members into its ranks. Well we knew the Prophets were a bunch of corrupt cops to begin with, organising a smuggling ring and all, but they really have gone all out on the villain checklist this time.

And that’s it for this update. Have a go at seeing what makes your faction odd and quirky and tell us what interesting options you discovered. In the next update, we’ll dive into the history of your faction to see all the things that have shaped them up to this point.

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Remember that you get to choose what we work on after the Faction System has been made, so CLICK HERE to vote!

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