Friends, Faction & Missions

Friend Rolls

If you have no siblings, roll a second friend: someone you grew up with. Write a Childhood Experience about them in place of the Sibling Experience (see Sibling Count).

Status

d20	Status	Example
1	In Good Health, Barely Making Ends Meet	Works the docks six days a week, patches boots instead of buying new ones.
2	In Good Health, Making Ends Meet	Runs a modest shop that keeps the family fed, nothing more.
3	In Good Health, Influential / Wealthy	Sits on the merchant council, owns three warehouses.
4	In Good Health, Retired	Spends mornings fishing, hasn’t worked a trade in years.
5	Missing	Left for a trading run six months ago and never sent word.
6	Exiled	Banished from the city after a political falling out, lives across the border or in another city now.
7	Debt Bound / Financially Ruined	Signed away the family land to a moneylender, or borrowed money from the wrong people - still paying it off.
8	Addicted	Spends every coin on drink or drugs, sells off furniture to cover the habit.
9	Imprisoned	Serving a ten-year sentence. What they did might be criminal, or they may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10	Insane / Broken Mind	Talks to people who aren’t there, doesn’t recognize old friends anymore.
11	Crippled	Lost a leg in a mill accident, gets around on a cane now.
12	Has a Terminal Disease	Wasting sickness has left them bedridden, healers give it a season.
13	Comatose	Hasn’t woken since the fever broke from when they got sick, but the body keeps breathing.
14	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, You Know Who	Killed by a rival merchant over a broken contract, everyone knows it but no one can prove it.
15	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, Still a Mystery	Found dead in an alley, the city guard closed the case without an answer.
16	Dead - Murdered / Killed by You	Died by your hand, whether anyone else knows or they deserved it is another matter.
17	Dead from a Fight / War / Adventure / Attack	Fell during the Castborn attack three years back.
18	Dead from a Disease / Plague	Taken by the fever that swept the lower quarter.
19	Dead from a Random Accident	A cart axle snapped on a steep road, that was the end of it.
20	Dead from an Accident You Caused	A fire you started got out of hand, they didn’t get out in time.

Kind of Friend

d6	Friend Type	Example	Favor Rating
1-3	Casual Friend	You get along, but aren’t super close	+1
4-5	Close Friend	Deep trust, shared history	+2
6	Basically a Sibling	As good as if not already basically found family	+3

Profession or Nobility

Roll a d6, on a one, the childhood friend was part of the nobility

Highborn Standing

d12	Standing	Meaning
1	In Good Graces with all	your family dotes on you
2-3	Has Enemies and Allies	You have enemies inside your house and those who support you
4-5	Disowned	You are so reviled they actually don’t want you in the house at all
6-12	Black Sheep	You don’t play by their rules or adhere to their customs and so no one considers you worthy of taking a position of power, but you haven’t done anything worthy of getting kicked out and don’t interfere with house politics

Profession

d10	Profession
1	Laborer / Servant
2	Tradesperson / Guild Artisan
3	Merchant / Trader
4	Farmer / Herder
5	Temple / Religious Order
6	Scholar / Academic
7	Military, Guard, or Mercenary
8	Criminal / Underworld
9	Entertainer / Performer
10	Hunter

Friend Experience

Write an experience related to your friend, explaining either why the status is not good (if it isn’t), or something you did for them or they did for you.

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Faction

Learning Ren almost always comes with strings. Very few Rennim operate without any institutional attachment.

Faction Status Rolls

Keep rolling standing until you get at least one good standing and then stop, recording all the standings you do roll. Then roll that number of standings on the faction table (rerolling duplicates) and assign each faction to a standing. Write one experience in relation to what comes out of rolling/determining your faction.

Faction Standing

Roll a d12, 1-2 = bad standing, 3-4 = Odd Standing, 5-12 = good standing,

Good Standing Specifics

d12	Faction Standing	Meaning
1-4	Member	You belong and operate under their rules
5-8	Bound	You owe a debt and cannot freely leave
9-10	Affiliated	Cooperative, often sent on their behalf, no real obligation to them
11	Sponsored	They support you; return is expected
12	Protected	They shelter you from outside threats

Odd Standing Specifics

d20	Faction Standing	Meaning
1-5	Secretly a Member	Full membership, concealed from outsiders
6-10	Secretly Bound	A hidden obligation holds you
11-14	Watched	They monitor you without committing either way
15-18	Tolerated	Your presence is permitted, not welcomed
19	Secretly Protected	Protection is real but not acknowledged
20	Secretly Sponsored	Support flows quietly; strings attached

Bad Standing Specifics

d6	Faction Standing	Meaning
1-3	Unwelcome	Your presence is unwelcome
4-5	Secretly Hunted	They pursue you without anyone’s knowledge
6	Hunted	Openly pursued by this faction

Faction Table

d100	Faction
01–18	Lesser Guild or Local Faction (Keldar)
19–40	Eventide Brigade
41–58	Government (Imperial Dynasty, Sand Swept Princes, Tribal Council, Hammer Accord, The Assembly, A Highborn House of Dosharen)
59–73	Ren Sect (Frozen Flower / Maelstrom / Daemon / Celestial Sword)
74–79	The Gate of Zerathrain
80–85	Temple Religion
86–90	The Black Tower
91–94	Yrialin
95–96	Yliasen
97–98	The Silver Hand
99	None
100	Cult (Black Chalice, Awoken, Thousand Tongues)

Faction Experience

Write an experience for your faction - if just one, then write something in relation to training, or how/why you joined, etc… Explain the relationships somehow with an event or what happened and why you did that.

Faction Relationships

These three relationships orbit your Primary Faction: the one Faction Standing your character is most entangled with. If you only rolled one standing, that’s your Primary Faction. If you rolled more than one, the good standing faction is your primary faction.

Roll the Handler Count below first. It sets how many Handlers you have. Allies and Nemeses are not pre-set; they come out of the Missions you rolled for the faction, below. Every character has at least one Handler unless their Faction Standing is None, in which case treat their Handler count as 0.

Handler

Every character with a Faction Standing answers to someone, even loosely. The Handler is whoever actually directs your involvement with the Primary Faction: a commanding officer, a guild contact, a Sect elder, or the middleman who passes down your obligations.

Handler Count

d6	Profile	Handlers
1-4	Standard	1
5	Networked	2
6	Fragmented	3, no single one has full authority over you

Every character has at least one Handler unless their Faction Standing is None, in which case treat their Handler count as 0. Repeat the Handler Rank and Disposition Rolls for each handler.

Handler Rank

d8	Rank	What it Means
1-2	Low-Level Contact	A go-between, not important to the faction, just the one stuck relaying its orders to you.
3-4	Peer	Roughly your equal in standing, given the job of keeping an eye on you.
5-6	Senior Member	Established and respected, with some real pull inside the faction.
7	Inner Circle	Sits close to the faction’s actual leadership.
8	The Leadership Itself	You answer directly to whoever runs the faction.

Handler Disposition

d6	Disposition	What it Means	Favor Rating
1	Close	You probably did them a huge favor	+2
2	Invested in You	They see potential in you, like working with you, and it shows.	+1
3	Professional	Business is business, nothing personal either way.	0
4	Indifferent	You’re a name on a list to them.	0
5	Skeptical	They question whether you’re worth the resources spent on you.	-1
6	Resentful	Something about you rubs them the wrong way, or they were forced to take you on.	-2

Mission Count

Roll a number of missions equal to your Realm x 4. For each mission, roll once on the Mission Table below for what the job was, then once on the Mission Outcome table for what came of it. Allies and Nemeses are gained entirely through mission outcomes, not through a separate profile roll.

If a mission outcome grants an Ally or Nemesis, roll that relationship out fully on the Ally or Nemesis sections further down (Origin, Bond/Cause, Reliability/Posture).

Each Mission counts as an experience.

Mission Table

d100	Mission Type	Mission Specifics
01-02	Attain	Treasure or artifact, sought purely to get rich
03-04	Attain	Rare material or resource the faction needs
05-06	Attain	A historical record or lost text
07-08	Attain	A relic or asset belonging to a rival faction
09	Attain	A living specimen, creature or person of interest, wanted for study
10	Attain	Something faction leadership wants kept secret even from its own members
11-12	Delivery	Deliver an object or material
13-14	Delivery	Deliver a person somewhere, escort duty
15-16	Delivery	Deliver a message that can’t risk interception
17-18	Delivery	Smuggle contraband past a checkpoint or border
19-20	Delivery	Deliver payment or tribute to another faction
21-24	Destroy	Group of monsters
25-27	Destroy	Individual monster
28-30	Destroy	Group of people
31-32	Destroy	Individual person
33-35	Destroy	An artifact or location the faction wants gone
36-38	Destroy	A structure, fortification, or supply line
39-40	Destroy	Evidence, records, or a paper trail
41-43	Fetch	Kidnap someone
44-46	Fetch	Retrieve an artifact or item from somewhere guarded
47-49	Fetch	Rescue someone
50-52	Fetch	Find a dossier or set of records
53-55	Fetch	Recover a body
56-59	Investigate	Solve a crime
60-62	Investigate	Scout an area or territory
63-65	Investigate	Infiltrate a group
66-68	Investigate	Surveil a specific person
69-70	Investigate	Interrogate a captive or witness
71-73	Negotiate	Convince someone to do something, diplomacy
74-75	Negotiate	Broker a deal between two parties
76-77	Negotiate	Defuse a standoff before it turns violent
78-80	Negotiate	Recruit someone to the faction’s cause
81-84	Protect	A location
85-88	Protect	A person or group of people, security detail for an event or expedition
89-91	Protect	A caravan or shipment in transit
92-95	Protect	A secret, keeping it from getting out
96-97	Sabotage	Disable an operation from the inside
98	Sabotage	Spread misinformation to mislead a rival
99	Sabotage	Poison a well of resources, trust, or supply
100	Sabotage	Turn another faction’s own assets against them

Mission Outcome

Roll once per mission, independent of what the mission was.

d20	Outcome	What Happened	Faction Favor Gained	Relationship Gained
1-3	Disaster	The mission failed badly enough that someone holds you responsible	-2	Gain a Nemesis
4-5	Hard Fought Failure	You failed, but gained a friend out of it	-1	Gain an Ally
6-13	Success	The job got done	+1	-
14-17	Success, Made a Friend	The job got done and someone you worked with stuck around	+1	Gain an Ally
18-19	Complicated Success	The job got done, but you made an enemy doing it	+1	Gain a Nemesis
20	Triumph	The job went better than anyone expected	+2	Gain an Ally

Ally

Ally Origin

Roll to see whether your Ally comes from inside the Primary Faction or from somewhere else.

d6	Origin	Procedure
1-4	Internal	A fellow member of your Primary Faction. Roll Internal Contact below.
5-6	External	Someone outside the faction who still has your back. Roll Ally Scope below.

Internal Contact

d6	Contact	Procedure
1	Your Handler	This Ally is the same person who already directs your work for the faction.
2-6	Other Active Faction Member	A fellow member, roll Member Rank to place them in the hierarchy.

Rank

d8	Rank	What it Means
1-2	New member	A completely new member of the faction.
3-4	Peer	Roughly your equal in standing, given the job of keeping an eye on you.
5-6	Senior Member	Established and respected, with some real pull inside the faction.
7	Inner Circle	Sits close to the faction’s actual leadership.
8	The Leadership Itself	You answer directly to whoever runs the faction.

External Contact

d6	Scope	What it Means
1-2	The Requestor	Whoever actually hired or sent you on a mission. Roll the Faction Table to see what they’re affiliated with, if anything.
3-4	Someone You Helped	A bystander, victim, or beneficiary a mission swept up along the way. Roll the Faction Table to see what they’re affiliated with, if anything.
5-6	A Collective	A settlement, guild hall, crew, or population, treated as a single Ally. The debt is communal, not personal: townspeople of a village you saved, dockworkers whose strike you settled, a garrison you resupplied.

A Collective Ally is almost always “Owes You” on the Bond table below. Their Reliability describes what the group can mobilize, shelter, supplies, warning, manpower, rather than what one person is willing to risk.

Ally Bond

d8	Bond	What it Means
1-2	Owes You	They’re in your debt, and they know it.
3-4	Shared History	You came up together, trained together, survived something together.
5-6	True Believer	They back you because they believe in what you’re doing or becoming.
7	Family / Romantic Bond	Blood, or something close to it.
8	Unclear Loyalty	Even they couldn’t tell you why they keep showing up for you.

Ally Reliability

d6	Reliability	What it Means	Favor Rating
1	Absolute	They’d burn the faction down for you if it came to it, or die trying.	+3
2-3	Strong	You can count on them for real help, not just words.	+2
4-6	Conditional	They’ll help, but only if it doesn’t cost them too much.	+1

Nemesis

Nemesis Origin

d6	Origin	Procedure
1-3	Internal	A rival within the Primary Faction itself. Roll Member Rank to place them in it.
4-6	External	A member of a different faction. Roll the Faction Table.

Nemesis Cause

d12	Cause	What it Means
1	Rivalry	You’re competing for the same rank, resources, or recognition.
2	Betrayal	One of you wronged the other, and it hasn’t been forgiven.
3	Ideology	You want fundamentally different things from the faction, or the world.
4	Jealousy	They resent what you have: talent, favor, position.
5	Blood Debt	Someone died, and they hold you responsible (or you hold them responsible).
6	Old Grudge	Something from your childhood or early training that never healed.
7	Fear	They see you as a threat to their position or safety.
8-12	Unknown to You	You’ve made an enemy and don’t fully know why.

Nemesis Posture

d6	Posture	What it Means	Favor Rating
1-2	Open Hostility	They don’t hide how they feel about you.	-2
3-5	Quiet Sabotage	They work against you where you can’t easily prove it.	-1
6	Active Threat	They are actively working to hurt, ruin, or kill you.	-3