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Title: Guildmember Suggestions
Post by: Random_White_Guy on March 25, 2020, 10:14:09 PM
After some late night debates last night I've been mulling out the situation with the Guildmembers and wanted to flesh out some suggestions. I fully understand different people play EFU for different things and it's nice to have a flavor preferred and variety is the spice of life. As we've been a year+ into the chapter though it's been curious how much more... proactive isn't the right word, but engaging it feels for even the lowest level Peerage PCs vs the higher established Ticker PCs.

A few things to maybe even out things.


It would give a specialized position more sway over the guild at large if say - The Trade Ambassador has to coordinate with Security to try and deal with setting up trade policies with Crowclutch. Just more actual sense of "The Guild" rather than each individual member pushing their own agenda. However as not every Guildmember has to have a Stronghold, a few more ideas.





I'm not sure how much of this has been done by the DMs and I know PCs have tried off and on to "seize control" of Ticker, but on the whole it's a problem I've wrestled with across 3 or 4 of my own Guildmembers.

When people in the Guild say "No, i'm not that into Politics", it really hinders motivation to try and hammer everything on by yourself against the entire guild.

It's not specifically a DM or a PC end problem but this weird sort of... I don't know what to call it. Lethargy?

There's this funk surrounding Ticker where it's easier to get along and go along than it is to shake things up. Where as in the Peerage there's more clear cut lines. Not a bad thing mind you, a different thing, but being a Guildmember of Ticker Square is a weird position.

Not everything or everone  HAS to shake things up, and this isn't some call for some grand PvP conflict or anything like that, but the Merchant's Guild doesn't feel fully baked if that makes sense.

As someone who has played numerous Guildmembers I love the bureaucratic angles and politics and not a single one of my Guildmembers has ever been able to find their footing or involved in anything of the sort.

Just a lot of "Go away I want to make money" vs "I don't get involved in sides i'm Neutral" vs "Well fuck this then, i'm done trying in Ticker I don't want to have to push this entire agenda alone, like I did my last guildmember PC."

As the Blade Boom wages on, some more hard lines drawn in the sand by PCs and DMs alike could really make the place pop
Title: Guildmember Suggestions
Post by: Random_White_Guy on March 25, 2020, 10:24:37 PM
As a last minute additional thought, what about expanding the use for points?

Instead of calling in merchants or etc allow PCs to have bigger events, occasions, etc where multiple Guildmembers can pool their points that day to try and make something "Bigger" in Ticker. It could be supportive to the guild, it could be selfish and to the detriment of others, or anything.

Some scripted way for Point-Combining for the day?

- 3 Guildmembers combine their points and raise banking limits from 2,000 groat to 5,000 groat for a week? Winning favor with PCs and NPCs across the board/etc.

- 3 Guildmembers combine their points and coax the Prospectors open some new seams or bigger "Event" seams, or etc.

- 2 Guildmembers combine their points and raise "Taxes" on local merchants leading to a price hike on all goods and services from trade stalls to Doorkeepers to Rent at the Open Door and they get a quick-influx boost of like 500-1k each, which could have some IC ramifications.

- 5 Guildmembers combine their points in some really big vote to mess with or hinder a Guildmaster's business in some way for their own benefit. And DMs could have the Guildmaster seek retribution.

All loose ideas so far but I do love the "Use 1 point for X" model the Guild has to change Ticker, maybe a way for combined points to influence events or the Ward could add a lot of overlap.

"Here's 600 gold let me have your point for the day to do X, let's go to the Guild Hall and get the process started"