#WarhammerWorld – help needed!
We wanted to make social class as a stat, and roll+social gap. But that would mean that bribing or manipulating a person of the same social class is at+0.
But! Basic move on our hack is:
When you bribe or manipulate someone, compare your and their social class and roll+socialgap.You may spend 1karl-franz 1for1 to add+1 to your roll (max 3).
On 10+ they ask for a promise, and do what you want if you accept to do it. Whether you do it or not is up to you later (and the consequences too).
On 7-9 they choose one:
· give them 1 extra karl-franz
· you owe them
· they ask you for a promise. assure them you’ll do it – now.
On a miss – you’re caught red handed.
[1 karl-franz is food and sleep for a week or a basic bribe or normal gear, or a knife].
So basically, when you’re a thief (social class-1) and you want to convince the townguards person (social class=0), you basically roll at -1 (+1 for every karl-franz spent).
I want the people in the grim Warhammer World to be corrupt and easy to bribe. (Not sure if it’s working now). Any ideas?
I think it works. It just makes money and commodities an important part of bribery. Which they should be, really.
Alternatively, you could just roll + social class. That would make rich people more powerful and influential (which makes sense – I’ll trust someone with clothes good manners more often than a rat-catcher.
If you keep the + K-F rule, the poor still have the option to use hard cash to convince people.
This would also work well in a 1900s Victorian setting.
I like that it’s a basic move.
It’d be neat if there was a game with separate sets of moves for dealing with people who were higher status, peers, and lower status.
Yeah, as a basic move it works. The exception to the rule should be it’s own move, for instance the nobleman thief is going to have a special ability that either allows him to be accepted by other thieves, or give him an edge when bribing guards.
Not all bribes are money. Maybe the exception is that if you’re high status the stakes are different, your assurances are worth more but your good name is also at stake if they were outraged and made your bribe attempt public.