Affiliations (4E)

Greyhawk for 4E

This is a work in progress.

An adoption of affiliations to 4E.

Affiliations are organizations that heroes can join and advance in trough their heroic activities. They encourage role-playing and offer tangible but non-material rewards. As described here, they do not replace the monetary economy of a campaign, but they can be modified to do so if desired.

Each affiliation is actually a hierarchy of organizations from the local to the interplanar level. To make this comprehensible, affiliations are divided into tiers; Heroic, Paragon, and Epic, corresponding to the different tiers of adventuring. Heroic characters join heroic affiliations and gain local fame and influence. As the scope of adventure grows at the paragon tier, the heroic affiliation leads on to its paragon mother organization. Finally, at epic levels, the movers and shakers behind the affiliation are discovered, epic creatures with influence in many worlds and places. In many ways, paragon and heroic affiliations are branches of the epic level mega-affiliation, independent but connected to a greater whole. Each epic and paragon level affiliation can have several different branches at lower levels. It is even possible for a lower-level branch to have ties to several higher level affiliations, offering a choice of mother-organizations to move to as you advance, but this is unusual. The normal structure is a pyramid, with several lower-level affiliations tied to a single higher-level one. Certain affiliations exist at several levels, allowing characters to remain in the same organization over a wide level spread, but even then lower-level characters are likely to deal with and be recognized mostly with a single branch of the organization. Affiliations are listed by their entry level.

Each affiliation has a number of statistics used to record it and its activities, as well as a general description.

Background: This is the history of the affiliation, its goals and purpose. If it has any allies and enemies these are detailed here as well.

Members: Thus is a description of a typical member, which usually includes both a supporting members and adventuring members. This can include the symbol of the affiliation, any uniform or distinctive dress it prefers, as well as the professions and classes of members.

Goods: Most affiliations provide goods and or services at a reduced price; these are listed here. Typically, any magic item of a level equal to or less than the character's affiliation score can be bought at 150% price instead of the normal 200% price.

Services: The services and influence the affiliation wields.

Alliances: Affiliations of a higher or lower level in the hierarchy, as well as those merely sympathetic to the affiliations.

Advancement: These are the criteria for advancing in the affiliation.

Heroic Tier Affiliations

• The Familiar Club
• The Seekers
• Twin Lights

Sasserine and the South

• The Azure Cathedral
• The Church of Whirling Fury
• The Club
• The Dawn Council of Sasserine
• The Merchant's Maze
• Shadewise
• The Spire of Sasserine
• The Sun Lodge
• Witchwardens
• Zelkarune's Horns

Central Flanesse

• Free City Guild of Wizardry

Paragon Level affiliations

• Church of Pelor
• Lords of Commerce
• Masons
• The Peerage
• Sanguine Domina
• The Scarlet Brotherhood
• The Sons of Boccob

Epic Level affiliations

• The Circle of Eight
• The Court of Stars
• Circle of Nations

References

• Affiliations for 3E