Status

Status is a symbol of your social standing, financial stability, and ability to leverage your birth to your advantage.

Rolled For

Status is primarily rolled to attempt to influence creatures due to your social rank.

Difficulty Modifiers

DC begins at 0, each of the following adds +5.

• Bribe: You're attempting to bribe someone. This applies twice if they are particularly more wealthy than you.
• Bullying: The check involves attempting to leverage your status as a threat to someone such as threatening to have them arrested or mugged.
• Criminal: The check involves interactions with criminals or illegal topics.
• Dangerous: There is a significant risk of danger from the failure of the check, such as causing a combat or being arrested for impersonation or bribery.
• Elemental: The check is attempted against an elemental native. This applies two or even three times for particularly high status elemental creatures. Checks against Dragons automatically gain this three times.
• Once: The check can only be attempted once, no degrees of success, no recovery for failure. Counts as three.
• Override: The check involves attempting to overrule someone elses orders or coercing someone to do something against their nature. This applies multiple times the more dangerous or out of sort the request is.
• Professional: The check involves interactions with upstanding professionals.
• Standing: The check should not be necessary, but a particularly obtuse or hostile creature is blocking you unwarranted.

Example Tools

The following items are examples of tools for Status:

Sign of Office(d4 or d6, TDC 25), Expensive clothing(d4, TDC 20), Noble crest(d6)

Powers

Tier 1

• Faceless[You may spend 1 momentum to treat your status tier as 1 higher or 1 lower for a scene.]
• Famous[You are Famous, you cannot gain the Infamous ability]
• Guttertrash[You are a being of deepest poverty, you cannot gain the Nobility ability.]
• Infamous[You are Infamous, you cannot gain the Famous ability]
• Nobility[You are nobility, you cannot gain the Guttertrash ability]
• Official Employment[You decrease your trade strain by an additional 1 each month.]
• Right of Birth[You may add your Status bonus to Willpower rolls during debates.]

Tier 2

• Easy notice(Infamous)[You add your Status tier to debate skills to interact in friendly manners with criminals.]
• Fence(Faceless)[You may use Status to sell stolen goods rather than Trade. This functions as normal for a trade check to sell.]
• Guest of Honor(Nobility)[A character with the Host ability can benefit from that ability with respect to you for up to 3 months.]
• Host(Nobility)[When you allow someone with the nobility ability to stay at your home, you decrease trade strain by an additional 1 per week for 1 month.]
• Jhevel(Right of Birth)[When you lose a debate and start combat, you remove half the damage from the debate before the combat starts.]
• Looks important(Famous)[You may call for aid when within sight of a settlement even if the settlement cannot hear you.]
• Overlooked(Guttertrash)[You may use Status instead of Stealth to hide from or in crowds.]

Tier 3

• Attention Grabber(Famous)[You can use Status to attempt Feint checks.]
• Hidden(Faceless)[When you use Faceless, you may use it for a single check rather than a scene.]
• Noble Imposter(Guttertrash)[You may spend 2 momentum to gain the benefits of a status ability that requires "Nobility" for a scene or 3 momentum to gain the benefits for the remainder of the session.]
• Patsy(Infamous)[When one of your allies would gain a criminal reputation or warrant for arrest or anything of the like, you may attempt a Status check against their Status Defence. On a success, the criminal consequence is assigned to you rather than the ally.]
• Rich and Charming(Nobility)[You may roll Status instead of Trade to acquire items. You still increase and decrease your Trade strain as normal.]
• Unflinching(Official Employment)[When someone(other than one of your allies) attempts to bribe you, you decrease Trade Strain by 2 regardless of their success.]
• Unremarkable(Guttertrash)[You can roll Status instead of Stealth to go unnoticed on a city street.]