1.10 Relationships

Relationships represent the character's status in the world and his reputation with the people who know him/her.

This can be positive (e.g. people who like him/her, etc.) or negative (e.g. enemies).

A character's relationships will tend to change during later play, as he/she meets new people and becomes more widely known.

There are three types of relationship represented in this game:

• Status, which shows the basic reaction that other members of society will have to him/her, and also indicates what his/her rights are within the local society;
• Duties, which represent connections who can call on him/her for favours, or in a more severe case can order him/her around or control his/her life;
• Friends and enemies, i.e. people or groups of people with whom the character has established a reputation (positive or negative) and so who will act towards him/her based on that reputation.

See also:

• Character generation process;
• Previous step in character generation: Recording skill scores required by background;
• Next step in character generation: Defining character's personality traits.