I've been running ToR for about six months now, and there have been a couple of things I haven't be quite satisfied with:

1) My game isn't really about treasure, so there isn't the opportunity for characters to gain standing as much as I'd like.
2) Rewards and virtues are cool, so I want my players to have more of them. At the same time, I want them to be appropriate to what the characters are doing IC.

The first has been relatively easy to solve - I just give out standing when a character does a suitably impressive deed that catches the notice of important people in their culture (Although I still make the players pay treasure to upkeep their standing between years).

With the second, I've linked virtues and rewards to standing - when a character does something to gain standing in their culture, they also get to pick another reward or virtue (Most likely the latter). If the players have done it as a group, or for a different culture then they receive a generic reward at the same time.

What do people think to this change? The only thing I haven't looked at is that Wisdom/Valour isn't as attractive now that they don't come with Virtues/Rewards. I'm thinking about changing the XP cost of these to x1 rather than x2, does this sound reasonable?

Thanks,

Mark

Just out of curiosity, when you increase a player's standing, is it just given to them, or do they choose to have it increased when the option is available?
Because the way standing works in the RAW is a bit like 'I've decided I want these people to like me a bit more... oh, now they do' which is a bit weird IMO

Hi Pathstrider. Check out pages 10 & 11 in this pdf of house rules: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/79541775/Additiona...use%20Rules.pdf

It doesn't fit exactly what you want but it may give you further ideas and/or options.

It happens in character in return for great deeds.

So for example, the party (A Dalesman, an Elf, and a Woodsman) defended a settlment in the Dales from marauding Easterlings. King Bard rewarded the Dalesman by increasing their standing which also came with a virtue (They were inducted into the King's men). The Elf and Woodsman didn't get a bump in standing, but got their weapons sharpened by Bard's own smith (Each of their weapons gained the keen reward).

Mark

Hmm... I like it. It sounds much more fluid

This is how my house rules work regarding Renown. As Renown crosses all Cultures then I could easily tie rewards to increases in that characteristic for all races. Hmmmm, may have to think about this more.