Cult of Personality

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Qualified Classes: All Classes.

Your Capital is your reputation in this Settlement — the stories, songs & legends that follow you. You don’t command any of these people & you have no institutions to speak of (you certainly can’t hold a Subfaction with a fan club), but they’ll show up when you need them.

• Popular Support: Your Followers represent people who admire you, tell stories about you, or would come to your aid when called upon. You cannot command them to make Actions (this means you can’t use Grow Follower Base) & do not control Locations with them, but you can call upon them for shelter & supplies, information gathering, crowd support, & volunteers for desperate & heroic causes to the tune of at most $1 or 1 day of labor per Follower per month.
• Reputation-Based: Your Follower count grows through heroic deeds, public victories, artistic works, or dramatic gestures that capture public imagination. It shrinks through public failures, betrayals, or extended absences.
  • Gain 1 Follower per HD of enemies you defeat (doesn’t have to be murder) & publicly champion. Gain 1 Follower per $30 you “invest” in carousing —partying & schmoozing.
  • On any minor public victory/defeat, judged by the GM based on popular attitudes, (gain 50%/lose 33%) of your current Followers.
  • On any major public triumph/catastrophe, judged by the GM based on popular attitudes, (gain 100%/lose 50%) of your current Followers.
  • You don’t lose the Level benefits of a personality cult until you return (“I’m still big back home!”), but when you do return to a Settlement where you have one, reduce Followers by 10% if it’s been 3 months, 50% if it’s been 1 year, 75% if it’s been 2 years, or 90% if it’s been 10+ years. Negate 10% of the loss for each wild victorious story you can bring home with you.