House Rules: Factions - Secrecy

A faction can have one of three Secrecy states: Open, Covert, or Disguised.

Open

An Open faction is one that is publicly known. Any citizen may have heard of them, and it is easy to locate the faction. Knowledge checks to learn things about the faction have their DC decreased by 2.

Covert

A Covert faction is hidden from the public eye. People might be aware of the existence of a Covert faction (such as a thieves guild or secret police), but won’t know anything about its members, structure, or base of operations. The DC for Knowledge checks or Diplomacy checks to gather information about Covert factions is increased by 5.

Disguised

A disguised faction is a group or organization which publicly claims to be one thing, while in secret is something else entirely. A network of black market merchants appears to be a Trade faction, but is actually a Legal faction. A disguised faction gains bonuses on checks based on its actual faction type, not the public one. The DC to learn information about the public faction type is decreased by 5 (since the faction is putting effort into making that information available), while the DC to learn information about the actual faction type is increased by 10.

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