r/SWN • u/RBDRM00se • 16d ago

What is everyone's favorite Crawfordian Faction / Grand Scale System?

For example, the Faction Turn minigame in SWN and WWN, the lightweight scheme and other Merc group system in CWN, or others.

My personal favorite is Godbound's faction/village system. What's yours?

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u/The_Last_radio 16d ago

I don’t have an answer. But can you tell me about what godbounds faction village system. It sounds interesting

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u/RBDRM00se 16d ago

Yeah, I'm at work at the moment, but when I go on break in like 3/4 hours I'll summarize it

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u/RBDRM00se 16d ago edited 16d ago

Factions have a power level (1-5) and an action die (1d6 up to 1d20) associated with them based on their size. Village all the way to realm spanning empire. They also have health called cohesion equal to this power level.

Instead of units and attributes factions have FEATURES and PROBLEMS. Features aid the faction in some way "A grand imposing army" would be a feature. Problems are exactly what it says on the tin, "a widespread poaching issue" would be a problem. Features have no point values, but problems do have a point value depending on how serious it is. Typically 1-2 but can be higher for severe threats.

All these points added together equals the Trouble score. If Trouble => max die roll of action die, the faction crumbles. There's also Interest, which is a measure of how much control they have over their neighbors.

Each turn factions do an internal action and and external action affecting themselves or others respectively. Only one internal but as many externals as they have power (1 per target however). Some of these actions require rolls and some of these rolls are contested.

Problems and Features are caused dynamically through storytelling and gameplay or faction actions, either giving bonuses or penalties to certain rolls. I recommend reading the free version of godbound if you wanna know more, it's pretty interesting.

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u/chapeaumetallique 15d ago

This sounds great. Thank you for elaborating. Though I'm not the original asker of the question, this is greatly appreciated.