Influence and Player Events

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Influence

Influence is the currency of the court. It represents the pull a particular character has in the court. The time while the group is snowed in is an excellent opportunity to trade and gain influence in the eyes of the big movers and shakers of Rokugan, the Emperor and his Consort in particular.

Characters will have a variety of opportunities to both gain influence and spend it. To gain influence, a character can:

• Place in an official GM-run event, as listed in the event itself.
• Run their own event
• Have a certain number of attendees to an event they run
• Have the Emperor or his Consort attend their event
• Engage in an act of heroism
• Do something that nets an Honor gain or more than .3
• Significant artistic achievement

Characters may lose influence by:

• Spending influence according to the list below
• Losing Honor

Influence can enter the negatives. Characters in negative influence can't spread rumors or run events.

While players may spend influence however they choose, the Kami will look askance at anyone who blows off Clan Goals in favor of their own projects.

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Player Events

As noted above, players may gain influence by hosting events. These events are meant to be social in nature, so they may not introduce any risk to the participants or to the property where the event is held. The Emperor understandably takes a dim view to any harm coming to people and things he's guarding, which includes harming their honor and reputation. That said, further details are up to the character who runs it. Events may involve rolling dice or not at the player's discretion. They may even award influence, however, it would be awarded from the character's own influence total. Events may be held anywhere currently accessible on the day they are held, and may be scheduled for any free slot on any day that does not have a GM-run event besides Court. Please do not run events concurrently in the same place and time as another event.

An event with less than 5 attendees, counting the host, is not of note and doesn't count.

Holding an event awards 3 Influence.
Every 10 attendees awards an additional +1 Influence.
Attendance by the Emperor or the Imperial Consort awards an additional +1 Influence. If both attend, this does not stack.

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Please post any details of your event in your PF for approval and list any other hosts involved so Influence rewards can be calculated properly.

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Addendum: In addition to Influence you may reward from your own pool, prizes with no mechanical effect that your PCs are reasonably qualified to grant may be awarded. This can be pretty art, a spot at a Clan school which does not wave the Multiple Schools cost, or what have you as long as it has no mechanical effect. Please don't go nuts with this.

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Please remember, player events may not incorporate:

Wound Loss
Honor Loss
Rewards With A Direct Mechanical Effect

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Updated Influence Spending Table:

Achieving a Clan Goal - 10 Influence
Post-game Goals:

• Major goals (Found a family, found a basic school, found a city, build a castle, etc.): 7 points
• Medium goals (Get a major petition involving more than one Clan approved, set an empire-wide cultural norm, found an advanced school, etc.): 5 points
• Minor goals (Get a major petition for only your Clan approved, create a long-lasting piece of art or architecture, create a path for your school, improve your Clan's relationship with another by one step (for instance neutral to warm) etc.): 3 points
• Trivial goals (Create a spell or kiho, get married, join a secret society, etc.): 2 points
  
  Influence may be pooled by multiple players to achieve a goal.

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To note expenditures:

For Clan Goals, reply to the Clan Goal thread in your Clan forums with who is contributing how much to the goal.
For personal goals, note expenditures of influence in your PF.

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You may expend your GD or DF if you have it for 3 point discount on 5+ influence point goals this game, but characters who used the GD/DF discount last game may not use it again. In essence, you are actingout this grand destiny in achieving this big goal. And please don't make multiple characters through different games with the same goals in life to try and game this system. [Edit: To clarify, you may pursue the same goal with more than one character. I would just prefer you not use GD/DF on those characters to get multiple discounts.]

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1 Goal Point from last game is worth 2 Influence from this game and vice versa for next game.

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You may expend your GD or DF if you have it for 3 point discount on 5+ influence point goals this game. In essence, you are acting out this grand destiny in achieving this big goal. And please don't make multiple characters through different games with the same goals in life to try and game this system. [Edit: To clarify, you may pursue the same goal with more than one character. I would just prefer you not use GD/DF on those characters to get multiple discounts.]

To clarify, that is not "expend a use of it". You will no longer had GD if you do this. Accomplishing this big goal is the destiny. That is what it is implying.