The General Glory System 0.9

Originally Published February 7th 2021

I plan on running a game where an expansionist empire will be a somewhat central problem. What is an expansionist empire if it doesn’t have military leaders vying for power and glory along with their conquest?

To help facilitate that I have created a simple numerical system to track how much glory one person has gained to the people of the empire.

The Count

Each General has a renown score, the score represents the abstract public image of them as a person. Their score can only change once they have returned from the front line.

There are five brackets of renown one can have.

Unknown (1-15)

While they are an accomplished general the people do not know much of you.

Respected (16-30)

Talk of their exploits has reached the public. The people respect their military might

Renowned (31-45)

The people hear fables of what you do. People will sometimes walk up to them to thank them for their service to the empire.

Revered (46-60)

Considered one of the greats of the empire. The people love them dearly, some consider them the best general of this generation

More loved than the Emperor (61+)

The people love them so much they would gladly accept them as their new Imperial Leader

At renown levels 15, 30, 45, 60, and 75 the character gains a new title reflective of the actions they have undertaken on their Campaigns.

The Modifiers

These are some of the actions a general can take of events that happen to change their score.

Boones

Bring back a Monster unknown to the Empire (Alive) 7

Bring back a Monster unknown to the Empire (Dead) 6

Bring back an Animal unknown to the Empire 5

Bring back an Artifact 3

Bring back a Religious or Magical Artifact 6

Conquer a City 8

Conquer a Town 4

Describe an Animal unknown to the Empire (Deceitfully) 3

Describe an Animal unknown to the Empire (Truthfully) 4

Establish an Outpost 5

Gain a minor Scar 1

Prove you are Innocent of Treason 8

Win in a Duel to an Equal Opponent 4

Banes

Be accused of Treason -4

Be revealed to be a liar -5

Disobeying high Command and Failing -8

Disobeying higher Command -4

Fail to Defend a City -6

Gain Major Scarring -3

Loose Imperial Flag -4

Loose in a Duel to an Equal Opponent -4

Loose in battle to another Empire -5

Loose in battle to an Unworthy Opponent -7

Plotting Against the Empire -20

Refuse to Duel -6

Team Work

When two generals work together on a campaign there is a role made to see who gets the lion's share of the glory. Two opposing roles are made by the generals using a d8 with a modifier based off of what bracket they are in.

Being Unknown provides +0

Being Respected provides +1

Being Renowned provides +2

Being Revered provides +3

Being More loved than the Emperor provides +4

The general with the higher result gets all of the renown points.

The Sheet

I have made a simple sheet to help you keep track of the standing of any specific general.

The 0.9

while I believe the basic concept of this is down I don't think this is finished at all. These numbers are just ballpark estimations. This is a system that would need a fair amount of use via playtesting an entire campaign and that is somewhat hard to do so I am releasing it in it's unfinished state to be updated later.