Fate Untold

Question: You've spoken about a lot of house rules that do not appear on this website. What are some of the ones YOU think are really neat but have not yet been put up?

John may have another favorite, but my vote goes to our God-level Fatebond rules (which are not on the site yet because they're pending the whole Fatebond system revamp).

To give a basic sketch of the idea, instead of being based on individual mortals' expectations, once Scions become gods their Fatebonds come from cults, who collectively believe in specific qualities and weaknesses in the new god and enforce them through Fate. A single cult gives basically the same bonuses and penalties as a strength-10 Fatebound mortal used to, but they're impossible to ever get rid of (even if you kill everyone in the cult, they'll all still be in the Underworld, thinking what they think) and are usually leverageable in interesting ways in the World, since they probably worship or at least believe in the Scion's divinity and can sometimes be directed to do things for him.

All gods start with at least two cults and each new one (gained the same way as normal Fatebonds, by spending Legend around mortals, but more difficult as a Scion has to build up 200 or so Fatebound mortals with at least 10 of them at high strength in order to cause a new cult to apply Fatebonds) adds new Fatebonds and bonuses. It's a lot simpler than the pre-God version; no keeping track of distance, no keeping track of individual people, and no keeping track of different bonuses or penalties since everything is either adding or subtracting 10 dice and 10 automatic successes. Players usually just put a + or - on their sheet to show that a Fatebond affects that stat. The idea is that once you're a god, individual humans must band together into large groups to affect you and there's less personal interaction, but you're nevertheless firmly tied to humanity and affected by them and the Fate that they decide for you.

Oh, yeah, and also a cult always gives a Scion one behavioral reward based on what they do there; for example, Eztli gets a reward (usually Legend, Willpower or some other resource) when she heals Sowiljr in Iceland, Jioni gets rewarded when she brings Vala to Delphi and Vala performs a prophecy (a nice double-whammy, since Vala also gets rewarded for performing prophecies in Delphi!), and Folkwardr gets rewarded whenever he leads a sizable group of people away from their homes to live in his booming Danish settlement. So there's that, too.

So yeah, a lot of stuff that is really cool but just needs some extra time for us to finish hashing the system into readable format and then some more time on top of it for me to paste it to the internet with craft glue. I'm looking forward to it.