Syndicate

Play the Syndicate if you want to have a web of contacts everywhere you go.

Finesse

Well-Connected: When you arrive in a prominent town or environment, you know somebody who calls this place home. Give them a name, note how you think they could be useful, and choose one fact from the following list:

• They owe me a favor, but they’ll be hard to find.

• They’re going to ask for something in exchange.

• They’re always in a great deal of trouble.

• We used to be together. It’s a long story.

• We didn’t part on great terms.

Contacts Everywhere: Once per session, you can briefly call on a shady contact. Choose one of the following benefits and describe what brought them here to help you in this moment:

• They provide 1 handful of gold, a unique tool, or a mundane object that the situation requires.

• On your next action roll, their help provides a +3 bonus to the result of your Hope or Fear Die.

• The next time you deal damage, they snipe from the shadows, adding 2d8 to your damage roll.

Reliable Backup: You can use your “Contacts Everywhere” feature three times per session. The following options are added to the list of benefits you can choose from when you use that feature:

• When you mark 1 or more Hit Points, they can rush out to shield you, reducing the Hit Points marked by 1.

• When you make a Presence Roll in conversation, they back you up. You can roll a d20 as your Hope Die.