When establishing hunting grounds, GMs need to pick a faction who claims the district that the PCs choose as their hunting grounds. How have people have divided up the district control between the various factions? The division in Crow’s Foot seems pretty clear, but I was curious if people have examples of which factions control which districts in their play.
When establishing hunting grounds, GMs need to pick a faction who claims the district that the PCs choose as their…
When establishing hunting grounds, GMs need to pick a faction who claims the district that the PCs choose as their…
For me, step one is to search for the name of the district in the list of crews – see if anyone has holdings in the area. Next is to look at the Vice Purveyors, and the district description, and see if it flags any ideas for crews. Lots of canals? Occult stuff going on? Worker’s unions? Skovs? These will give me more clues.
I also look at the choices the players made, and see if they’re angling towards any clear conflicts. Do they want to work with, using, or against spirits? Can I make clear enemies for them anywhere?
As for specific examples: my PCs haven’t gone too far out of Crow’s Foot yet, so I don’t have many!
A text search for the district name will turn up the easy answers. One of those is Nightmarket and the wraiths, which came up for me in game last night
My main group have formed The Prestige, assassins who specialise in being cleaners and conductors of disappearances for the Circle of Flame (at least for now). This relationship came about partially through having their hunting grounds in Brightstone – they wanted to work in high society, so having a secret club of decadent nobility be the controlling faction seemed apt.
I’m very much going off my gut with this stuff. This isn’t strictly a district, but my other group, the canal-going corpse smugglers, picked Arcane/Weird as their cargo type, so I decided that that kind of trade on the canals was limited by the Gondoliers – naturally, they’ve paid them off to turn a blind eye. Again, it was an in-the-moment decision based on the reading of the factions I’d done previous.