House Rule #7 – Rogues

We use the game mostly RAW. Here are some of the changes we use at my table.

Syndicate

Minor tweak at foundation, and a gold and damage buff at specialization.

FOUNDATION FEATURE

Well-Connected: When you arrive in a prominent town or environment, you know somebody who calls this place home. Otherwise spend 1 Hope to reach a contact. 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.

SPECIALIZATION FEATURE

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 bag 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 d8 to your damage roll, using your proficiency.

Design notes: We felt Well-Connected didn’t cover the case where you are already in your favorite town or environment. For Contacts Everywhere, a bag of gold shows more ressources available. The damage from the sniper should reflect your level: it can’t be the same at level 5 and level 10, so mirroring your own Proficiency feels you have access to better shooters and better equipments. As for the help that provides a +3, we like to play it as a Flashback if the help was given before the scene, by planting an item or corrupting a NPC for instance.