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For the Palatine Eye, Church of Razmer, and various other Secret Societies, we have the stats written up in Occult Mysteries for fees, obeisance checks, what you can buy with prestige points, etc. This tells us what we need to use that society in a campaign and how to handle it if a player wants to join one.
I was looking for a similar write up for the Pathfinder Society for use in non PFS campaigns. What players can buy with prestige is in the Field Guide, and current Guide to Organized Play, but that is mostly geared towards PFS. If I want other information like what do players need to do to stay in good stead with them, that is lacking.
I am thinking something like the below, please provide your feedback on it:
Requirements:
Initiation Fee: Must be sponsored
Initiation Test: Must successfully complete one scenario/adventure/module
Offerings: Must journal at least one adventure and send it to the venture captain for that area per period
Membership:
Obeisance Check: Bluff, Knowledge (history), Survival, Perception, Disable Device
Service Period: 6 months
Excommunication: 4 consecutive failed Obeisance checks
Tasks:
Same as those detailed in the Fame Events table in the Reputation and Fame section of Ultimate Campaign
Awards:
Same as that in the current Year of the Sky Key Guide to Organized Play, or any in the back of the Pathfinder Society Field Guide.
Why do this?
Well another secret society to join than those that have been written up. And a way to reward them with something besides money.
For the obeisance check, bluff is in all of them, so I kept it. I suppose it represents bluffing your way past the test. I chose knowledge (history), though I suppose it could be (any), but I thought history was more fitting. Survival because it is a useful skill for adventurers, and perception the same. Disable Device since every good Ustalav noble knows the Pathfinders are nothing but grave robbers :)
I am running our players through Ustalav and using Varian Jaggare as a contact to send them on missions, as well as another NPC that is a member of the Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye.
I am offering the player to each join either or both. The Palatine Eye contact would love to have a spy in the Pathfinder Society.
All the characters are neutral and borderline evil, so having fame and prestige as rewards helps me keep them in line. (these are all guys that have played together for decades so.. we are used to this).