I finally convinced someone to switch factions!


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Grand Lodge 2/5

On my worg-riding, Dark Archive-loving hunter (well, more hunter than anything else), I finally convinced someone at the table to swap factions. It only took over a year, but I finally convinced someone. So now as soon as I convince one more NPC to join DA I'll be able to bring along free consumables to aid the party--because Zarta loves me.

This is the first player I know that's switched using another player's faction discount. How often have you guys seen this happen?

5/5 5/55/55/5

I switched to dark archive because I felt bad that the paladin went all palidiny on a dark archives potential recruit (and the characters collecting dust anyway)

Sczarni 5/5 5/55/5 ***

I've convinced NPCs to switch to Sovereign Court, but have not seen a PC switch yet.

Dark Archive 1/5

I managed to convince the daughter of one of the Winter Witch rulers in the North to join the Dark Archive when my lodge ran From Beneath the Ice. NPC, sure. But VERY impressive feat since my character's level 1, and diplomacy was untrained. Especially with my 7 charisma.

Shadow Lodge 1/5

I GM'd for a guy who convinced another player to join his faction. It was pretty impressive.

Lantern Lodge 5/5

My characters that don't have particularly strong ties to their faction have switched every time (currently twice) anyone has asked.

My two or three characters with strong ties to their faction have declined when asked, however.

Grand Lodge 4/5

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My ranger doesn't have any strong faction ties. I'm hoping that someone will convince her to switch during this PbP gameday.

The Exchange 5/5

I have two that have switched (& paid for it even though they had free changes available)... Both wanted to change, so went looking for someone to recruit them.

Dark Archive 3/5

I convinced a fellow player character to switch to the Dark Archive from the Grand Lodge. The character really did belong in the Archive.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden

I've seen people switch from Liberty's Edge to Grand Lodge on account of the much cooler GL faction card, and pay the prestige basically as a gift to allow a GL player to credit his card for it.

Dark Archive 1/5

Well, the Grand Lodge faction card does look far easier to fill then the Liberty's Edge one. Dark Archive has some hard ones too. I got lucky and could get credit for recovering a named minor artifact in my first PFS scenario.

Sovereign Court 5/5 RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

Daniel Myhre wrote:
I managed to convince the daughter of one of the Winter Witch rulers in the North to join the Dark Archive when my lodge ran From Beneath the Ice. NPC, sure. But VERY impressive feat since my character's level 1, and diplomacy was untrained. Especially with my 7 charisma.

I convinced her to switch to Soverign court. Best bit of all? My PC is a half-snowcaster elf Jadwiga who's the legacy charater for my Eot10 seeker, who was herself a winter witch. :-)

Silver Crusade

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I convinced someone to change to Sovereign Court...

Before they added the faction cards *sobs*

3/5

I imagine you might see more PCs convinced to switch if it didn't cost as much as it potentially did.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden

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I'm glad they didn't repeat that goal on the S7 cards.

Grand Lodge 2/5

Ascalaphus wrote:
I'm glad they didn't repeat that goal on the S7 cards.

I know. The only reason I even asked is because I have that card almost entirely filled out and it's just because a thing I shout out after every session. I've started going into more detail about it. We were at a party in this session and I went on about how droll this party was compared to those that Zarta throws and how she gives out the best boons to her faction members.

It also has one of the easier sets of goals to check off and really does have the best rewards (though the season 7 2-goal reward is far inferior to the season 6 2-goal reward).

4/5 5/55/55/5 *** Venture-Lieutenant, Minnesota—Minneapolis

Congrats! That was certainly one of the more difficult ones to fill.

The Exchange 5/5

The Fourth Horseman wrote:
I imagine you might see more PCs convinced to switch if it didn't cost as much as it potentially did.

or if the cost could be paid by the Sponsor rather than the person switching (or even partly paid by them).

Which would even make some sense. I'm recruiting you into my faction. That is putting my reputation on the line - it should reflect on my Prestige...

Grand Lodge 2/5

nosig wrote:
The Fourth Horseman wrote:
I imagine you might see more PCs convinced to switch if it didn't cost as much as it potentially did.

or if the cost could be paid by the Sponsor rather than the person switching (or even partly paid by them).

Which would even make some sense. I'm recruiting you into my faction. That is putting my reputation on the line - it should reflect on my Prestige...

I would've been totally ok with that.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden

Yeah, I've sunk 14pp into vanities to get my Exchange card up and running. I'd have done the same for my SovCo and Darkive characters.

The Exchange 5/5

so maybe next year we will see more "recruiter" goals, only these will have the recruiter playing part (or all) of the cost.

Silver Crusade

I agree that having the recruiter pay the cost is better.

The main group that I could see being swayed by recruitment offers, at least from what I have gathered from our local PFS scene, would be newer players that either A. just defaulted to Grand Lodge b/c they didn't know the factions or B. find out that the faction they picked wasn't quite what they were expecting. Forcing new players to spend extra prestige, especially when they are--by nature--more likely to need that prestige for raise dead, is a bad idea imo.

Sovereign Court 4/5 5/5 ** Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden

It's pretty unattractive to convert; you lose almost everything gained from a previous faction. And given that the card doesn't want converts below level 3, there likely to be some losses and people will have just gotten their rebuilding and faction switching done last level.

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