Comment on “Background Recklessness”

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Apropos of the character generator, if not this table in particular: you had a result on the 2012 table which I stole with relish: "Character has been made a member of the Illuminati."

Lo and behold, the very-high-stats-across-the-board ranger in my current party got that result. I'm treating it as a juicy bonus sage study in which he earns points at the slow rate (d4-3) and have written up abilities such as "Attend Council*", "Recruit Agents" (specially-obtained hirelings sworn to serve a single Illuminatus), and later on in the study, "Ascend to Council," "Induct Illuminatus", "Recruit Worthy Agent" (someone in a high position - guildmaster, minor noble), "Manipulate Politics" (get an agent, or yourself, placed into an important position with less or none of the usual campaigning or favors...)

I need to do some more looking into the historical Illuminati, and into conspiracy theories and such, as well as reread your Cabal/Conspiracy sage study and abilities.

How would you run it?

* still noodling on the name of the Illuminati 'meetings'.

Originally posted at https://tao-dnd.blogspot.com/2022/06/background-recklessness.html?showComment=1654551900080#c9132028425123772213