Download [EXCLUSIVE] Factions Tabs
Leah Wibberley
These factions have been removed from the game entirely. The fate of these factions as a whole are not known. There has been no recorded mention of them by Landfall on these factions making a potential return.
Problem is, keeping in-depth tabs of too many of these smaller factions is difficult and increases in difficulty the more factions you add into the mix, even before you add in fantastical elements like spellbooks and magical creatures.
Each faction in this web of relations and power have neighbors. Two close or adjacent neighbors that function as allies, and two far or opposed neighbors that function as enemies. In this example here, Faction A is allied to Factions B and Faction E; Faction A is firmly opposed to / at war-with Factions D and C. This lets you display all the important factions in one image as well as how they interact in the setting.
Factions are obvious means of illustrating this depth. Guilds, gangs, colleges and secret societies are all real social groups that exist in real life and offer promises of membership, antagonism and more. If you\u2019re simulating an interesting and dramatic world these factions probably have opinions of the other factions in this world, some allies and some enemies.
My answer is to put 5 factions in your game. Five really well-thought-out, fleshed out and dynamic factions that are important to what your players want to do, and relevant to any overarching plot. I arrived at 5 because it\u2019s a much more complex web than only 3, and because they can be arranged on a star. Look:
This doesn\u2019t mean every faction that exists in your setting needs to be put on a map and webbed-together, nor that these five factions are the only ones around. There could be a dozen little different groups in your fantasy world: goblin tribes, scholarly groups, mercenary companies and more that are all either a) too small to matter compared to \u201Cthe big five\u201D and b) their influence is either diminished or in realms beyond the scope of play. Going too lost in that sauce gets you something like the type map from modern Pok\u00E9mon games that are borderline un-parsable:
This method or process of five important factions can be used for both small-scale and large-scale purposes. It\u2019s how I created the five important factions for the fantasy metropolis game I\u2019m running at my table, but also in the future I think I will absolutely follow this model when creating established settings in TTRPG products.
My fantasy metropolis is called Talzur, City by the Sea and center of the known world. It exists on a vast trade network of sea lanes and overland routes across farmland and savanna, and anything or anyone from anywhere can be found trawling its streets. There\u2019s adventure abound in the sea-serpent filled waves, deadly politics being debated in the city\u2019s senate halls and wars for dominance between two sea-faring empires on either side of that great expanse. Yet, our heroes find themselves fighting at street level clearing out basements full of rats in the greatest city in this - or any - age. Here are the five factions most important to street-level rogues:
And these five aren\u2019t the only factions that exist in Talzur. There\u2019s a whole political system of councilors and local parties within the city. There\u2019s the Hermetic Brotherhood of Alazhar, the cults of Ioun and The Rat God, lodges of riflemen and athletes and troupes of performers who re-enact ancient battles in old amphitheaters\u2026.but they\u2019re in the background. I can describe their names and what they\u2019re doing but they\u2019re not important to a) the player\u2019s interest in this ttrpg campaign and b) not important to the plot ticking in the background. You can put as many factions as you like in your setting, but only bring five of them into life to create a living and breathing fictional world.
I am trying to create a mission using the Cup Russian faction however I cannot Get it to work. I place under the "Overide factions" tab CUP_O_RU - in the Military commander and military placement tabs and under the drop down boxes i have left the faction to none. But when i start the mission i get errors coming up and they spawn as OPfor soldiers. This must be something silly i am doing wrong but i just cannot figure it out.
I got it working!! The weirdest of things. The rectangular box which the russians were supposed to spawn in I put in as Opfor red. By changing the colour to normal red the Russian factions now spawn in correctly,.
A defensive faction that is led by a powerful state is a faction formed by a powerful state, often a superpower, meant to protect weaker states. These factions are useful to small countries to get easy protection by the faction leader, and useful to the faction leader to assert influence over its faction members.
A defensive faction ran by multiple small states is meant to combine the power of multiple weak or equally powerful states to protect from a greater threat, such as superpowers, other factions, or aggressors.
An expansionist faction is a faction in which multiple aggressive states seeking to expand will cooperate to prevent intervention from more powerful nations or defensive factions. Expansionist factions are also made to keep expanding members from conflicting with each other over spheres of interests.
Factions are the main source of NPC interactions in-game. They are organisations whose members may appear as visitors, traders, guests, or raiders depending on the faction's type and relationship with the player's faction, or in their own faction bases around the map. For most factions, the relationship between them and the player can vary depending on the actions the player takes. This can result in allies sending reinforcements or trade caravans, or new enemies to raid you. Other factions are permanently hostile and exist only to send attacks.
Fierce tribes always start off hostile towards your colonists, as well as to all other factions. This type of faction has a natural goodwill range from -100 to -80. If goodwill is over -80, it will fall by 0.4 per day. If goodwill is under -100, it will rise by 0.2.
Rough outlander unions always start off hostile towards your colonists, as well as all other factions. This type of faction has a natural goodwill range from -100 to -80. If goodwill is over -80, it will fall by 0.4 per day. If goodwill is under -100, it will rise by 0.2.
Factions have many bases generated when the world is created, which can be traveled to by forming a caravan or launching transport pods. Going to neutral or friendly factions will initiate a trade. Sending them to a hostile faction will start an assault on that base, which can be destroyed once the enemy flees. Then you have 24 hours to collect all the items you want before a caravan is automatically created to leave.
In RimWorld, one of the key gameplay features is the raids by enemy factions. When a new world is generated, various factions within the world are also added. These factions have varying relationships with your colony, and all of them may be your enemy from the start. As time progresses and your colony accumulates more wealth and grows larger, it may be a good idea to attempt to improve these relationships to even eventually have an ally to call upon in the worst of times.
There are three levels of relations that you can be with others; hostile, neutral and ally. Different types of factions (e.g. outlander, gentle tribal, savage tribal, etc.) have different default levels, and any changed relations will tend to, slowly, gravitate back toward that default. This means that you not only need to change the goodwill between your colonists and another faction to change your status with that faction, but you must then also maintain it if you wish to continue with that newfound status (and some factions are harder than others to maintain).
To turn a hostile faction neutral, you must increase goodwill above 0. For a neutral faction to turn hostile, goodwill must decrease below -75. To make a neutral faction your ally, you must increase goodwill above 75, in which case they will remain allies until it reaches 0. The maximum goodwill possible is +100. Note that all Savage tribes and Pirates factions have their Goodwill locked at -100, so any gestures to improve relations are wasted; they will remain "Hostile" throughout the game, immune to your best efforts.
With Biotech pawns belonging to a type of faction have different chances to be of a certain Xenotype. Pawns coming from Tribes, and from every "Xenotype"-Faction except for the Waster pirates always belong to just one Xenotype (Tribes to the Baseliner Xenotype, and the other factions to their respective xenotypes), while the pawns from the other factions are more varied.
In multiplayer games, Factions help organize players into cooperative groups, where only a select group of people can use certain shared grids. In singleplayer games, factions are relevant when interacting with NPCs.
Faction membership carries with it a reputation which defines relationships with other players or NPCs as hostile, neutral, or friendly. If there are PCU limits imposed, they are typically split among factions and their members.
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