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LFG Interest Check: Underworld Major Faction Run

If an underworld faction were to go major, which flavor would taste best?

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Amara Zambrano

V A I N G L O R Y
Amara Zambrano
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Arcadian said:
I’m not unwilling to be The Underworld, but I’m familiar with the recurring issue that sort of faction runs into: splintering.

On paper, a big criminal faction who’s made of smaller criminal factions always splinters because folks decide to take a smaller canon organization and strike out on their own. Or, people only RP within the sub-organizations they like anyway and we have weird isolated pockets within the larger community.

If there’s a way to avoid that, I’m all ears. That’s my only gripe about The Underworld as a concept.
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I only just noticed this thread now (busy holiday weekend for me), but there's canon/legends criminal collectives that blend together each of the big-name criminal organizations in the same way you suggested in your earlier posts (collecting other groups as you go). The Shadow Collective was Darth Maul's underworld answer to Palpatine and the Empire, perhaps you could brand yourselves the spiritual successor to the idea (not necessarily a literal one, but borrow the concept and have each group represented by their leadership as people grow interested in the various individual groups - or something else entirely).
 
Major Faction

Kalak the Raykkan

Mold
Kalak the Raykkan
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It's definitely the case that when you try and go Major as a collection of crime groups, that sooner or latter some of the sub groups decide to take their ball and leave. That has happened in practically every crime major faction that housed a collection of groups instead of being focused around a single identity.

Because that is the issue. More often than not these sub-groups don't feel part of the bigger major faction. They are their own group first while wanting to take advantage of the Major Faction perks.

If you can figure out a way to make every sub-group feel invested in the larger Major Faction that would be pretty nice. The most successful crime Major Factions were things like the Red Ravens, the Black Sun... really Major Factions centering around one crime gang instead of trying to house every canonical crime group.

Which is tempting but again, you can run into a lot of issue with splintering and such.
 

Mr. Pig

Oink
Mr. Pig
Here's a thought: Book of Boba Fett introduced the Gottras and the role of the Daimyo. What if we leaned into that a bit, so that whichever crime organization that holds the title of, say, Shogun, is the sort of Syndicate at the top at the moment? It would allow us to rotate through whomever the dominant faction is at the moment while keeping the Underworld nominally united in the map game through lesser activity periods.

That said, I think the Underworld would benefit from some more specialized mechanics that play differently from the standard map game, but that's opening a can of development worms I doubt Tefka is eager to handle.
 
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Jerec Asyr

Quekko's Choice Ship Emporium
Jerec Asyr
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Come to think of it, there's Mandate that could be a neat gimmick for this, something new and destabilizing:


Wild Magic
"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design." -Richard Dawkins
Strength: Each time this Major Faction submits a Map Update, they may make a request in their update to have the SWRP Staff Administrator add or remove a hex from any Major Faction on the map, to include their own. This is decided by flip of the coin.
Strength: The Major Faction Owner of this Major Faction may determine the success of any PvP thread their Major Faction is involved in by requesting a public flip of a coin, performed by a SWRP Staff Administrator.
Strength: Whenever this Major Faction submits a completed Junction, a SWRP Staff Administrator will flip two coins. If both heads, this Major Faction will receive an extra hex. If both tails, another Major Faction in the Junction will receive an extra hex at the Administrator's discretion. If mismatched, no extra hexes are rewarded.
Weakness: Each time this Major Faction makes a request using the Wild Magic mandate, this Major Faction may lose any number of hexes as determined randomly by the coin flip of an SWRP Staff Administrator. This may only happen a maximum of once per month.
 
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