None who saw him thought him wise, but all who saw him thought him handsome and fair.
Chrétien of Troyes, Perceval
The ways of acting that the character is good at, as opposed to specific Skills that they are trained in. This is their natural affinity, their tendencies, their problem solving styles that they’re comfortable with1.
You can always act outside of these Reputations, but you lose out on getting the one Reputation die in your Dice Pool when you do so2.
The Fixed Reputations
All characters have the same base 8 reputations.
| Reputation | |
|---|---|
| Careful | act in measured and precise ways |
| Comely | rely on charm and appeal |
| Courtly | do things proprietously |
| Cunning | be smart |
| Spry | be quick of wits and body |
| Stalwart | endure and tough things out |
| Strong | act with athletic might and boldness |
| Subtle | act with guile and subterfuge |
Your Custom Reputation
As well as this, each character gets one free-form reputation to add for themselves. This can be whatever you can dream of3.
Updating Reputations
WIP. I think you start with 2 (plus your custom one) and can adjust them (including adjusting the wording of your custom one) each Winter relatively freely if you have good reason. Later characters may get more due to Legacies or something else of that sort.
Footnotes
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If you’re familiar with Fate Accelerated’s Approaches, this is heavily inspired by that and largely leaning on that concept - this being the style you lean towards - but with a bit of natural talent or training bound into that (a Strong character is good at being bold and forthright, but also physically at least somewhat adept. Maybe that’s why they find that approach so easy, or maybe always looking to that made them that way - either way, it’s intertwined). ↩
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But a weaker pool may be worth the different direction, because how you solve a problem matters in what the result will be. ↩
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But it generally should be more specific than the fixed reputations (if you make it too open ended, it’ll have to be interpreted more narrowly, whereas one that overlaps a lot or is very specific may have a lot of leeway for use to balance it out). ↩