New Tradeskillz?

[Master Artemis]

Instead of Necroing a thread i decided to make a new one.  One trade skill that was put to an idea that i think we could talk about is Trade: Emissary.


Ideas!

Emissary: Minor trade, Has the ability to represent or join more than one faction.  Only one faction xp can be gained per month and has to represent the faction one at a time.  They would also have a minor role in the faction but acts as a Mardrun mouthpiece or something.  It'll also be good for those that don't want to be married to one faction or even wants to have the autonomy of being factionless or something.  

[Aladrin Greywood]

I like this idea a lot. My ONLY concern is that we would end up with a few edgy players using it as an excuse to spy on and cause havoc by being a part of multiple boards. This might lead to a lot of people making weird decisions about a player rather than a character. Metagaming, if you will.

That said, I think it's a neat concept. Beyond the joining of factions, what else could you see them doing? Maybe something along the lines of being able to "off screen" set up trade between factions? Or between factions and city states?

[Master Artemis]

That's an excellent question. It CAN be used to spy but that just means the faction can just not accept that character into the faction. Its the same thing if I created 2 or 3 characters each representing a different faction. Effectively, id have backdoor access to 3 faction forums. Of course this can get wild as for example you could have 3 characters take Emissary and see 6 factions of info.

So Emissary should have a 1 per player limitation. That player can be booted from the faction at anytime. I actually don't think an emissary should have access to the Forums of that faction. Just to limit metagaming.
Aside from faction joining and being able to use that factions global resources (like the bank or blacksmith) im not sure what else off hand. Emissary was an idea brought about by another player once before.

[blrich]

Would this work etter if it were similar to companion? Perhaps give a version of clout, allow the pc to count as an org member for belt flag exp at an event (the pc would have to be given and wear the flag) but would not count towards org members for org size and maintenance, maybe one or two other buffs? And requiring lore: politics and an additional lore aligning with the faction foci of the org they would work for? That way there aren't just transient pcs hopping around different second orgs and would more align with a trade concept? Perhaps fold in some things in from trade: soldier?

[Master Artemis]

That would be really good!!