Reputation

This perk provides a character with a reputation that’s known far and wide. Unlike the Celebrity, perk, which indicates a positive reaction due to the influence of a character’s Personality, the Reputation perk helps a character by making others fearful of or impressed by his supposed accomplishments. In game terms, this perk provides a situation die bonus whenever the character attempts to use certain encounter skills. The player and the Gamemaster need to work out just what the character’s reputation is, and which encounter skills it provides a bonus to.

As a character’s achievement level improves, he becomes better able to take advantage of his reputation: At level 5, the base situation die for any Reputation perk check becomes -d4; at level 10 it becomes -d6; and at level 15 it becomes -d8.