Factions, groups and relationships
A game is a web of loyalties: the queen's guard, a hidden circle, a band of travellers, a sister who is also a rival. Larpinq keeps factions, player groups and relationships between characters, and shows them on the character page.
Factions and groups
Open Characters, then Factions. There are two kinds:
- Faction: run by game masters. Only game masters create a faction and place characters in it.
- Group: run by players. A player creates a group with one of their own characters as Leader.
Each has a Visibility. An open faction or group is found by everyone who plays. A secret one is found only by game masters and by its leader. A member of a secret faction sees its name on their own character, and nothing else about it.
Joining a group
A membership has a Role (leader or member) and a Status that moves with the buttons on the membership page:
| From | To | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Requested | Active or declined | The group's leader |
| Requested | Left | The player who asked |
| Invited | Active or declined | The player of the invited character |
| Invited | Removed | The group's leader |
| Active | Left | The player of the member |
| Active | Removed | The group's leader |
A player asks to join with one of their own characters; the leader invites. Nobody but a game master makes a character an active member directly. A membership stays with its faction and character: to change group, leave and ask again. Game masters can do all of this for any faction or group.
Relationships
Open a character. Relationships lists the relationships the character names, and Named by others lists the ones that name it. A relationship has a Kind (family, ally, rival, romance, enemy, mentor or other), a Description and Known to:
- Game masters: only game masters read it. Only game masters record these.
- Owners: game masters and the players of both characters read it. A player records these from their own character.
OpenRegister applies these rules to every way of reading, so a secret faction or a game master's relationship never reaches a player through a list, the API or an export.
Next: open Factions and add the first faction of your world.