I have started my trip down the rabbit hole

[Barnes]

I think something like this “reputation” framework would be ideal for your purposes. Thought I’d crosslink with a heads-up in-thread, like to see it here it go:

Reputation in game

The faction/reputation system is kinda half-assed implemented already, kinda. There is a community value that indicates which NPCs help each other, with community -1 I believe being neutral (non-hostile unless attacked). I think this value also determines which ones attack each other as well. I dunno how much work it would be to have a table tie into this community id number and tie that to each character (probably added to the table the character values are apart of), and then have events rai…