>It seems somewhat circular to me, actually -
> perhaps you don't consider a group "formal" until it has a
guardian?
That's my view. Loose political factions don't have guardians or rituals. Herobands do.
> How do you enumerate these, Jeff? Do you put all of the Guardian
abilities
> on every character who has them? Or just list the affiliation?
I usually list the affiliation, although I am increasing inclined to put the Guardian abilities on every charcter who has them. Of course that means I need to come up with the bloodline guardians (ie. ancestors) and so on. When my players participate in formal clan raids or wars, they've gotten the bonuses.
> I guess that part of my confusion is that I rarely see any
examples that
> list heroband affiliations at all, much less abilities that one
draws from
> them.
In many campaigns, the players have left their traditional hearths and villages, and so they would belong to less herobands. Many prominent NPCs are written in broad brush strokes and so the fact that they have a bloodline bonus (for whatever the ancestors help with) is pretty irrelevant.
>Or is
> putting the relationship in that column all the indicator one
needs?
That's usually been my experience. My characters have lots of relationships.
Jeff
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