20: FOUNDATION
The Neptune Foundation was the only existing Allegiance that I wrote up for the Trinity Continuum modern setting, an extrapolation by Ian Watson from existing groups in the Trinity Universe. Foundations are, in this definition, large charitable organisations that fund other charity initiatives as well as their own. Foundation also connotes something to build on, and also something that’s well established. In fiction there’s Asimov’s Foundation which is a very militant archiving group, but also the Foundation for Law And Government from Knight Rider which being a non-governmental crimefighting group just really wanted its initials to spell out FLAG. So they became a big international aid group with a sideline in active involvement for player characters to into danger Thunderbirds style.
Bonus round:
Peace - Peace mostly exists in RPGs to be disrupted, or at best preserved through heroic action. But there are “slice of life” games as well, and almost any game can have downtime “breather” episodes. Sometimes these are planned often after a big arc, and sometimes players make them happen.
Lineage - I like legacy heroes, though more by passing the torch than by birthright.
Ally - NPC allies are more likely to be trusted when they’re points in character backgrounds.
Runeslinger on Ally
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