Rifts Contacts

I am hoping as a GM to use Rifts Contacts Karma to help players organize their interactions with NPCs and try to build on them.

Characters get contacts karma to buy contacts.
Contacts are part friend part business partner.
They represent someone the character genuinely likes and who is genuinely liked by the character, in his circle of NPC friends outside the other player characters in the group.

MA/2+PB/2+ Level = Rifts Contacts Karma


Contacts have 2 ratings, Loyalty and Connections.  Contacts start at 1/1 and cost 2 points.  Contacts can have up to a level 6 bonus but never more than 7 points between loyalty and connections.

Each Level of Connections gives a +5% bonus to the skill the contact helps with.

Each Level of Loyalty gives a +5% bonus to thwart attempts to corrupt the contact against the character, as well as one favor per year, be it helping directly with a skill giving the 5%/lvl connections bonus or helping take out some bad guys.


Connections start at 1/1 and can have their stats improved through in character actions like bribes, heroic saving of the contact and or contacts family, and so on.

Contacts have a Name, Region, and the two ratings, so Bubba the Burbs Mechanic 1/1 for an example.


Example archetypes:

Mechanic - +5% to vehicle related skills, find contraband for vehicle parts
Doctor - +5% to medical related skills find contraband for medical cyberware
Hacker - +5% to computer skills, hacking find contraband and fencing of data
Fence
Banker+5% to money/law skills, currency trading, precious metal trading
Policeman +5% to crime fighting skills, favoritism in policed lands
Federation of Magic Lord +5% to magic skills, favoritism in fom lands
CS Soldier+5% to tech skills, favoritism in cs lands
Thug +5% to crime skills, favoritism in turf
Barflies
Bums

Coming up soon...Rifts Fixing

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Sources:
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/27/swtor-bounty-contract-week-henchman-bounty-guide/#2

http://denver.wikidot.com/hr:general-contacts-and-fixing

http://hardcoregamemode.blogspot.com/2014/07/shadowrun-5th-edition-character.html

http://ingomonk.droppages.com/Creating+a+Shadowrunner/Sample+Contacts