Downtime Activity: Religious Service

{
  "name": "Downtime Activity: Religious Service",
  "page": 131,
  "type": "entries",
  "__prop": "variantrule",
  "source": "XGE",
  "entries": [
    "Characters with a religious bent might want to spend downtime in service to a temple, either by attending rites or by proselytizing in the community. Someone who undertakes this activity has a chance of winning the favor of the temple's leaders.",
    {
      "name": "Resources",
      "type": "entries",
      "entries": [
        "Performing religious service requires access to, and often attendance at, a temple whose beliefs and ethos align with the character's. If such a place is available, the activity takes one workweek of time but involves no gold piece expenditure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Resolution",
      "type": "entries",
      "entries": [
        "At the end of the required time, the character chooses to make either an Intelligence ({@skill Religion}) check or a Charisma ({@skill Persuasion}) check. The total of the check determines the benefits of service, as shown on the Religious Service table.",
        {
          "rows": [
            [
              "1–10",
              "No effect. Your efforts fail to make a lasting impression."
            ],
            [
              "11–20",
              "You earn one favor."
            ],
            [
              "21+",
              "You earn two favors."
            ]
          ],
          "type": "table",
          "caption": "Religious Service",
          "colLabels": [
            "Check Total",
            "Result"
          ],
          "colStyles": [
            "col-2 text-center",
            "col-10"
          ]
        },
        "A favor, in broad terms, is a promise of future assistance from a representative of the temple. It can be expended to ask the temple for help in dealing with a specific problem, for general political or social support, or to reduce the cost of cleric spellcasting by 50 percent. A favor could also take the form of a deity's intervention, such as an omen, a vision, or a minor miracle provided at a key moment. This latter sort of favor is expended by the DM, who also determines its nature.",
        "Favors earned need not be expended immediately, but only a certain number can be stored up. A character can have a maximum number of unused favors equal to 1 + the character's Charisma modifier (minimum of one unused favor)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Complications",
      "type": "entries",
      "entries": [
        "Temples can be labyrinths of political and social scheming. Even the best-intentioned sect can fall prone to rivalries. A character who serves a temple risks becoming embroiled in such struggles. Every workweek spent in religious service brings a {@chance 10} chance of a complication, examples of which are on the Religious Service Complications table.",
        {
          "rows": [
            [
              "1",
              "You have offended a priest through your words or actions.*"
            ],
            [
              "2",
              "Blasphemy is still blasphemy, even if you did it by accident."
            ],
            [
              "3",
              "A secret sect in the temple offers you membership."
            ],
            [
              "4",
              "Another temple tries to recruit you as a spy.*"
            ],
            [
              "5",
              "The temple elders implore you to take up a holy quest."
            ],
            [
              "6",
              "You accidentally discover that an important person in the temple is a fiend worshiper."
            ]
          ],
          "type": "table",
          "caption": "Religious Service Complications",
          "colLabels": [
            "d6",
            "Complication"
          ],
          "colStyles": [
            "col-2 text-center",
            "col-10"
          ],
          "footnotes": [
            "*Might involve a rival"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "ruleType": "VO"
}