Legate of the Bluff [General]

Prerequisites: Legate level 3rd, Cha 12.

Benefit: Once per day, you may make a DC 10 Gather Information check to find a resident of your district who owes you a lesser favor, and a DC 10 Diplomacy check to convince him to repay the lesser favor without having to resort to harsher measures. The DM is the final arbiter of who does and does not owe you favors. Lesser favors include: a day of public service, information about the doings of one person, an agreement to attend the Dark God's rituals on a date determined by you, or an offering of food/items/equipment no greater than your needs for one week.

A number of times per month equal to your Charisma modifier, you may make a DC 25 Gather Information check to find a resident of your district who owes you a greater favor, and a DC 25 Diplomacy check to convince him to repay the greater favor without having to resort to harsher measures. The DM is the final arbiter of who does and does not owe you favors. Greater favors include: one week of public service, an offering of food/items/equipment no greater than your needs for one month, long-term information (one year or longer) about one person of your choosing, or the betrayal of a friend.

Special: When you select this feat you must select one ward in Baden's Bluff. In order to maintain your ability to call on lesser favors, you must spend at least 10 hours per week helping the ward's residents; additionally, you must use half of your 0-level and 1st-level spells each day assisting residents. There is a 25% chance each day that you must use one additional spell of a randomly determined level to assist your residents. Finally, in order to maintain your ability to call on greater favors, you must spend three full days each month helping residents, using up all of your available spells for those days except one for each level.

If you fail to perform either duty, the DCs to find residents who owe you favors and to convince them to repay you increase by +10 per week missed (for lesser favors) until the time and effort are made up.

Source: Under the Shadow, p. 59