Close Friendships

How Did They Meet? (d6)
What Have They Done Together? (d8)
What Tie Harmonizes Their Differences? (d10)
How Old is the Relationship? (d4)
What Threatens to Divide Them? (d12)
Things Between Friends (d20)

Subcharts

How Did They Meet? (d6)

d6 How Did They Meet?

1

They’re relatives or associated by family

2

One did important work for the other

3

They shared a mutual hobby or interest

4

One rescued the other from a peril

5

They shared in a successful plan or scheme

6

They’re in similar lines of work

What Have They Done Together? (d8)

d8 What Have They Done Together?

1

They’ve enjoyed socializing together

2

They’ve shared in a profitable crime

3

They covered up a serious mistake one made

4

They’ve married each others’ relatives

5

They overcome a shared foe together

6

They made money together somehow

7

They got out of a dangerous situation together

8

They improved their social standing together

What Tie Harmonizes Their Differences? (d10)

d10 What Tie Harmonizes Their Differences?

1

A shared appetite for money and luxury

2

Mutual or complementary carnal hungers

3

Very compatible personalities

4

Respect and admiration for each other

5

Trust in each others’ judgment

6

Confidence in each others’ trustworthiness

7

They both have fatal blackmail on the other

8

An artistic sensibility only they fully share

9

Blood ties or familial bonds between them

10

Shared love for a particular cause or faith

How Old is the Relationship? (d4)

d4 How Old is the Relationship?

1

It’s a very new one between them

2

They’ve spent some time together

3

They’re old friends or allies

4

They’ve been friends since early youth

What Threatens to Divide Them? (d12)

d12 What Threatens to Divide Them?

1

They both want the same man or woman

2

One of them has erred, threatening both

3

One has something the other direly wants

4

One feels painfully inferior about something

5

Their associates disapprove of the relation

6

A religious dispute lingers between them

7

One owes the other a large sum of money

8

One is failing to provide needed help

9

One of them is wooing the other’s spouse

10

They want the same office, title, or role

11

One has become useless to the other lately

12

A misunderstanding has festered of late

Things Between Friends (d20)

d20 Things Between Friends

1

They amiably share a mistress

2

They have a getaway they both favor

3

One has a secret the other would detest

4

One hides some contraband for the other

5

Their children are wedded

6

They both have stakes in a business

7

Staff or servants are traded between them

8

One watches out for useful help for the other

9

They have regular shared meals and drinks

10

They have a friendly rivalry about something

11

They share ownership of a piece of property

12

One covers up a vice of the other

13

They often gamble things between them

14

They share illicit or delicate books or art

15

They both make use of the same mage’s help

16

They go to the same temple regularly

17

They go hunting together often

18

They throw celebrations for each other’s wins

19

They patronize the same artists or performers

20

They both resent the same group or faith