Guild

Frame · Group forms social

A professional community – shared craft, shared knowledge, monopoly and mastery as belonging.

Design question – In your game there is a professional community. What connects the members – shared skill, shared rules, or common enemies from outside?

Reference example – Skyrim: the Thieves Guild and the College of Winterhold, each with its own craft, its own knowledge and its own advancement. Monster Hunter: the hunters’ guild that hands out quests and awards ranks.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Crafting, Teaching, Monopolizing, Regulating

Coherence

Activities: Crafting, Teaching, Monopolizing, Regulating. Mechanisms: Worker Placement (specialized workers), Skill Progression, Area Control (guild territory), Set Collection (masterpieces). Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (monopoly), social order (rank), developmental order (advancement). Ludic Social Structure: asymmetric (different guilds with different abilities); internally hierarchical.