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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I am a bit surprised by the premise. Indeed D&D misses a good faction play, but it's one RPG among thousands of others.

Many if not most RPG do have faction/reputation mechanics. Vampire or L5R comes immediately to my mind. Playing any kind of cyberpunk game involve a form of faction as you need to manage not being arrested by cops or corpo, if you move to the 2010's Eclipse phase has this pretty interesting reputation economics, and then Blade in the dark came with fun faction/downtime rule at the point for some players it's mostly a faction management game