[quote=@XxFellsingxX] I have been wondering about when I should bring up that particular mechanic. But yes, at any point, feel free to bring up if your dragon has fulfilled a clutchmate's virtue or if someone else's character has fulfilled your virtue, and I'll add a gem to your character's tracker. [/quote] Well, I was wondering about something myself. Here's the passage you gave us about Friendship Gems. There are two implications here that I'm uncertain about since we're on the subject. Idk if we've had these answered or not, but I don't remember it. xD [quote]Each friendship gem represents a moment when another character exemplified your virtue (detailed in the CS section) and earned your trust. These are represented by physical tokens that you are meant to pass to another player when their character displays the virtue you hold, regardless of the physical distance between your characters.[/quote] My first question is, these are supposed to be physical tokens in the actual game, right? Does that mean there's a hard cap on how many can be given out to other players? In a physical version of the game, there would only be so many physical items to pass around, so it may not have been mentioned in the rules specifically. I forget if we mentioned a limit on them or not earlier. I can't seem to find it if we did, though. And I don't see a limit actually mentioned anywhere, though for whatever reason, I had the number 3 stuck in my head. Though that might have just been because we had three Fellowships at the end of our CS. The second question is that it says that they represent earned trust. I know these are obviously just player mechanics and not something characters are actually giving around. But I was under the impression that the characters had to know that the other actually did something of note to earn that trust from them before a gem would get passed. I just figured the distance part just meant that the player could give a gem even if the character found out while separated from the other. Here's what I mean: [hider=An Example]Let's say Skobeloff and Stargaze were alone somewhere because the party got split. They get approached by a villainous character of some sort, some kind of big, dangerous dragon. Danger dragon then strikes or mocks Stargaze or something like that. Skobeloff intervenes, putting himself between Stargaze and the scary, danger dragon to support Stargaze.[/hider] That would be an obvious perfect exemplification of Shieldwing's virtue. So by the current ruling, I could hand over a Gem here. However, the way I THOUGHT it would work since gems are supposed to represent an earned trust between the characters would be like this: [hider=Continued Example]After Skobeloff's intervention, Stargaze is able to escape, and flees to go get the others. She tells Fellwing and Shieldwing once she finds them about Skobeloff and what happened.[/hider] In this scenario, Shieldwing would not be anywhere near Skobeloff, but he learned about Skobeloff's actions through another means. Despite the distance between the two, I would give away the Gem because his trust in Skobeloff would deepen when he hears what he did. If that's how it functions, Shieldwing would need to know about the actions he took. And if he does, then I have a caveat to this gem getting passed at this point: Shieldwing would not think Skobeloff going off on his own is brave, he thinks it was stupid (quick side note, I feel it's important to say that these are Shieldwing's thoughts not mine xD). I wasn't around when the separation actually happened, so I can't exactly object when I wasn't here to play the scene out. So I just kinda play it off like Shieldwing didn't want to start an argument with his clutchmates in front of Garrok, so he didn't object as hard as he normally would have. He also knew that he probably wasn't going to be able to convince Skobeloff to stay, and wanted to make it seem like he was a good leader in front of Garrok as well, so he gave it his okay. But he never approved of it, and deep down, he actually finds it kind of embarrassing that Skobeloff would take charge like that and make such a decision without really even talking to the clutch about it. Especially without getting Shieldwing's okay. Since he considers himself the clutch's leader (even though he hasn't been formally appointed the position), he was a bit embarrassed that his leadership kinda got undermined. xD HOWEVER. His actions while he was THERE, in helping the dragons that were in trouble? With all the stealth and acting and such? THAT was definitely an act of bravery that Shieldwing would approve of that would deepen his trust. So on that front, it all just depends on what specifically triggers the passing of a gem.