Kinships group characters together into organizations — guilds, noble houses, factions, churches, families, mercenary companies, anything with members and a structure. A kinship can hold ranked members, a shared treasury and cache of items, custom stats, a reputation log, and descriptions players and GMs build out together. Use it as a roleplay vessel, a logistical tool, or both.

Where to find it

In your campaign's left navigation, click Kinships. The index lists every kinship you can see, grouped into folder tabs if any folders exist, with a search bar at the top to filter by name, type, or location.

Who can create and manage kinships

Kinship Keepers (a campaign admin role) and Game Masters can create kinships, manage folders, and edit any kinship. Once a kinship has an owner — a player character assigned to it — that owner gets the same management rights over their kinship. Other players can view any kinship that isn't marked secret, and ranked members get extra privileges like depositing into the vault. (Kinship Keeper is assigned like other admin roles — see Party Info.)

The sections below cover creating and editing a kinship, the kinship profile (including ranks, members, and reputation), wealth and the cache, connections, and folders.

Chronica kinships main screen

Click the green "New Kinship" button at the top of the Kinships page to create one, or the "Edit" button on a kinship card or profile to change it. The form is organized into a few sections — fill in only what your game needs.

Main Settings

Give the kinship a Name (for example The Adams Family, Fire Squadron, or Chess Club). Game Masters also see a Folder dropdown to file the kinship away and a Secret? toggle that hides it from players entirely.

Kinship Owner

Assign a player character as the Kinship Owner. This is significant: the owner gets admin control over the kinship (the same edit rights a GM has), is given a permanent Kinship Owner master rank, and unlocks the kinship's wealth and cache features. If you later remove the owner, that owner rank is deleted, so the form warns you before you do.

Keep Ranking Members Private?

When set to yes, the Ranking Members tab is hidden from anyone who isn't a GM, Kinship Keeper, or a ranking member of the kinship — useful when membership itself is sensitive.

Kinship Ranks: Additional Features

These three options need at least one rank that isn't the Owner rank:

• Open Enrollment? — lets players join the kinship with their own characters without waiting to be added; the character drops in at the lowest available rank. A "Join Kinship" button then appears on the profile. (Requires at least one rank, or the button won't show.)
• Track Reputation? — adds a reputation panel to the profile and a tracking number on the Ranking Members tab, so you can log standing for individual characters within the kinship.
• Reputation Descriptor Override — optionally rename "Reputation" to something else like Renown or Points. Enter a single space to use no descriptor at all.

Additional Visibility Settings

These let you de-clutter a profile by hiding pieces you aren't using:

• Hide Kinship Vault? — hides both the Wealth & Resources and the Kinship Cache boxes. While hidden, no one can deposit or adjust wealth and resources, though an existing cache is still reachable by its direct link.
• Hide Ranks & Ranking Members? — hides the Ranks box and the Ranking Members tab. Any ranks already assigned to characters still appear on those character profiles.

Kinship Stats

If you've created custom kinship stats in the Kinship Stats Admin, they appear here as collapsible panels to fill in (Treasury Tier, Morale, Membership Size, or whatever you track). The Kinship Stats Admin link is available to Kinship Keepers and GMs. Note that stat values can't contain these reserved characters: " , { | }

Content & Details

Add an optional Type (Family, Guild, Church, Faction) and Location for reference, a Description and Notes (both visible to everyone), and — for Game Masters — a Game Master Secrets editor that only GMs can see. Finally, set an Image (a family emblem, guild badge, or religious symbol); upload your own or pick from the Image Library on the Knight, Monarch, and Deity tiers.

Create / edit kinship form

Click "Explore Kinship" on a card to open the profile. The top shows the kinship's image, name, type, and location, with any custom kin stats beside it. Below that are three tabs: Information, Ranking Members, and Connections.

Information tab

This is the overview. It holds the Description, the Kinship Cache and Wealth & Resources boxes, the Ranks panel, an optional Reputation panel, Notes, and GM Secrets. Which boxes appear depends on your visibility settings and on whether you're a ranking member.

Ranks

Ranks define the hierarchy of the kinship and also drive cache permissions (which ranks can reach which containers). In the Ranks panel, owners, Kinship Keepers, and GMs can click "Rank" to add one, giving it a title, an optional description, GM-only secret notes, and an emblem image. The Owner rank is created automatically when you assign an owner and can't be deleted directly — to remove it, edit the kinship and clear the Kinship Owner. Drag the grip handles to reorder ranks. Ranking members and above can click a rank to view its details.

Ranking Members tab

This tab shows the kinship's roster as an org chart — the owner card followed by each rank and the character cards within it. Owners, Kinship Keepers, and GMs can add a rank, edit a rank, or add members (any NPC or player character) to a rank from here. If Keep Ranking Members Private is on, the tab is only visible to ranking members and above; if Hide Ranks & Ranking Members is on, the tab is hidden entirely.

Reputation

When Track Reputation is enabled and the kinship has at least one non-owner rank, a reputation panel lets you log entries against individual characters, each with a value and a note, viewable in the "Entry Log". A character's own player (and GMs) can edit that character's entries. The panel's label follows your Reputation Descriptor Override.

Kinship profile screen

Wealth and cache features are available on premium tiers (Knight, Monarch, and Deity) and require the kinship to have an owner assigned. They give a kinship a shared treasury and an optional store of items.

Wealth & Resources

If your campaign has currencies set up, a Wealth & Resources box shows the kinship's shared denomination wealth and any resources, along with a recent activity log. This is the same unified card used for players, the party, and shops — see Currencies & Wealth for how it works. A few kinship-specific notes:

• Editing the balance — the owner, a Kinship Keeper, or a GM can use "Edit Wealth" and "Edit Resources" to adjust the balance directly.
• Depositing — any ranking member can use the orange "Deposit" button to add to the kinship from their own wealth, or from one of their character ownerships. Deposits cover both currency and resources.
• The full log — owners, Kinship Keepers, and GMs can open the complete, paginated Wealth & Resource Log, which records wealth changes, deposits, resource adjustments, and cache-till activity.

The Kinship Cache

The cache is an inventory attached to the kinship that works like a shop, letting ranking members hold and withdraw a private selection of items and funds. If no cache exists yet, the owner can create one from the cache box. Open it by clicking the cache name. The treasure-chest icon turns green when the cache till is holding funds or resources, and links straight to the till to withdraw them. The cache has its own Cache Till and Stockroom, just like a shop — see Campaign Shops for those.

Container permissions

The cache's one extra trick over a normal shop is per-container, rank-based access. Create containers in the cache, then use "Manage Container Permissions" to choose which ranks can view and withdraw the items inside each one — handy for restricting heirlooms or rare stock to senior ranks. Set up your ranks before sharing the cache, since ranks are what the permissions key off of.

Kinship cache screen

Kinship manage container permissions screen

The Connections tab is for looser ties — patrons, allies, contacts, rivals — characters you want to associate with the kinship without giving them a formal rank. Click "Add Character" to open the connection form.

Pick a Character (NPCs and player characters both appear), set a Title for the relationship (like Leader or Patron), and choose a Preposition so the connection reads naturally on the character's profile — for example "President of Chess Club" or "Enemy of The Rebellion." Add optional Notes to remember how the character fits in. These notes show on both the kinship page and the character's profile. Click "Create Connection" when you're done.

Kinship new connection form modal

Game Masters can organize kinships into folders. Click the blue "Manage Folders" button at the top of the Kinships page, then the green "New Folder" button to add one. Use the green "Edit Folder" button in a row to rename it or change its settings, and drag the grip handle to reorder — the order saves as soon as you drop a row. On the main Kinships page, folders appear as tabs, with an Unsorted tab for any kinship not yet filed away.

A folder marked secret (shown with an eye icon) is hidden from players on the Kinships screen. Note that hiding a folder doesn't fully hide the kinships inside it — to make a kinship truly secret across the campaign, mark that individual kinship secret as well.

Manage kinship folders screen

Create / edit kinship folders modal