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11 No Good/evil Slider
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33 Earlier Fable games had a morality slider. Do good things and your character grows a halo. Do bad things and you sprout devil horns. That system is gone.
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55 Ralph Fulton was direct about this: "Our version of morality isn't a sliding scale." The new system is local and subjective. Different towns see you differently based on what happened there.
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77 How it Works
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1010 Your reputation is built from your actions, but only the ones that were witnessed by at least one other person. If nobody sees you do something, it does not affect your reputation. Steal from a shop in Bowerstone while nobody is looking and the people of Bowerstone are none the wiser.
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1212 Every NPC has their own worldview. They judge your actions through their own lens. What one NPC considers noble, another might see differently. Fulton described this as "entirely subjective" and "probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today." Even kicking chickens is not objectively good or evil, he said, in a way everybody will agree on.
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1414 Reputation Tags
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1717 Your actions generate reputation tags that form a "word cloud" in each settlement. These labels follow you around:
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1919 Kick chickens in front of people and you become "Chicken Chaser" in that settlementBuy up property and you get tagged as "rich" or "tycoon"Perform heroic deeds and people call you a hero
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2121 These tags are local. Your reputation in Bowerstone can be completely different from your reputation in Bloodstone. The more people who witness a behavior, and the more often you do it, the more prominent that tag becomes.
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23+There is a ceiling on how many of these labels can stick at once. A settlement can hold up to six active reputations for you at any one time, so the picture a town has of you is a handful of your most prominent behaviors there rather than an ever-growing list. Push a new reputation hard enough and it can crowd out one you have stopped reinforcing.
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25+You can read exactly where you stand through each person. Talking to an NPC opens a social panel that names them, gives their role, lists their Trait, and explains why they feel the way they do about you, so the otherwise invisible reputation math becomes something you can inspect one resident at a time.
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2327 Effects
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2630 Reputation has real gameplay consequences:
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2832 NPC dialogue changes based on what they think of youShop pricing can be affected by your standing in a settlementSome quests are only available depending on your reputationRomance and marriage eligibility can be affected
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3034 The Town Crier
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3236 You can bribe the town crier to modify your reputation. This gives you a way to shape public opinion beyond just doing good or bad deeds. The specifics of how bribery works (cost, limits, what can be changed) have not been detailed.
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3438 No Character Morphing
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3640 The old games changed your character's appearance based on morality. Evil characters grew horns and went bald. Good characters got a halo. This feature has been removed.
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3842 The decision has split fans. Playground Games made the call because they do not believe in objective moral judgment and did not want the game telling players they are objectively good or evil.
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4044 World Consequences
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4246 Choices have permanent effects on the world. The most cited example: killing Dave the giant leaves his corpse in the landscape. House prices in that area permanently drop. NPCs reference it. See Property and Economy for how the economic system ties in.
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4448 Whose opinion matters to you is part of the roleplaying. You decide which towns you care about and which ones you are willing to burn your reputation in.