There’s little incentive to promise anything outside of those favor promises, and that just gets someone mana once.

I’m trying to think of good ways to reward Pactmakers for Promises that legitimately constrict their conduct, but I keep coming up short of ideas. Scorn is part of a solution, but there’s no way now for someone to say “good job, here’s +1 Mana” on a promise that is interesting, but can obviously be kept easily. Favors are nice, but it would be really neat if there were rules that aligned everyone’s interests toward being able to make rewardable, free-text promises.

For voluntary Promises, I believe we need a more appealing economy with different, unique types of wealth (position on the map, Imps? Items?). Contracts IRL are attractive because they control flow of resources - people’s money, stuff, time, etc. Promises are similar, imo.

Alternatively we can have “forced” Promises with Cursed items/tiles/mana-eaters or something.