Honor

Honor is the system which serves to measure the social acceptability of John Marston's actions in Red Dead Redemption. Specific actions in the game are considered honourable or dishonourable.

Performing certain tasks, like saving citizens under attack or siding with honorable lawmen will earn the player positive honor. Alternatively, siding against lawmen, aiding thieves and outlaws, stealing, and violent actions toward innocents will earn the player negative honor. Having the law alerted of any crimes- whether they see it first hand or a witness escapes- will lower Marston's honor.

Honor will affect how NPCs interact with the player. The psychological effect of Honor on NPCs is relative to Marston's Fame level. A player with high Honor is rewarded twice as much pay for jobs and bounties, is bestowed the Duster Coat Outfit and finds that nearly all shopkeepers offer discounts while lawmen and eyewitnesses alike will sometimes overlook minor crimes. Players with Hero Honor rank have a chance of a random encounter with a nun who bestows the Obscuridad del Santo Andres, a kit item that makes enemies less accurate. If a Hero Honor is maintained after receiving the Obscuridad, random nuns will occasionaly give the player gifts of money (~$70). Players with low Honor can bribe witnesses for less, enjoy discounts in the especially shady town Thieves Landing, their whistle can beckon a special, unique Dark Horse with a white face and red scars and eyewitnesses (but not lawmen) won't dare snitch for anything less than murder.

Players can avoid changes in Honor altogether (as well as Fame) by use of the bandana.

Titles
These are the lists of rankings in corresponding honor.

Achievement
Honor is associated with a gameplay achievement:

Trivia

 * Honor is the first time a morality system has appeared in a Rockstar game.
 * There is a known glitch in which to earn extra honor: After accepting a bounty the game must be saved and the bounty returned alive for an increase in honor. Then, without saving, the player must kill themself; the game will reload before the bounty was claimed, but will still have the gain in honor and money and may claim the bounty again. **This does not always work, and may only work once per bounty.