Home Base

Home Base

The Home Base Background exists as a collective pool of Background points for a group, allowing members to contribute to a common goal or project at a 2:1 investment with the benefits both applying to the entire group and existing alongside personal Backgrounds of the same type. (See '+rules home base' for full details.) That being said, not all Backgrounds are eligible to be included in a Home Base pool.

• Adding New Members: Adding a new member requires a majority of the current members to agree, it should not be unilateral.

+rules home base

A group of PCs may establish themselves as a named group. This is set on +sheet as Home Base Name, and comes with +hbchat which works much like the standard channel system (OOC by default). Submit a +request to staff with the group's name, and the on-grid room (if any) where the group typically meets. Some groups (Tradition/Nephandi mages, vampires with blood magic) typically use Chantry Name and +cchat which are functionally equivalent. Nephandi may ICly call it a 'Labyrinth', Technocrats may ICly call it a 'Construct'. Other examples: vampire clans/coteries, shifter tribes/packs, changeling baronies, demon courts. If some of the members buy dots in the Home Base (or Chantry) background, then every two dots of that background supports one dot of some other communal background that is collectively available to those members. They're also available to non-contributing members unless a restriction is specified. House rule: Limited to 30 dots of communal backgrounds, regardless of contribution levels. Members may also share their personal backgrounds, magic items, etc. with the group on any terms they want. This does not count against the 30-dot cap. These included in +homebase / +chantry documentation for convenience, along with things like wards on the building. A larger group may contain multiple sub-groups, in which case the group background is counted separately for each sub-group. Players may have alts join different sub-groups within the same group, but in that case, each alt may not draw on their own sub-group's communal backgrounds, nor on the personal backgrounds of another alt of the same player. Players with only one alt in the group may draw on another sub-group's communal backgrounds, though lower priority than that sub-group's members (in case of limited resources such as Nodes). Each PC may only benefit from the communal backgrounds of one group, though they may be associated with others for RP purposes. References: Guide to the Traditions pg. #215 (game mechanics), The Quick and the Dead pg. #54 ('Home Base' name only) See also: +help +homebase (or +help +chantry)

For mages and similar groups, this is named Chantry and uses the +chantry command, but is otherwise equivalent.

+homebase / +chantry may also be used to document things like a member sharing their existing personal backgrounds / magic items / etc., or a ward that was cast on the building.

Approved Backgrounds

Background	Details	Restrictions
Allies
Arcane		Game mechanics TBD, may be limited to the location
Backup
Cloaking		Functionally the same as Arcane
Contacts
Device
Equipment
Followers
Herd		Vampire / Kuei-jin Only
Influence	see Influence page
Information Network		Nosferatu Only
Kinfolk		Shifter Only
Laboratory	Functionally same as Sanctum	Technocracy Only
Library
Node		Mage Only
Occult Library		limited to bonuses to Occult rolls
Requisitions		Technocracy Only
Resources
Retainers
Sanctuary		Sorcerer Only
Sanctum		Mage Only, limited to one Tradition / type of paradigm per dot
Secret Weapons		Technocracy Only
Spirit Network		Shifters Only
Treasure
Trinket
Wonder

Disallowed Backgrounds

• If you feel a Background should be allowed (either generally or for a specific case), submit a request to Staff.

Background	Details	Restrictions
Alternate Identity	Personal Background, unable to be shared
Ancestors	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Shifter Only
Avatar	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Mage Only
Black Hand Membership	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Sabbat Only
Chantry	Functionally the same as Home Base	Mage / Sorcerer Only
Clan Prestige	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Vampire Only
Fetish	CharGen Background only	Shifters Only
Freak Factor	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Ratkin Only
Generation	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Vampire Only
Genius	Functionally the same as Avatar	Technocrat Only
Home Base	The Background is not recursive, plus it's a waste of points
Jamak	Bastet variation on Totem; same goes	Bastet Only
Mana	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Sorcerer Only
Mnesis	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Mokole Only
Nushi	Kuei-jin variation on Totem; same goes	Kuei-jin Only
Orisha Bond	Eshu variation on Totem; same goes	Eshu Only
Pentex Rank	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Pentex Only
Prestige	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Shadow Court Only
Pure Breed	There is no way to share this Background across a group outside of breeding.	Shifter Only
Renown	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Kinfolk Only
Rites	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Shifters and Kuei-jin Only
Rituals (Background)	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Sabbat Only
Scathach Status	Personal Background, unable to be shared	House Scathach Only
Status	Personal Background, unable to be shared
Title	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Changeling Only
Totem	Totem is (or can be) its own class of shared Background
Years	Personal Background, unable to be shared	Bygone Only

Decision Pending

• Any Background not otherwise listed on this page is assumed to belong in this Category.
• If you want one of these Backgrounds for your Home Base, request them and Staff will render a decision.

Background	Details	Restrictions
Arsenal
Artifact
Ayllu
Ba
Backers
Batsu
Blessing
Bystanders
Chimera
Chole
Colony
Companion
Consecrated
Contemplation
Cray
Cult
Demesne
Den Realm
Destiny
Detective License
Domitor
Dream
Dreamers
Dross
Eidolon
Eminence
Enhancement
Exposure
Fae Steed
Fame
Familiar Companion
Familiar Spirit
Fate
Feth Fiada
Ghost Insight
Golem
Grace Under Pressure
Guide
Haunt
Health Insurance
Holdings
Horoscope
Husk
Hypercram	Functionally same as Dream
Illi
Jade Talisman
Joss
Ka
Legacy
Legend
Living Family
Magisterial Office
Memoriam
Memory
Mentor
Military
Neteru
Notoriety
Numen
Old Soul
Other People's Secrets
Pacts
Pakua
Paragon
Passion
Past Elder Status
Past Lives (Mage)		Mage Only
Past Weapons
Patron
Political Connections
Regard
Relic
Remembrance
Remora
Retinue
Royal Lineage
Royal Title
Samapa
Secret Pure Spirit
Shield
Spies
Spirit Ally
Spirit Companion
Spirit Heritage
Spirit Slave
Steel Nerves
Symbiosis
Tomb
Touched
Trod
Umbral Glade
Umbral Maps
Veil
Vessel
Visage
Vision
Wallow
Warren
Wraith Family