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.
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 |
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Allies | ||
Arcane | Game mechanics TBD, may be limited to the location | |
Backup | ||
Cloaking | Functionally the same as Arcane | |
Contacts | ||
Device | ||
Equipment | ||
Fetish | Shifters Only* | |
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 |
* Also allowed for vampires if at least one member has Spirit Manipulation 4, but fetishes are unstable as usual for that power
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |