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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.
 
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.
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* '''Adding New Members''': Adding a new member requires a majority of the current members to agree, it should not be unilateral. 
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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).
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:* Submit a +request to staff with the group's name, and the on-grid room (if any) where the group typically meets.
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:* Some groups (Tradition/Nephandi mages, vampires with blood magic) typically use Chantry Name and +cchat which are functionally equivalent.
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:* Nephandi may ICly call it a 'Labyrinth', Technocrats may ICly call it a 'Construct'.
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:* Other examples: vampire clans/coteries, shifter tribes/packs, changeling baronies, demon courts.
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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.
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:* They're also available to non-contributing members unless a restriction is specified.
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:* House rule: Limited to 30 dots of communal backgrounds, regardless of contribution levels.
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:* 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.
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A larger group may contain multiple sub-groups, in which case the group background is counted separately for each sub-group.
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:* 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.
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:* 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).
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Each PC may only benefit from the communal backgrounds of one group, though they may be associated with others for RP purposes.
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'''References:''' ''Guide to the Traditions pg. #215'' (game mechanics), ''The Quick and the Dead pg. #54'' ('Home Base' name only)
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'''See also:''' ''+help +homebase'' (or ''+help +chantry'')
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For mages and similar groups, this is named Chantry and uses the +chantry command, but is otherwise equivalent.
 
For mages and similar groups, this is named Chantry and uses the +chantry command, but is otherwise equivalent.
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| Allies ||  ||  
 
| Allies ||  ||  
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| Arcane || || Game mechanics TBD, may be limited to the location
 
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|-
 
| Backup || ||
 
| Backup || ||
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|-
 +
| Cloaking || || Functionally the same as Arcane
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Contacts || ||
 
| Contacts || ||
 +
|-
 +
| Device || ||
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Equipment || ||  
 
| Equipment || ||  
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| Fetish || || Shifters Only
 
 
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| Followers || ||  
 
| Followers || ||  
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| Kinfolk || || Shifter Only
 
| Kinfolk || || Shifter Only
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| Laboratory || Functionally same as Sanctum || Technocracy Only
 
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| Library || ||
 
| Library || ||
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|-
 
| Retainers || ||  
 
| Retainers || ||  
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|-
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| Sanctuary || || Sorcerer Only
 +
|-
 +
| Sanctum || || Mage Only, limited to one Tradition / type of paradigm per dot
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Secret Weapons || || Technocracy Only
 
| Secret Weapons || || Technocracy Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Spirit Network || || Shifters Only
 
| Spirit Network || || Shifters Only
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|-
 +
| Treasure || ||
 +
|-
 +
| Trinket || ||
 +
|-
 +
| Wonder || ||
 
|}
 
|}
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== Disallowed Backgrounds ==
 
== Disallowed Backgrounds ==
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| Ancestors || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Shifter Only
 
| Ancestors || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Shifter Only
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|-
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| Avatar || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Mage Only
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|-
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| Black Hand Membership || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Sabbat Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Chantry || Functionally the same as Home Base || Mage / Sorcerer Only
 
| Chantry || Functionally the same as Home Base || Mage / Sorcerer Only
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|-
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| Clan Prestige || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Vampire Only
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|-
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| Fetish || CharGen Background only || Shifters Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Freak Factor || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Ratkin Only
 
| Freak Factor || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Ratkin Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Generation || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Vampire Only
 
| Generation || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Vampire Only
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|-
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| Genius || Functionally the same as Avatar || Technocrat Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Home Base || The Background is not recursive, plus it's a waste of points ||
 
| Home Base || The Background is not recursive, plus it's a waste of points ||
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Jamak || Bastet variation on Totem; same goes || Bastet Only
 
| Jamak || Bastet variation on Totem; same goes || Bastet Only
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|-
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| Mana || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Sorcerer Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Mnesis || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Mokole Only
 
| Mnesis || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Mokole Only
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|-
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| Nushi || Kuei-jin variation on Totem; same goes || Kuei-jin Only
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|-
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| Orisha Bond || Eshu variation on Totem; same goes || Eshu Only
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|-
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| Pentex Rank || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Pentex Only
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|-
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| Prestige || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Shadow Court Only
 
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|-
 
| Pure Breed || There is no way to share this Background across a group outside of breeding. || Shifter Only
 
| Pure Breed || There is no way to share this Background across a group outside of breeding. || Shifter Only
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| Renown || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Kinfolk Only
 
| Renown || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Kinfolk Only
 
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|-
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| Rites || Personal Background, unable to be shared ||  
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| Rites || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Shifters and Kuei-jin Only
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|-
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| Rituals (Background) || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Sabbat Only
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|-
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| Scathach Status || Personal Background, unable to be shared || House Scathach Only
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|-
 +
| Status || Personal Background, unable to be shared ||  
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Title || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Changeling Only
 
| Title || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Changeling Only
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Totem || Totem is (or can be) its own class of shared Background ||  
 
| Totem || Totem is (or can be) its own class of shared Background ||  
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| Years || Personal Background, unable to be shared || Bygone Only
 
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|}
  
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{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
! Background !! Details !! Restrictions
 
! Background !! Details !! Restrictions
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| Arcane || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Arsenal || ||
 
| Arsenal || ||
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Artifact || ||
 
| Artifact || ||
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| Avatar || ||
 
 
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| Ayllu || ||
 
| Ayllu || ||
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|-
 
| Batsu || ||
 
| Batsu || ||
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−
| Black Hand Membership || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Blessing || ||
 
| Blessing || ||
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|-
 
|-
 
| Chole || ||  
 
| Chole || ||  
−
|-
 
−
| Clan Prestige || ||
 
−
|-
 
−
| Cloaking || ||
 
 
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|-
 
| Colony || ||
 
| Colony || ||
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|-
 
| Detective License || ||
 
| Detective License || ||
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|-
 
−
| Device || ||
 
 
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|-
 
| Domitor || ||
 
| Domitor || ||
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|-
 
|-
 
| Feth Fiada || ||
 
| Feth Fiada || ||
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|-
 
−
| Genius || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Ghost Insight || ||
 
| Ghost Insight || ||
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| Husk || ||
 
| Husk || ||
 
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|-
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| Hypercram || ||
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| Hypercram || Functionally same as Dream ||
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Illi || ||
 
| Illi || ||
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|-
 
| Ka || ||  
 
| Ka || ||  
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| Laboratory || ||
 
 
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|-
 
| Legacy || ||  
 
| Legacy || ||  
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| Magisterial Office || ||  
 
| Magisterial Office || ||  
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| Mana || ||
 
 
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| Memoriam || ||  
 
| Memoriam || ||  
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|-
 
| Numen || ||
 
| Numen || ||
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|-
 
−
| Nushi || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Old Soul || ||
 
| Old Soul || ||
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−
| Orisha Bond || ||
 
 
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| Other People's Secrets || ||
 
| Other People's Secrets || ||
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|-
 
| Patron || ||  
 
| Patron || ||  
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| Pentex Rank || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Political Connections || ||  
 
| Political Connections || ||  
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|-
 
−
| Prestige || ||
 
 
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|-
 
| Regard || ||
 
| Regard || ||
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|-
 
| Retinue || ||
 
| Retinue || ||
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| Rituals (Background) || ||
 
 
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| Royal Lineage || ||  
 
| Royal Lineage || ||  
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|-
 
| Samapa || ||  
 
| Samapa || ||  
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|-
 
−
| Sanctuary || ||
 
−
|-
 
−
| Sanctum || ||
 
−
|-
 
−
| Scathach Status || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Secret Pure Spirit || ||
 
| Secret Pure Spirit || ||
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|-
 
| Spirit Slave || ||
 
| Spirit Slave || ||
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| Status || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Steel Nerves || ||  
 
| Steel Nerves || ||  
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|-
 
| Touched || ||
 
| Touched || ||
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| Treasure || ||
 
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−
| Trinket || ||
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Trod || ||  
 
| Trod || ||  
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|-
 
| Warren || ||
 
| Warren || ||
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|-
 
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| Wonder || ||
 
 
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| Wraith Family || ||
 
| Wraith Family || ||
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| Years || ||
 
 
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Latest revision as of 14:01, 13 July 2023

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
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