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 |
|---|---|---|
| Allies | ||
| Backup | ||
| Contacts | ||
| Equipment | ||
| Fetish | Shifters Only* | |
| Followers | ||
| Herd | Vampire / Kuei-jin Only | |
| Influence | see Influence page | |
| Information Network | Nosferatu Only | |
| Kinfolk | Shifter Only | |
| Library | ||
| Node | Mage Only | |
| Occult Library | limited to bonuses to Occult rolls | |
| Requisitions | Technocracy Only | |
| Resources | ||
| Retainers | ||
| Secret Weapons | Technocracy Only | |
| Spirit Network | Shifters Only |
* 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alternate Identity | Personal Background, unable to be shared | |
| Ancestors | Personal Background, unable to be shared | Shifter Only |
| Chantry | Functionally the same as Home Base | Mage / Sorcerer Only |
| Freak Factor | Personal Background, unable to be shared | Ratkin Only |
| Generation | Personal Background, unable to be shared | Vampire Only |
| Home Base | The Background is not recursive, plus it's a waste of points | |
| Jamak | Bastet variation on Totem; same goes | Bastet Only |
| Mnesis | Personal Background, unable to be shared | Mokole 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 | |
| Title | Personal Background, unable to be shared | Changeling Only |
| Totem | Totem is (or can be) its own class of shared Background |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arcane | ||
| Arsenal | ||
| Artifact | ||
| Avatar | ||
| Ayllu | ||
| Ba | ||
| Backers | ||
| Batsu | ||
| Black Hand Membership | ||
| Blessing | ||
| Bystanders | ||
| Chimera | ||
| Chole | ||
| Clan Prestige | ||
| Cloaking | ||
| Colony | ||
| Companion | ||
| Consecrated | ||
| Contemplation | ||
| Cray | ||
| Cult | ||
| Demesne | ||
| Den Realm | ||
| Destiny | ||
| Detective License | ||
| Device | ||
| Domitor | ||
| Dream | ||
| Dreamers | ||
| Dross | ||
| Eidolon | ||
| Eminence | ||
| Enhancement | ||
| Exposure | ||
| Fae Steed | ||
| Fame | ||
| Familiar Companion | ||
| Familiar Spirit | ||
| Fate | ||
| Feth Fiada | ||
| Genius | ||
| Ghost Insight | ||
| Golem | ||
| Grace Under Pressure | ||
| Guide | ||
| Haunt | ||
| Health Insurance | ||
| Holdings | ||
| Horoscope | ||
| Husk | ||
| Hypercram | ||
| Illi | ||
| Jade Talisman | ||
| Joss | ||
| Ka | ||
| Laboratory | ||
| Legacy | ||
| Legend | ||
| Living Family | ||
| Magisterial Office | ||
| Mana | ||
| Memoriam | ||
| Memory | ||
| Mentor | ||
| Military | ||
| Neteru | ||
| Notoriety | ||
| Numen | ||
| Nushi | ||
| Old Soul | ||
| Orisha Bond | ||
| Other People's Secrets | ||
| Pacts | ||
| Pakua | ||
| Paragon | ||
| Passion | ||
| Past Elder Status | ||
| Past Lives (Mage) | Mage Only | |
| Past Weapons | ||
| Patron | ||
| Pentex Rank | ||
| Political Connections | ||
| Prestige | ||
| Regard | ||
| Relic | ||
| Remembrance | ||
| Remora | ||
| Retinue | ||
| Rituals (Background) | ||
| Royal Lineage | ||
| Royal Title | ||
| Samapa | ||
| Sanctuary | ||
| Sanctum | ||
| Scathach Status | ||
| Secret Pure Spirit | ||
| Shield | ||
| Spies | ||
| Spirit Ally | ||
| Spirit Companion | ||
| Spirit Heritage | ||
| Spirit Slave | ||
| Status | ||
| Steel Nerves | ||
| Symbiosis | ||
| Tomb | ||
| Touched | ||
| Treasure | ||
| Trinket | ||
| Trod | ||
| Umbral Glade | ||
| Umbral Maps | ||
| Veil | ||
| Vessel | ||
| Visage | ||
| Vision | ||
| Wallow | ||
| Warren | ||
| Wonder | ||
| Wraith Family | ||
| Years |
