Do your PCs have homes?

dreaded_beast · Mar 23, 2005

My group consists of 1st level PCs exploring the area around their home town. So far, we haven't really done any gaming within the town, we just mainly start off at the entrance to the dungeon.

Anyways, since we haven't really played a session in their home town, I'm wondering about how to handle their living arrangements: if they have a home, family, etc.

So, do your PCs have homes and how do you handle it?

reveal · Mar 23, 2005

dreaded_beast said:
My group consists of 1st level PCs exploring the area around their home town. So far, we haven't really done any gaming within the town, we just mainly start off at the entrance to the dungeon.

Anyways, since we haven't really played a session in their home town, I'm wondering about how to handle their living arrangements: if they have a home, family, etc.

So, do your PCs have homes and how do you handle it?

This campaign is the first one where the PCs actually are purchasing a home. They are in Sharn and have looked into a residence and will be buying it once they get back to town. They will then furnish it and keep it safe from baddies with locks, spells, etc.

Since I've never had this happen before, I don't have anything planned for "home based" stuff but I will write something.

Kid Charlemagne · Mar 23, 2005

I like to base a campaign around a town or two to let the PC put down roots. In one of my current games, the PC's are just kind of deciding where they live now; two PC's were students at a Hogwarts-ish school, and so had dorm rooms. Now they've graduated and are looking for lodging. The party druid has a place in the forest nearby, and so on.

In my last long-term game, this came into play quite a bit. The cleric (of a God of Luck) had a house and casino. The fighters each had small areas that they were granted by the crown, and manor houses or small castles. The ranger had a small outpost in the forest built.

eris404 · Mar 23, 2005

In one campaign I can definitely say they do. The DM told us to chose an amount that would represent our monthly upkeep like so:

* Self-sufficient: 2 gp/month. You live like a common laborer.
* Meager: 5 gp/month. Slightly better than that.
* Poor: 12 gp/month
* Common: 45 gp/month. Solidly middle-class.
* Good: 100 gp/month. A pretty good life.
* Extravagant: 200 gp/month. Upper class.

Depending on the amount, rent or stays in boarding houses/inns might be covered. Many of us though have found our own places to live, such as an abandoned warehouse that doubles as a wizard's laboratory and a treehouse that the druid built.

None of our characters have family nearby or are married, so I can't answer that.

EDIT: Kid Charlemagne - LOL! We must've posted at the same time. Hope you don't mind me posting your guidelines.

pdkoning · Mar 23, 2005

My PC's never had a 'home' and were always traveling around.

In the current Eberron one party member has a home (in Sharn), and we visit it to rest, sleep or to stock items we don't need at the time.

The DM however, charches nothing for this home, only standard food costs for the characters.

ergeheilalt · Mar 23, 2005

In the planescape game I play online, our party was gifted with a small storefront in Sigil.

Erge

Crothian · Mar 23, 2005

Sure, he has a home. But he left it to go adventureing and probably won't be back there for many years.

Olgar Shiverstone · Mar 24, 2005

My PC's have homes from a background perspective -- regions where they're from, or towns -- but none have specific locations or relatives in the immediate campaign area. Maybe it has something to do with the one PC who did have a specific home and relatives having said home burned and relatives killed in reprisal for party actions; everyone after that has stayed nonspecific in their backgrounds.

WayneLigon · Mar 24, 2005

Most of the PC's usually have some kind of family left, but the first thing almost everyone party I've GM'ed has done once they get a few levels and a goodly amount of gold under their belt is to say 'Screw ths, we' need a base'. So they'll usually find a fair-sized villa near one of the gates, preferably one with a courtyard inside, and buy it outright.

They'll usually go back to some poor family that treated them well, or some older couple that cooks well and can help mend things, and give them the proposition of coming to work for them, and then pay them very well indeed to care for the place while they are gone and to cook and clean for them when they are there.