Stronghold for PC's
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Mort_Q
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Good idea, though there are no rules published to date.
You can give a stronghold as a quest reward, or some other campaign specific reason. They could capture one?
As for upkeep and servants, just come up with a number and add that much, give or take, to the treasure parcels.
p.s. PC's stronghold would work. Stronghold for PC's is just plain wrong.
abyssaldeath
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As Mort Q said there are no rules for it, but if you choose to do it I think you should make it self-sustaining. What I mean by that is, you should included some farm land and give them some sort of adviser who takes care of the day to day things like maintenance, upgrades and wages. That way you can use the stronghold for roleplaying without having to get bogged down with real life things like paying bills.
DracoSuave
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Definately, a stronghold makes an excellent base for adventures. Try to avoid all the minitua of running the thing from day to day (chances are it'll bore the players and your attempt to simulate it will actually fail to simulate it anyways) but introduce challenges to its existance that are important to _____-tier characters.
Strongholds in old editions have always tended to be borderlands keeps in wild places. They should be on the edge of adventure, whether that means 'A bulwark against the invading force' or 'near the centers of courtly intrigue' depending on your campaign.
p.s. it's actually correct to put an apostrophe after abbreviations for the plural, so it can be determined without context he means multiple P.C.'s rather than a single P.C.S.
Strongholds in old editions have always tended to be borderlands keeps in wild places. They should be on the edge of adventure, whether that means 'A bulwark against the invading force' or 'near the centers of courtly intrigue' depending on your campaign.
p.s. PC's stronghold would work. Stronghold for PC's is just plain wrong.
p.s. it's actually correct to put an apostrophe after abbreviations for the plural, so it can be determined without context he means multiple P.C.'s rather than a single P.C.S.
Mort_Q
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DracoSuave
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Been like that for decades.
Not using it is a very recent linguistic development.
Not using it is a very recent linguistic development.
Mort_Q
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Bob the Angry Flower disagrees.
DracoSuave
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Bob the angry flower isn't talking specifically about abbreviations.
The current 'style guide' is that most proffessional agencies use no apostrophe for abbreviations without periods, apostrophes where abbreviations have periods and where they are otherwise indistinguishable from ordinary words. However, using the apostrophe is not incorrect for abbreviations, the language -is- evolving away from that slowly, however.
30 years ago, saying GIs was as correct as saying 'ur' is today.
The current 'style guide' is that most proffessional agencies use no apostrophe for abbreviations without periods, apostrophes where abbreviations have periods and where they are otherwise indistinguishable from ordinary words. However, using the apostrophe is not incorrect for abbreviations, the language -is- evolving away from that slowly, however.
30 years ago, saying GIs was as correct as saying 'ur' is today.
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