Level Up (A5E) What strongholds and followers are missing? (Also: rules for mobile strongholds)

[xiphumor]

I’m brainstorming pitches for the GPG, one of which is adding more strongholds and followers. Here are my rough ideas. I’m looking for feedback and any ideas I might be missing:

Followers:

• Scout: explore areas up ahead
• Merchant: purchase basic goods even if out of town
• Pilot: drive vehicles
• Tailor: clothing to suit environment and culture
• Alchemist: produce various alchemical items
• Poisoner: produce poison
• Fletcher: produce ammunition
• Messenger: deliver messages and packages
• Trainer: extra maneuver/exertion
• Artist: produce treasures
• Sentry: stand guard and improve passive perception

Strongholds: (I haven’t fleshed out the functions for these)

• Theater
• Trading Post / Harbor
• School
• Hospital
• Public Hall
• Museum

In addition, I think it would be cool to have strongholds that are composed of vehicles, so you could have a caravan/fleet at your disposal.

 

[Morrus]

In addition, I think it would be cool to have strongholds that are composed of vehicles, so you could have a caravan/fleet at your disposal.

An article I've written for GPG includes the pirate lord warlord archetype, the ship stronghold, and the sailor follower.

 

[lichmaster]

In addition, I think it would be cool to have strongholds that are composed of vehicles, so you could have a caravan/fleet at your disposal.

Or, what if the vehicle is the stronghold?
Like a ship (or flying vessel)

 

[xiphumor]

Or, what if the vehicle is the stronghold?
Like a ship (or flying vessel)

Minimum size would clearly be one vehicle with the option to purchase more

 

[WarDriveWorley]

Since "Floating in the Air" is an option it would be nice to add a "Mobile" option for the added stronghold shenanigans. Create flying castles, floating taverns, crawling wizard towers, burrowing farms.

 

[xiphumor]

Maybe:

Mobile (Land) x 2
Mobile (Water) x 3
Mobile (Air) x 10 (or x 2 if already Floating)

 

[Faolyn]

Darn, and I was working on the exact same thing here!

 

[xiphumor]

Darn, and I was working on the exact same thing here!

We could pull a Darwin/Wallace and cowrite something!

 

[WarDriveWorley]

Tangential reference. Palladium Books had put out a supplement for their Nightspawn/Nightbane property called Between the Shadows that had rules for creating Astral Domains that were personal worlds in the Astral Plane with powers/abilities determined by the owner and paid for with that system's version of magical energy. I loved those rules and wonder if a similar could be implemented.

 

[Steampunkette]

This is a little bit of an out there suggestion, @xiphumor, but you could ask Morrus if you could take a look at his Pirate Ship Stronghold rules, in private and under strict confidence, in order to build off what he's written for your own GPG article as a way to maintain the methods he's got going and build it into your system?