Table of Contents
- Specials
- Mothballing Components
- Location, Location, Location
- Regular Components
- Living Component
- Receiving Component
- Library Component
- Atelier / Workshop Component
- Garage
- Garden Component
- Secret Room
- Home Cinema
- Home Gym
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Special Components
- Dance Floor
- Art Gallery / Museum
- Yacht
- Sport Field
- Central Security Room
- Occult Laboratory / Workshop
Rules Proposal
This is a drafted proposal for replacement rules for the Haven background in 3R. Ignore the monetary values for now.
A building is an apartment, house or other form of real-estate for your personal use. You can have as many as you want, but you need to pay upkeep for each. If you are no longer able to pay the upkeep, your building will be repossessed and you will lose it.
To make a building, select from among the components below. The exact details of the building are still up to you, the below components each serve a clear function and if you want your building to have that function, you need the listed component. For reasons of explanation, each component lists what it might include in terms of rooms, but the component is NOT the rooms, only the function. It is up to you to decide on the exact details or to include additional details or omit certain things.
For example, if you have a large house with three Living Components, you probably want one bigger kitchen instead of three small separate ones. However, please note that in order to give dinner parties, you still need the Receiving Component.
Each component describes a cost in terms of basic upkeep as well as maintenance necessary. Upkeep covers all material costs including taxes, mortgage payments (or rent, as the case may be), heating, repair, paint, etc.
Maintenance represents the time necessary to keep the space clean and organized. You can hire someone to do the maintenance for you, do it yourself, or assign it to one of your ghouls. If you choose to hire someone, this needs to be paid in addition to the upkeep as it is not included.
You may propose additional components for anything not covered, and the list may be extended later.
Specials
Certain components are 'special' components. Special components generally give you extra options or unique bragging rights, and players are encouraged to design their own. They generally work like normal components, but each building you own may have at most a single 'special' component.
Please keep in mind that specials are supposed to be interesting additions to an building and to fit into the whole. As such, make sure that your actual building is in line with the special component. In general, design your buildings so they make sense on their own.
Mothballing Components
If you do not plan to use a component for a longer period, you can "mothball" it. When a component is mothballed, you may skip any maintenance associated with the component but can no longer use it. You still have to pay the upkeep for the component, even if it is mothballed. To start using a component again, you have to spend (2 x monthly maintenance) dayparts to restore it to full function.
Location, Location, Location
The upkeep costs of a building are strongly influenced by the building's location. The location multiplier is determined in discussion with the storyteller, and is determined by factors such as:
| Adjustment | Due to |
|---|---|
| 1 – 3 | Base Modifier for city / area |
| +0.5 – +2 | Prestigious area (such as neighbourhood or district) |
| +1 – +3 | Iconic or prestigious building |
| -1.5 – +1.5 | High-crime – Low-crime area |
| +0.25 | No-questions-asked renting |
| -0.25 – -1 | Rural area / lack of utilities or connectivity |
| -0.5 – -2 | Very undesirable location (next to loud industry, etc.) |
This table is not exhaustive, and additional factors (both positive and negative) may affect the location modifier.
To calculate the final upkeep of the building, multiply the summed upkeep of all components by the location modifier. The final upkeep is then rounded in your favour.
Regular Components
Living Component
Each living component provides living arrangements for up to two people, including such things as a bedroom, a desk or office, and a small kitchen to provide enough food to eat. If you want more room for extra guests, you need to take this multiple times.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Receiving Component
An area designed to entertain guests, such as a large living room, or a big dining room and extended kitchen. Comes with all the furnishings necessary to host a party, dinner or otherwise. If you want to house exceptionally large parties with multiple tables of guests, you need to get this component more than once.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 1 daypart / month + 2 daypart per party
Library Component
A library component provides a large room lined with bookshelves, and arrangements for comfortable reading including comfortable seating, a reading desk, and often a lectern. This component provides space for a single collection.
Unless additional effort is made, the component provides a generic collection of fiction and non-fiction, including only common topics and interests. Collections on specific topics or specialist knowledge need to be built up through effort.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 1 daypart / month
Atelier / Workshop Component
An area arranged for crafts or an artist's activities. The atelier or workshop is well-appointed to both offer the tools and materials of the craft and look good to those visiting at the same time. The exact tools available and materials in stock depend on the craft or art the atelier is dedicated to.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 4 dayparts / month
Garage
An area for storing motor vehicles. It holds one passenger car or two motorcycles and some storage room usually used to store basic tools for maintenance.
If you want to have room for a big SUV (big in American terms) or similar sized pickup truck you need two of these components, and a large Semi truck needs four of these.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 1 dayparts / month
Garden Component
A garden with flowerbeds, sitting area, etc., where you can hold a barbeque. Per component purchased, you may include one 'special feature' such as a shed, gazebo, fountain, small greenhouse, pond with fish, etc.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Secret Room
A secret area or room in the house that is hidden behind a wine rack, bookcase or other common feature, making it very difficult to find and access unless you know where it is and how to access it.
You can fill out the content of the secret room within reason, from a dungeon to torture your prisoners to a secret laboratory or hidden love shack.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Home Cinema
A room with a very large screen or projector and comfortable chairs to watch movies, football games and so on in comfort. For more traditional vampires, there may be a small stage for performers instead.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Home Gym
An area to practice indoor sports or work out, including suitable workout equipment, weights and so on. If you practice a specific sport, it may be specialized for those needs at your discretion.
Upkeep: $ 500 / month
Maintenance: 1 daypart / month
Outdoor Swimming Pool
A pool large enough to swim, including a deck to enjoy the sun - or the moonlight.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 4 dayparts / month
Special Components
Dance Floor
A dance floor large enough to host dances, including a DJ booth or a small stage for a band, a fine dance floor and so on.
Big enough to host large parties of different types, even if they aren't dance parties specifically.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Art Gallery / Museum
A large collection of paintings, antique vases, statues, etc to make your building much more impressive, and which may impress visitors. Alternatively, this component can be a museum dedicated to historical artifacts.
All buildings come with some amount of art. However, this component represents a serious collection some of which can be seasonally cycled and which includes such things as a proper gallery. This component also includes all the necessities to properly display major works by the great artists, or major archeological finds and can be used to properly store and display any such items you acquire during your adventures.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 4 dayparts / month
Yacht
> Design note: the maintenance is actually a representation of staff.
Your building is a luxury yacht and can move across the world, weather permitting. Your ship includes a cargo hold to store cargo.
This special requires a high location modifier.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 90 dayparts / month
Sport Field
A field or indoor area dedicated to a specific sport, such as a tennis court, football field, gymnastics hall, etc, including an area for fans and observers to watch.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 2 dayparts / month
Central Security Room
A room that centralizes security for the building. This includes measure to protect the house from outside attack, including such things as alarm systems that automatically alerts 911 (or a dedicated security company), full coverage security camera's, barbed wire fences, proper safes and such. Can support security staff.
You do not need this component to add basic security measures, but if you plan to add a lot of different ones, this will be the cheaper option.
Upkeep: $ 1500 / month
Maintenance: 30 dayparts / month
Occult Laboratory / Workshop
An area furnished for occult research and experimentation. To keep out those that would not understand, and prying eyes, the Occult laboratory is hidden from sight by means of architecture, can be completely closed to the outside world, and comes with a special or hidden entrance.
The occult laboratory or workshop consists of several well-appointed rooms for specimen and reagent storage, literature research, and research by experimentation. Additional rooms could be specifically conditioned rooms are available for the performance of undisturbed rituals, or rooms prepared as conductive places for summoning or conjurations, or the creation of mystically significant objects. The exact furnishings and trappings of the occult laboratory or workshop depend on the occult traditions the magus subscribes to.
Upkeep: $ 1000 / month
Maintenance: 4 dayparts / month