Rules of the House, additional game information, magic items, tables, etc… all in one difficult to sort place. These are house rules currently in use for the Waterdeep Campaign.

Helping Others

When you use the Help action to aid another character in a task, you must have proficiency in that Skill.

Inspiration Points

Inspiration Points are earned by individual players, but they can be shared among the whole party at their discression. Each player can conly ‘store’ one point each.

The party may spend an Inspiration Point anytime to:

• increase one player’s Initiative by +10 for one combat
• regain one use for an ability that recovers with short rest
• remove one failed Death Save or Injury Token
• have the DM roll twice when rolling on a random effect table and the party chooses one of the possible results
• change the next Attack or Skill check by a player, if successful, to a critical success. If the roll is a failure, the Inspiration Point is wasted
• gain advantage on any one d20 roll

Downtime Action: ‘Gonzo Journalism’

Resources: Engaging in this activity requires one. workweek of effort from a character. The character must have a topic of mass interest to write about, as well.

Resolution: The character must make a series of checks, with a DC determined at random based on the quality of the broadsheet that character sells his story to. A big part of the nature of journalism is that you never quite know what the masses want.

The character makes three checks: Intelligence (Investigation), Wisdom (Perception), and Performance (Charisma). The DC for each of the checks is 5 + 2d10; generate a separate DC for each one. Consult the table to see how the character did.

Complications. A good Journalist makes enemies., the people who the stories offend, the people who the stories are about, and the people who are effected by the fallout of solid Jornalism. Every workweek spent in this activity brings a 10 percent chance of a complication, examples of which are on the table below.

Of course, that’s for writing/publishing your own. I’d say for the story that you’re going to write and sell… make a performance check, and we’ll use the old table:

Tavernkeeping

Adventurers can end up owning business’s that have nothing to do with delving into dungeons or saving the world, however the business may have an affect on the world and its events. The party currently owns Trollskull Manor, and running the business is a chief concern. Determining the businesses profit/loss is as follows.

Regular Expenses:

• 50 gp per tenday for maintenance and wages of hirelings
• 10 gp per tenday for all other guild expenses

Profit/Loss:

At the end of every tenday, roll a d100+10 and consult the ‘Running a Business’ table (below) to determine whether the tavern lost money or earned profit.

• If the characters spent coin on promoting their business during that tenday, add 1 to the roll for each 1 gp they spent.
• If the characters spent an entire day ‘working’ the tavern, then add +1 for each character for each day worked.
• The tavern needs 4-5 employees. 1 skilled Hireling, and 3-4 untrained hirelings. If the tavern is fully staffed, then add 10 to the roll.
• If the characters have unpaid expenses, subtract 1 from the roll for each 1 gp they owe.
• If the characters are living at the property, and it is fully maintained (considered Moderate), then add an additional +10 to the roll.

Running a Business