Resources

[eternal_life_sentence]

It's not just a couple of dots on your character sheet- Resources, if played right, can open doors for your character and solve a lot of problems before they come up.

But money just doesn't appear. Unless you're playing someone lucky enough to inherit a lot of money from their sire or mortal family, they probably did something to get ahold of it. And it's a lot harder to have a normal office job when you can't go outside during the day...

So how do your PCs make their money?

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[katarik]

Most of mine freelance, or work from home. It's often boring, repetitive work if you're not leaning into the urban-fantasy angle (most work from home is call-center customer service work), but in the game we're in now, my freelancer mostly does things like retrieve stolen spellbooks, or collect dangerous potions ingredients, or do bodyguard work.

Oooh, good question!

[propergoffick]

I'm gonna run through all my current losers in order, because honestly, Resources is one of those Backgrounds I always take at least one dot in...

Giovanni mob first:

Riccardo (Resources 4) is a property magnate. Family capital got him started off, and he's bought the leases on a lot of small businesses and apartments. He's the quintessential old-school capitalist, basically, and his wife/childe Luciana kind of steps into the role after his death.

Santino (Resources 1) made his original Resources (and his Fame) in the early nineties, fronting a briefly-successful grunge band; he tops them both up by playing scratch gigs and short tours either side of the US-Mexico border.

Alistair (Resources 2) draws a salary from the Dunsirn holdings company as a "public relations consultant", which means he's paid to enforce the Traditions in Glasgow on their behalf, in the guise of being a very hands-on brand manager.

Sorcha (Resources 2) has a share in the same organisation, which she supplements with modelling fees and dealing drugs (she's quite a capable chemist, and since she takes the stuff herself she doesn't mess around cutting it with too much garbage).

And over in VtR land, we have Adrian, whose single dot in Resources is a retainer from the sub-NWW magazine that employs him to write its After Dark column - an oddball mix of leftist politics, conspiracy theories and street-grade occultism. Keeping After Dark going is basically Why He Goes On Adventures - he needs a steady flow of implausible events to write about.

[propergoffick]

Also: added the community: characters tag for posts like this one where it's an aspect of "tell us about your dudes" conversation.