Resources
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 World of Darkness Sourcebook p. 115 | |
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| Venue | All |
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This Merit measures your character's material resources, both possessions and wealth. All characters are assumed to have a job or a source of income (trust fund, parents) that is sufficient to cover their basic needs: food, shelter and transportation. Dots in this Merit represent disposable income - wealth and assets that can be liquidated for more money in case of emergency. The number of dots indicates your character's general level of wealth.
- ● suggests low disposable income: $500 a month and approximately $1,000 worth of assets.
- ●● suggest moderate disposable income: $1,000 a month and approximately $5000 worth of assets.
- ●●● suggest significant disposable income: $2000 a month and maybe $10,000 worth of assets.
- ●●●● suggest substantial disposable income: $10,000 a month and $500,000 worth of assets.
- ●●●●● suggest significant wealth: $50,000 a month and as much as $5,000,000 worth of assets.
Resources can be used to determine if your character can reasonably afford a purchase or expenditure. Equipment, weapons and items throughout these rules are assigned costs in dots. The Storyteller can assign cost dots to other items during play based on what's here. If your character has the same or more dots in Resources, he can afford the item on his disposable income. That doesn't mean he has a blank check with which to buy everything he sees. He might be able to afford one or two items with a cost equal to his Resources dots in a single month. Items with lower costs can be acquired more often. The Storyteller has final say on what's too much or what's too often.
Your character's Resources dots aren't spent and don't go away. They represent available cash at any given moment. The only means by which your character's Resource dots might decrease is if story events conspire against them. Perhaps your character's fortune is wiped out, he loses his job or his company is subjected to a hostile takeover. The Storyteller therefore influences how your character's dots might decrease, and whether they can be salvaged.
Vehicles
Cost is the minimum dots in the Resources Merit required to purchase the vehicle, assuming a new model and a five-year payment plan[1].
- Buying a used model (if one is available) reduces Cost by 1, and outright on-the-spot purchase increases Cost by 2 (to a maximum of •••••, assuming the vehicle is available for civilian purchase at all).
- Renting a vehicle for a day has a Cost equal to the vehicle’s Cost –1.
- Some vehicles are not normally available for purchase due to excessive price or legal restrictions on their sale.
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| Character Type | All + |
| Merit Dots | 1 +, 2 +, 3 +, 4 +, and 5 + |
| Merit Type | Social + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Merit Editor + |
| Parent | World of Darkness Sourcebook +, and Primacy + |
| Permission | Allowed + |
| Source | World of Darkness Sourcebook + |
