Custom Miracle: Super HQ [Dice Pool]

Cost with Attacks, Defends, Robust and Useful Outside of Combat is 20/40/80.  This cost scheme accounts for the Focus, Hard to Replace, and Immobile Flaws, as well as a number of Willpower Battery levels equal to the number of dice of Super HQ. 

Everybody has to live somewhere, but with this miracle your house is more than just a home.  The Avengers have their mansion, Superman has his Fortress of Solitude, and the Fantastic Four have Four Freedoms Plaza.  Even the bad guys cannot resist buying old amusement parks, missile silos, and uncharted islands.

Like other foci created during character creation, your HQ (and how you can afford to maintain it) is something for backstory to take care of.  It is generally assumed that the HQ is self supporting or owned outright by the character.  A large enough office building, for example, probably generates enough rental income to keep you from worrying about how to pay the lease on your HQ, but it won’t line your pockets with cash.  If you’ve taken up residence in a manor of some kind perhaps your wealthy relatives put enough money in a trust to keep paying the property taxes at the end of the year. 

Multiple characters may pool their points in order to start the game with a swank pad.  In fact, that’s the only way most characters are likely to be able to afford the best HQs.  This has the added benefit of cementing the group with a story detailing how they came to live in their new digs!

• Regular Dice    Regular stuff of moderate quality.
• Hard Dice        Expensive mundane stuff.  Framed art,antiques,
                         Olympic sized swimming pool, home gymnasium.
• Wiggle Dice     Insanely Expensive and/or exotic stuff. Danger rooms,
                         super-computers, powerful communications
                         monitoring equipment complete with large view screens, etc.

• Tiny        -1/2/4    1 BR Apartment               3                     3                      2

• Small       —         2 BR Apartment               4                     4                      3

• Mid-sized +1/2/4  Brownstone                   5                      5                     3

• Large     +2/4/8    2 Office Floors (24 room)    10                 10                  5

• Deluxe     +3/6/12 Large Factory                    20                 15                5

• Massive    [x2]     This level of HQ represents   80                 25                6
                             an enormous building complex,
                             island, or small European country
                             (a la Doctor Doom).  An HQ of
                             this size is going to warrant a good
                             bit of background info.                                                  
  
  

• Bad Area    -2/4/8     Don’t park your car outside or it might get stripped. In broad
                                 daylight.  With people watching.  Attempted break-ins are
                                 frequent and vandalism is rampant.  On the other hand, on
                                 any given night you can scrounge up some Willpower just by
                                 patrolling your block.

• Average      —          Your HQ is in an average area where the type of building
                                  you’ve chosen might be located.

• Secluded     +1/2/4   You are out in the boonies and it’s troublesome for others to
                                  find your or get to your location.  Maybe you’re in the middle
                                  of a swampy area, or surrounded by miles of forest.  You’re
                                  still only 20 miles or so from the nearest town or village.

• Remote      +2/4/8    People seldom go to your HQ’s location unless it’s part of their
                                  job or they are extremely adventurous.  It’s very far from
                                  civilization, and is also likely protected by some kind of harsh
                                  natural environment.  Perhaps it’s in the arctic wastes, under
                                  the sea, on the top of a mountain, or in orbit around the
                                  Earth.

• Inaccessible  [x2]      Your HQ is somewhere that regular folks can’t go; they might
                                  not even know it exists! Examples of such places include the
                                  Negative Zone, the Dark Dimension, or the realm of Gaia.
                                  You have some way to enter and exit the location, and it is
                                  possible for you to guide others there.  The location and
                                  method of entrance to your base is up to you, but that is the
                                  entrance you must use each time you travel there unless you
                                  have a miracle that allows you to reach the destination in
                                  some other manner.

• Service Staff (Basic)          +1/2/4      Cooks, Maids, Butlers, Groundskeepers

• Service Staff (Improved)    +2/4/8      Physicians, Scientists, Lawyers, Tax
                                                        accountants (5d stat+skill)

• Security Staff (Basic)         +2/4/8       Rent-A-Cops, Mall Security (4d stat+skill)

• Security Staff (Improved)   +3/6/12     Professional Security (5d stat+skill)

• Tiny               —

• Small              2

• Mid Sized        4

• Large             8

• Huge             16

• Deluxe           32

• Massive          100+