My party want to buy the old observatory as their base, more fitting for them than the shack.
What do you think is a fair price??
The current owner balbar Smenk wont ive it up easily but they already have a dislike for him as one of my characters father is caught up in a side plot of drug smuggling so lots of areas for roleplay coming up.
As you can see by my avatar, Smenk is indeed one of the est NPCs to come out of an Adventure Path so far. So many ways to screw the players on both the economical and political front, so little time to do it in.
Instead of a flat rate, consider a lease or renting fee. That keeps the power in Smenk's hand and he can hold it over the players when he needs to apply pressure to them oir they simply displease him. I would say a 500 GP a month should be fine considering the amount of treasure the players get in the AP. Just keep track of time spent IC, and it and it should work out fine. That amount would be enough to make it an investment and have it be a point of pride to the players to own such a property.
Of course, this is Smenk we're talking about. The threat of eviction should always be in his pocket as well as the fact that he should have a copy of the key for himself. This is Smenk after all.
Think Danny DeVito in "The Super" without the heart warming ending. Just the part about getting tossed onto the cold street if you miss a payment or upset 'The Man' too much.
If you don't want to keep track of IC time, look up the 'Stronghold Builder's Guide' I personally don't have that book (to my great displeasure) but it should have rules on how much a piece of property of that size and utility should be worth.
On a side note, I remember someone saying on the board that to replace the telescope should be about 5,000 GP.
Thanks for the input, think i will go with the lease front first while smenks around
As for smenk he is a great character but i get the feeling soon my players will have him run out of town at least for a bit, evidence building up against him, let alone the party fighter wanting to run him through over the torment smenk has put his mother through.
Dont have the strongholds book either, anyone else got a price for out right purchase??
Thats what my players did. I think I placed rent at 20 gp a month. That included food, maintence, etc. Funny thing was, as soon as the necromancer was killed the Warmage took all the furniture that the dead bodies and skeletons were around and piled it up outside and set it on fire. The player made a point to say "He's just letting the smoke hit his face". Creeeepy.
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My party is quite intent on railroading Smenk once they extracate themselves for the mines and deal with Dourstone. I have other plans.
Smenk I plan on keeping around in Diamond Lake, I like the guy. He will be making an offer the party can not refuse. In exchange for their silence in regards to his dealings with the Triad, he will sign the lease for the Observatory over to them.
Smenk is not evil, and other than supplying the Triad with some supplies, really, there is no solid evidence he was a member. I intend to play it that way and see how it goes.
So far my party has left Kullen and his gang alive, and in actuality, only killed Filge. Smenk found Filge's body because the party left it very public. He used the knowledge that they had invaded his observatory and "murdered" Filge as leverage to get them to into Dourstone's mine and clean up his little mess.
It should be interesting.