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[Michael]

It's on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon St.



That's pretty reasonable.



Yeah, that's great. Wish I hadn't already established it as a few blocks inland of the river....

[Michael]

I've noticed that, the book was clearly written before easily accessed aerial maps. You see it in the demo too.

To be fair though, only two are actually in Boston itself that I remember.

I gave the Putnams the Church Court building on Beacon St. It's a burned down church that got refitted for condos. It looks cool, and it seems the closest you'll get to having a walled green.

The Academy I just moved to the Athenaeum and had the Order of the Gryphon work out of a mausoleum in the cemetery directly behind it. That has the downside of being a bit of a tourist...

[Michael]

Something else I do that I can't really remember if it's technically correct or not (or maybe a previous version of the merit) is to treat the merit as more purely as a mechanic. So if you have Resources, that means you have money you can actively use in the game. Without it, the character might still have money more broadly, they just aren't able to use it constructively for the game for whatever reason.

To give an example, one of my players had their mage lack any Resources, but their situations implied they'd have at least some money (they had a full-time job and they'd moved back...

[Michael]

I take it that that's what the merit already represents. A regular amount of money that you don't need to think about.

I dunno, there may be hundreds of ways to make money, but if your players don't pursue them, then they don't have any.