Workshops (which contain a forge, tools, and workers) include armorers, weaponsmiths which forge swords and other weapons, carpenters, bakeries, or any other location where items are created or repaired. Workshops range from singleperson smithies to enormous factories which employ dozens of workers.

Training halls encompass dojos, drill squares, and more. They often contain combat dummies, racks of wooden training weapons, and other equipment designed to improve the combat abilities of soldiers and warriors.

Stronghold Feat: While using your training hall, the training time required to gain proficiency with a new weapon is reduced by half.

At Grade 2, while using your training hall the training time required to gain proficiency with a new weapon is reduced to 1 month.

A temple is a shrine or other place of worship devoted to a higher power. Temples range from small churches to magnificent cathedrals. Sometimes a temple is for followers of a specific deity or pantheon of gods, but they can also be sites for the idolization of broader entities like nature or one of the Moral Planes.

Stronghold Feat: Whenever you restore a creature’s hit points, you restore an additional hit point per die rolled.

Types of Strongholds

Taverns are the backbone of society, places where people meet, eat, drink, and more.

Many retired adventurers go into business running a small general store or other commercial enterprise. A shop’s primary function is to earn money, and the larger the shop the more money it makes.

A guildhouse is the headquarters of a group of individuals or businesses known as a guild. Guilds can range from criminal enterprises such as thieves guilds, to legitimate concerns such as merchants guilds. There are guilds for most crafts or trades.

Stronghold Feat: You receive a discount for mundane goods and services equal to 5% × your guildhouse’s Grade.

A house provides you and your party a safe place to live. Houses range from small dwellings to opulent palaces filled with ballrooms and banquet halls. When out adventuring, you are able to bring with you some of the comforts of home.

Whether home to a band of outlaws or the permanent base of an army, an encampment is found in the wilderness, often consisting of multiple small buildings, tents, and shelters.

Rural: An encampment is a rural stronghold.