The Farm

Many times it would be impossible to get a full party of 4 or 5 (the "sweet" spot for me) together for an extended campaign. One of these was a shorter game set in Eberron using Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 (with a few rules pulled down from 4e before it was released) for a 2 to 3 player group.

This is the home base those characters used for that game - The Farm - reprinted here from its pbworks wiki page format:

I love using custom campaign wikis for running games. They provide a place to keep the important bits well organized:

• critical notes about the setting (this is even more crucial if it's a homebrew setting of some sort)
• notes about house rules, or special game mechanics that are frequently referenced
• "fixtures" like location pages (of which The Farm is one) or recurring NPCs
• treasure and loot, if it's that kind of game
• an on-going journal, told from the point of view of the characters who in turn write (as the DM/GM I sometimes write one too, it's a great way to game outside of regular sessions, as comments provide a way for characters to add their own perspective to events shaped during a narrative)

Here is the text if the image is unreadable:

The characters use a relatively secluded home base from which to launch their journeys.  It is a small farm located just outside the rural Sharn area, outside the reach of the bureaucracy of that great city. If a person travels a half day north from Sharn by horse, they come across a split in the road that branches east into the wood. Following the branch in the road reveals a small clearing with modest farmland hidden away.

It is kept by a middle aged woman by the name of Ereebie. She is a quiet dark skinned woman who at first may seem unremarkable, but is in fact very social, funny and smart. She tends to the farm and its modest number of animals while the adventuring group is away.

The farmstead consists of a main house and secondary dwelling, plus a larger barn structure outfitted with pens and a square tool shed nearest to the fields. The fertile ground here yields a nice assortment of vegetables and spices in addition to some crop that can be used as feed for the animals. The grassy area north of the road is suitable for the cows to graze and the dense wood keeps the animals from straying too far.

Ereebie tends a small group of cows, a number of chickens, and two large male farm dogs named Baq and Tem. An older working mare named Trainer and mule called Bucky round out the menagerie.