Should I ever get a house in a D&D game...

[Mtg_player_zach]

...I will cast a Prismatic wall for the door and make it permanent.

[Pharaoh's Fist]

I will open your window and steal your valuables.

In America.

[Haven]

Then your enemies burst in through the ceiling or walls.

(Mountain Hammer and Shards of Granite are what I love about Tome of Battle.)

[SparkMandriller]

You'll be the best hikikomori ever! Nobody's gonna be able to get you out.

[Roderick_BR]

Whoever tries to knock on it is screwed...

[Setra]

...I will cast a Prismatic wall for the door and make it permanent.

If you can cast that, wouldn't MMM be a better option?

[Prime32]

Better - get a permanent Mordenkainen's magnificent mansion... with a mimic for the door.

[Grumman]

If you can cast that, wouldn't MMM be a better option?

MMM isn't permanent. Imagine having to move house twice a week, every week. Wouldn't that suck?

You're better off with a Daern's Instant Fortress.

[Dixieboy]

MMM isn't permanent. Imagine having to move house twice a week, every week. Wouldn't that suck?

Not when I'm a travelling wizard.

Then it's a nice replacement for a tent.

[Pharaoh's Fist]

Whoever tries to knock on it is screwed...

Whoever tries Knock on it, however, will be perfectly fine.

[BRC]

Should I ever get a house in a DnD Game, I will use Permanent Animate Object on it. Then, I will ride it into battle.

[dsmiles]

I'd only build a house in a plane that I Genesis-ed. My demiplane, my rules (literally).

[Emmerask]

I have a gouse in a d&d game...
well its more of a temple in the shape of a red hydra (my goddess)

[FinalJustice]

Short answer: No
Long answer: Never
Long, detailed answer: If you want your DM to screw with it, fine, buy your godamn' mansion. But don't come to me whining when it gets burned down/boobytrapped/infested with demons/transformed into a nightmarish maze/ravaged by kung-fu-fighting-dire-flail-wielding dire bears shooting lasers out of their freakin' eyes and getting extra swift actions due to refluffed Ruby Knight Vindicator levels. (Ok, I may have exaggerated that last one a little bit)

Seriously now. Having Magnificent Mansion, Genesis and other lesser shenanigans (such as camping) available, a proper house is basically a plot point/hook. It may serve as a base to be secured, and you have to fork the cash to secure it. However, more often than not, it will be a plot hook for when the DM really wants your character personally involved (and pissed) with people messing around with it. I, myself, love this kind of plot hook when I can trust my GM to use it properly. I steer clear of it when I suspect the GM has a tendency to overuse it or play it cheaply.

[truemane]

In Soviet Russia, house in D&D game gets YOU!

[Harperfan7]

A titanic mimic sitting around a prismatic wall. One skittish pc can't shake the feeling that the house chuckles every once in a while.

[Foryn Gilnith]

Should I ever get a house in a D&D game, I shall rent it out for chump change. But hey, using a few spells to get an indefinite source of income is pleasing to be.

[Jergmo]

Seriously now. Having Magnificent Mansion, Genesis and other lesser shenanigans (such as camping) available, a proper house is basically a plot point/hook. It may serve as a base to be secured, and you have to fork the cash to secure it. However, more often than not, it will be a plot hook for when the DM really wants your character personally involved (and pissed) with people messing around with it. I, myself, love this kind of plot hook when I can trust my GM to use it properly. I steer clear of it when I suspect the GM has a tendency to overuse it or play it cheaply.

My Necromancer Mad Doctor has a house in a friend's campaign, and he was off on business in Team Evil's castle. When he returned to his home (he offers his services as a doctor to the ignorant populace), his door was busted open, his pantry raided, and the thieves even took his bedsheets. His bedsheets, for crying out loud!!

Luckily, all of his crazy mad science things and medical notes had been moved to his own private laboratory in Team Evil's castle.

[Asbestos]

MMM isn't permanent. Imagine having to move house twice a week, every week. Wouldn't that suck?

You're better off with a Daern's Instant Fortress.

Doesn't it come fully furnished? What is there to move beyond what's in my Bag of Holding?

[mikeejimbo]

Should I ever get a house in a DnD Game, I will use Permanent Animate Object on it. Then, I will ride it into battle.

That way you can keep an eye on it!

[Loxagn]

Wards. Wards, wards, wards, Arcane Locks everywhere, reinforced walls, forbiddance all over the place, a heavily-warded panic room, and of course traps. Lots of traps.

[TheCountAlucard]

However, more often than not, it will be a plot hook for when the DM really wants your character personally involved (and pissed) with people messing around with it.

(raises hand)

The party I DM for managed to obtain a shop. Only one baddie's broken into it, and he was pretty much immediately repelled by a trap they had laid.

[taltamir]

Short answer: No
Long answer: Never
Long, detailed answer: If you want your DM to screw with it, fine, buy your godamn' mansion. But don't come to me whining when it gets burned down/boobytrapped/infested with demons/transformed into a nightmarish maze/ravaged by kung-fu-fighting-dire-flail-wielding dire bears shooting lasers out of their freakin' eyes and getting extra swift actions due to refluffed Ruby Knight Vindicator levels. (Ok, I may have exaggerated that last one a little bit)

Seriously now. Having Magnificent Mansion, Genesis and other lesser shenanigans (such as camping) available, a proper house is basically a plot point/hook. It may serve as a base to be secured, and you have to fork the cash to secure it. However, more often than not, it will be a plot hook for when the DM really wants your character personally involved (and pissed) with people messing around with it. I, myself, love this kind of plot hook when I can trust my GM to use it properly. I steer clear of it when I suspect the GM has a tendency to overuse it or play it cheaply.

so if I build a house, it is guarenteed to attract random XP bundles of joy wrapped in easily stripped off monster flesh? yummy!

[Volkov]

There are items that can instantly build you a castle. So don't bother buying one.

[dsmiles]

Short answer: No
Long answer: Never
Long, detailed answer: If you want your DM to screw with it, fine, buy your godamn' mansion. But don't come to me whining when it gets burned down/boobytrapped/infested with demons/transformed into a nightmarish maze/ravaged by kung-fu-fighting-dire-flail-wielding dire bears shooting lasers out of their freakin' eyes and getting extra swift actions due to refluffed Ruby Knight Vindicator levels. (Ok, I may have exaggerated that last one a little bit)

Is that an adventure seed I smell?

[FinalJustice]

so if I build a house, it is guarenteed to attract random XP bundles of joy wrapped in easily stripped off monster flesh? yummy!

Guess that's a more optimistic way to see it. Damn' you kids these days and this whole 'glass half full' nonsense *mumble* *grumble*

[Volkov]

If I'm not wrong, there is a high level item that will instantly build an keep made out of freaking adamantine for you. That's much better than going on the real estate market.

[shadow_archmagi]

If I'm not wrong, there is a high level item that will instantly build an keep made out of freaking adamantine for you. That's much better than going on the real estate market.

You still have to buy the land.

[wormwood]

Only if you can't kick the snot out of the previous owner...

[Ormagoden]

ravaged by kung-fu-fighting-dire-flail-wielding necropolitician awakened dire bears shooting lasers out of their freakin' eyes and getting extra swift actions due to refluffed Ruby Knight Vindicator levels.

Fixed it.