I definitely don't want to make them mutually-exclusive. I just thought it would be nice to have more than one option (even though I know there is only 1 for each building right now xD). Initially I thought to make it so you can recruit different people at your own pace and I kinda liked having an extra condition to using the buildings, but I guess you have point. I might change a few things around, so that once you paid for the building you can simply recruit the related characters. As a matter of fact though I'm currently creating two ways to enter a new area and one of them would involve a new character for the tavern. Either way thanks for the feedback though xD.