Features
A community may have features make it notable in some way. Features may relate to one of the five attributes.
Features have the following effects:
Fortune Features - Fortune features improve the community’s affluence and impact the individuals who take responsibility for their family fortune.
Milieu Features - Milieu features improve the community’s sense of connection to their area, their history, and one another.
Security Features - Security features improve the community’s protection from enemies, both internal and external, such as bandits, invading armies, or the Shadowlands.
Resilience Features - Resilience features protect a community from natural disasters and recover from them quicker.
Virtue Features - Virtue features improve the community’s connection with meaning, history, and the inspiration that leads to hope. In worlds with a supernatural bent, this includes connections to the spirits and magic.
Features have the following effects:
- When the community would lose one rank of the associated attribute, it can instead lose one feature
- When an individual takes responsibility for their community’s fortune, milieu, security, or virtue, the feature provides them with skilled assistance on their check.
- When an NPC mitigates threat for a community for the season for that attribute, the feature can mitigate one additional point of threat.
- Features can be created through sufficient PC Action or purchased with sufficient Influence (in the Influence Game)
Fortune Features - Fortune features improve the community’s affluence and impact the individuals who take responsibility for their family fortune.
Milieu Features - Milieu features improve the community’s sense of connection to their area, their history, and one another.
Security Features - Security features improve the community’s protection from enemies, both internal and external, such as bandits, invading armies, or the Shadowlands.
Resilience Features - Resilience features protect a community from natural disasters and recover from them quicker.
Virtue Features - Virtue features improve the community’s connection with meaning, history, and the inspiration that leads to hope. In worlds with a supernatural bent, this includes connections to the spirits and magic.
Fortune Features |
Market Place The community hosts a boisterous and profitable market which attracts merchants, artisans, and entertainers from across the region. |
Rich Soil The community is surrounded by rich soil and clean water, sufficient for growing good crops most years. |
Sake Works A well-reputed maker of rice wine provides a trade good, a reason for people to visit, and a source of potable liquid all at once. |
Milieu Features |
Inn of Good Repute This lively inn serves as the community’s gathering place and shared civic space. Many troubles in the local community are resolved over a good meal in congenial company. |
Government Office The local government has prepared a place where a person of learning and skill can help to adjudicate disagreements and take care of criminal matters. |
School This house of learning provides the locals with a shared sense of their culture and traditions, along with training in arts, literature, and history. The specific subjects taught at the school are determined on a case by case basis. |
Security Features |
Clear Sight Lines The community is situated so that anyone watching can easily see danger as it approaches. A skilled archer can answer that danger just as readily, delivering stinging rebuke long before danger threatens those under their care. |
Signal Fire High above the community, where their neighbors can easily see it, rests a signal the community can use to call for aid. |
Stout Walls The community is surrounded by stout walls and/or steep cliffs which slow down any who might wish to cause them harm. |
Resilience Features |
Available Timber The community is near a supply of lumber that can be used to rebuild after a disaster. |
Flood Control Works Proper Flood Control can mitigate high water levels and help handle problems with drought and irrigation. |
Wide Roads Communities that are well-connected to other communities with multiple roads are easy to get supplies to and less likely to be isolated during disasters. |
Virtue Features |
Peaceful Glade Close to the community, hidden in the trees, is a glade where people can find peace if they stop for a moment and breathe. |
Sacred Spring A spring burbles forth from a wall or a cliff, rumored to have healing properties and certainly filling a small pool in which refreshes even the weariest of souls. |
Shrine to the Fortunes A shrine to the gods or spirits provides a place for the community to offer their respects and request aid. So long as it is properly tended, the community can at least count on a neutral stance from the powers that be. |