Building Prosperity

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:

  • 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.