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Oram Alnis is a "sandbox", of sorts. Occupying a similar dimensional space to the Material Plane, the gods use this world for their hobbies, their little god-games... and their proxy wars. Currently, it's in use for the latter. As war brews on the Material Plane, a wager was made between Armok, Lolth, The Morrígna, and Loki: whoever's subjects wins the proxy war on Oram Alnis, may take part directly in one battle in the upcoming war on the Material Plane. Suffice to say, a literal god could win a war on their own, and wreak as much devastion as they please in the process. Stakes are high.

However, not everything is equal here. The first group to be placed onto this world were The Monstrous, under Lolth: Orcs, Goblinoids, Trolls, Drow Elves, Ogres, Gnolls, Giants... There are plenty of monsters. Whereas they are usually ambivalent to each other on the Material Plane, clashing when they meet but not seeking each other out, here they have an uneasy alliance, and are all motivated to see you dead. Monsters tend to have some sort of advantage over a human in a fight; Trolls and Ogres are big and strong, the Drow are cunning and ruthless, and Goblins are famously conniving.
The second group to be placed here were The Hellish, rallied under The Morrígna: Fiends, Devils, Demons, various undead, or humanoids corrupted by evil. In general, they far outclass humans in several ways. In theory, victory over them is possible, but they have been capturing or destroying land and resources at a terrifying rate, outpacing The Monstrous.
Third were The Renegades, loosely associated with Loki: half-breeds, Kobolds, Tieflings, the Dragonkin, several Fey species, anything too monstrous to fit in among humans, but too human to be a monster. The Renegades are not rallied as strongly as the other factions; they're split up, and prefer to stay that way, living in whatever uneasy peace they can find. They might be willing to trade, but on the other hand, it's a reasonable assumption on their part that you want to kill them, so they may well kill you first.
The Armok Alliance has only been placed on this world recently. While the other factions' races are mostly settled in, the Humans struggle to domesticate even normal animals like horses, the Dwarves delve into unknown mountains with reckless haste, the Elves frantically try to synchronize with their new forest home, and the Halflings bemoan their lost, tightly-knit communities as they try to forge new ones with strangers.



The rules! There's gonna be a bunch, but it mosty boils down to "Build stuff, don't die, yadda yadda".

Spoiler: Beginning the game (click to show/hide)

Each player picks a race and subrace, and a name for their starting town. Your town's initial population (henceforth abbreviated as "pop") and labour distribution are based on race. Each player begins with one Scouting unit available, 250 housing, and a Shrine to Armok in their town.

Races:

* Humans: Expansionist. Roads, bridges, garrisons, and housing get built at 1.5x speed. Other city projects are built at 1.25x speed. Pop has 1 extra movement per turn, and scouting units have 2 extra. Scouting units can choose a direction (cardinal or diagonal) to view slightly farther while surveying. The Barbarians Hall, Temple, and Thieves Guild are built at 0.75x cost and 1.25x speed. Starts with 80 labourers, 50 gatherers, 50 crafters, 40 soldiers.

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* Halflings: Love of life. Halflings produce wealth at 1.25x rate. Halflings gather 1 extra food per gatherer every turn. The first 200 housing at any settlement is built at 2x speed. Gatherers stationed at or moving to a settlement that is still under construction can gather normally, and put their gathered materials towards the construction requirements. The Bards College and Magicrux Artifact are built at 0.75x cost and 1.25x speed. Starts with 50 labourers, 60 gatherers, 50 crafters, 40 soldiers.

* Dwarves: Earthen Soul. Roads and Settlements can be built on mountain tiles at no extra cost. Underdark Access and Underdark Tunnel Conversion projects can be built at double speed, and for half resources. Settlements are built with City Defense level 2 initially. Material generation from mountain and Underdark tiles x1.25. Wealth generation for settlements in the Underdark x1.25. Underdark settlements generate 2 food per Gatherer, and gather 1 food per Underdark Wall. The Church, Fighters College, and Hall of the Order are built at 0.75x cost and 1.25x speed. Starts with 40 labourers, 60 gatherers, 50 crafters, 50 soldiers.

* Elves: Forest's Grace. Elves can build roads through forests at half the base road cost, and at double speed (ignoring the usual penalty). Material and food generation from forest tiles x1.25. Scouting units have a slightly lower chance of being detected. Elves are able to fight with 10% CR during siege, either attacking or defending. The Druids Grotto, Rangers Guild, and Mages College are built at 0.75x cost and 1.25 speed. Starts with 50 labourers, 70 gatherers, 40 crafters, 40 soldiers.

Spoiler: How to play (click to show/hide)

At the start of each turn:
- Pop moves around if they were ordered to.
- Resources are gathered, and food is consumed.
- Labourers build, Scouting teams scout, and soldiers fight.

Each turn, each settlement produces food, materials, and wealth. Food and materials are gathered based on the surrounding tiles and the number of stationed gatherers, while wealth generation is Crafters * pop. There is a 10% bonus to wealth generation for every extra Town or City in your civ, and cities create 1.25x as much wealth as Towns.
Also, each pop consumes 1 unit of food per turn. If you don't have enough food, the population starts ignoring their orders and trying really hard to find some, and some of them might just starve.



Player actions:
There is no hard limit on the number of actions you can take in a turn.

* Move pop: You can have your population move around each turn. Each can carry 4 combined units of food, resources, or wealth (1000 wealth counts as one unit). Pop have 4 movement, scouting teams have 5. Unguarded transfers may be attacked by wild monsters or enemy squads, but having soldiers with the transfer reduces this chance, and the losses should it occur. Pop that is not inside a town still need to eat food, and builders trying to make a new settlement still need to have Materials, and so you'll need to manage how much resources your groups can carry.
* Convert: You can change your populations jobs (Labourers to Soldiers, etc.), up to 10% of a location's pop at a time. Those being converted are pretty much useless for one turn while they get trained to do something new.
* Build a project: Each location may have one construction project ongoing at a time. Labourers stationed in wilderness areas can build Settlements, garrisons, and roads. Labourers stationed in a Town will work towards whatever that town's current project is (or do nothing, if there isn't an ongoing project)
* Survey an area: You can send scouting teams to an area and have them map it for you. They will reveal the terrain and any interesting locations in the adjacent 8 tiles. You can (try to) send scouts into tiles you haven't mapped yet, but doing so is dangerous and drastically increases their chances of being ambushed.
* Scout an area: You can send scouting teams to a specific known location (like a guardpost or ruin) for intel about it, like how much pop it has, a guess about its total CR, and such. Scouting missions in enemy-controlled locations carry a small but present risk of the scouts being found, and possibly slain.
* Infiltrate a location: You can also send a scouting team to a location you know of to disrupt enemy operations. Scouting teams can do things like stealing food or resources, preventing a battle party from deploying, or disabling a town's countersiege weapons. If no specific operation is specified, the effect will be random.
* Battle: Sending population including soldiers to an area with enemies will allow you to fight, raid, or siege them. When the enemy tries to do this to you, you will be given a turn (or more) advance notice if you have any way of seeing it coming: garrisons along the route, a scouting team in the area, anything to that effect.
* Make a sacrifice: Sacrifices can be made to Armok in exchange for summoning more pop or another scouting team, among other possible boons.
* On turns in which you take NO other player actions and have no construction projects underway, your resource generation is multiplied by 1.25. Be wary of doing this too much.

Scouting teams will begin returning home the turn after they are stationed at their destination. The information they've gathered will be revealed after they have returned to a location you own. Scouting Teams can be immediately redeployed after returning, but do not refresh their movement doing so.

Types of locations:
* Settlements: Small countryside communities. They have few amenities available, besides food and shelter.
* Towns: Settlements with at least 150 population (henceforth abbreviated as pop) can be upgraded to Towns. They'll have some industry, and so can produce wealth. A few facilities can be constructed in towns, expanding their usefulness. Adventurers can shop or practice a profession here. All towns contain shops, taverns, and industrial facilities.
* Cities: Towns with at least 600 pop can be upgraded to cities. All cities contain the amenities of a town, plus guilds, and shops will be better stocked. More extravagent facilities can be built in Cities.
* Garrisons (checkpoints, strongholds, watchtowers, etc.): Useful for when you need to position lots of soldiers or supplies farther away from your cities or settlements. They are also useful for detecting incoming scouting or raiding parties.
* Ruins: This is not the first, or probably even the tenth war of the gods, judging by all the crumbling buildings scattering the landscape. Uninteresting ruins are easy to spot and then ignore, but some might have something useful in them; valuables that the adventurers can equip or sell, important technological or magical lore of civilizations past, or large artifacts or location-dependant effects that would make the site into a useful settlement. Most ruins will be inhabited by monsters or enemies, but can be cleared out by having Soldiers battle them. Cleared ruins can be turned into settlements, which will have a decent amount of initial housing.
* Roads: Useful for vehicular transportation, but they're not particularly safe. If you need to send resources along a road, send some soldiers too, or risk the shipment being lost to enemy ambushes or wild monsters. Movement cost along built roads is always 1 per tile, regardless of the terrain it was built on.
* Supply lines: Like roads, but heavily patrolled. Station soldiers (at least 20 per tile) on a road that connects two locations and it will become a supply line. Supply lines make it so that connected locations effectively share resources at all times; a turn is not required to send food to a starving mining town, whose materials can be sent back to a larger city for projects instantaneously. Transfers sent along supply lines cannot be attacked or ambushed (although the supply line itself can be attacked by enemy Civilizations).


Wilderness tile types:
* Plains: Adjacent towns gather 3 food and 1 material per gatherer. No penalties to construction or movement. Gatherers stationed here without a Settlement gather 1 food per turn, each.
* Forests: Adjacent towns gather 2 food and 2 materials per gatherer. Moving through forests requires 3 movement per 2 tiles. Roads take twice as long to build. Gatherers stationed here gather 0.5 food and 0.5 Materials per turn, each (total is rounded down).
* Mountains: Adjacent towns gather 1 food and 3 materials per gatherer. Moving through mountains requires 2 movement per tile. Roads take four times as long, and twice as many materials, to build. Settlements take twice as long to build. Gatherers stationed here gather 1 Material per turn.
* Water: Adjacent towns gather 3 food per gatherer. Moving across water requires 3 movement per tile, but you can't move from a water tile to another water tile (No swimming across the ocean). Treated as a road from any location with a Harbor, but cannot be used as a supply line. Gatherers stationed here gather one food per turn. Settlements can be built on water tiles, but only if at least two adjacent tiles are non-water.
* Underdark Passage: Adjacent towns gather 2 materials and 1 food per gatherer. Triple chance of ambush from wild monsters. No penalties to construction or movement. Gatherers stationed here gather 1 material per turn.
* Underdark Wall: Adjacent towns gather 3 materials per gatherer. Roads and settlements cannot be built, and is impassable. Can be converted into an Underdark Passage by stationing labourers in an adjacent tile (see Projects, below).


Each owned location has a population count, comprised of...
* Soldiers: determines the CR (combat rating) of a location. The higher a location's CR, the harder it is for enemies or wild monsters to attack it.
* Gatherers: If there are available resources at their location, gatherers will gather them. They will primarily gather resources in mountainous or hilly places, food in plains or large bodies of water, and some of each in forests. While stationed in a Settlement, they will gather from the four adjacent tiles (and not the one the Settlement itself takes up); otherwise they will gather at a reduced rate from the tile they're currently in.
* Crafters: In a town or city, they'll produce wealth, which in turn can be traded sacrificed to Armok for various blessings or rewards. You might be able to trade wealth to Renegade civs. Having lots of crafters available in a town makes shops available for the adventurers.
* Labourers: They build things like houses or churches or roads. When no construction projects are active, they use up half food per turn; otherwise they will each add 1 point of completion to their location's current project.

If a location's pop exceeds its housing capacity, the player must choose which of the pop will make use of the housing. The rest are considered to be stationed in a wilderness tile for most purposes. They may still eat food stored at the Settlement. Labourers may contribute to projects at their location even if not housed. Attacks against a location with pop exceeding its housing will be a raid against those outside

Locations also store wealth, food, and other resources; if you lose a town, you can only lose what's in that one town, and so evacuating if enemy forces are incoming is a valid strategy. If a given location is out of food, they can either make use of food in a town that's connected with a supply line, or else the population will ignore their orders and forage for food. Constructed facilities, unique resources, or other interesting features (like stationary artifacts) will be noted in a location's description as well.

Spoiler: Combat mechanics (click to show/hide)

Combat basically plays out in one of three ways: a raid, open warfare (medieval style, where we all stand in a line and then charge), and laying siege.
Your units' ability to wage war is measured in CR (combat rating), which will be determined primarily by how many soldiers are in that unit and your civilization's Military Upgrades (see Projects, below). The CR Ratio in a fight is the percentage of one side's CR to the total in the fight. For example, if your CR is 70 and you fight someone whose CR is 50, your CR ratio is 0.583, and the enemy's CR Ratio is 0.416.

If more than one player's soldiers are involved in a battle, each soldier uses their home civilizations CR per soldier.

* Open warfare: In other words, Everyone Charges And Swings Their Weapon A Lot-style warfare. Each turn, both sides inflict CR damage on the other equal to [ CR * CR ratio ]. The number of soldier casualties is this amount, divided by the defender's CR per soldier (which is dependent mostly on the civilization's military upgrades). If there are non-soldiers present on either side, they take double civilian casualties in addition to their soldier casualties.
While fighting, either side has the option to flee to a friendly location within movement range (if there is one), but they cannot fight back while doing so, and forfeit any supplies they were carrying.

Example: Aerith and Bob both have their military at level 3, and get into a fight. (a level 3 military means each soldier has 3.5 CR, it says so in the Projects section below)
Aerith's team has 400 soldiers, and so 1400 CR.
Bob's team has only 300 soldiers, and 1050 CR.
So their CR Ratios are 0.571 and 0.429, respectively.
Aerith's team takes 450 CR Damage, which means she loses 129 soldiers, leaving her with 271 soldiers and 948.5 CR remaining.
Bob's team takes 799 CR damage, which means he loses 229 soldiers, leaving him with 71 soldiers and 248.5 CR.

* Raid: A coordinated attack against an unaware opponent would be pretty one-sided. Or, with the element of surprise, a losing battle can be made into a narrow win. A raid plays out much like open warfare, except the defender's effective CR is halved for the first turn. Battles in which one side is caught unprepared are raids.

Using the Aerith and Bob example from above, if Bob's team raided Aerith's...
Aerith's CR is now effectively 700 instead of 1400, so her new CR Ratio is 0.4, and Bob's CR Ratio is 0.6.
Aerith takes 630 CR Damage and 180 casualties, leaving her with 220 soldiers and 770 CR.
Bob takes 280 CR Damage and 80 casualties, leaving him with 220 soldiers and 770 CR... which turned a losing battle into a completely even one. First to receive reinforcements wins, or they might just all die.

Suffice to say, if Alice had raided Bob, it would be a massacre. Bob would take 1017 CR damage and only has 1050 in the first place, while Aerith would take 143 CR damage, which is a scratch. Poor Bob.

* Siege: This is what happens when you attack a town with a wall. A location under siege cannot gather resources, but both attackers and defenders have -100% effective CR during siege (some upgrades or projects allow you to still fight during siege), and so it is generally a battle of attrition against supplies and starvation, rather than soldiers and CR. The location under siege can still have the population change their occupations at the same rate, and can choose to open the gates and convert the siege into open warfare. Locations with both an Underdark and aboveground component can still gather from the side that is not under siege; however, if under siege from both fronts, soldiers must be divided up between the two. If a location runs out of food (or pop) while under siege, they are overrun immediately.

Effective CR modifiers stack additively. Two +5% modifiers means you use 110% CR, a -100% modifier (like from being in a siege) and a +5% modifier means you use 5%. Effective CR does not influence how much CR damage will kill one soldier.
Some upgrades grant a Lucky Chance in battle. If you do succeed in getting a Lucky Chance, you gain +100% effective CR for that turn.

Spoiler: Projects available (click to show/hide)

Each turn, each labourer contributes one Construction Point (CP) to the current project at their location. Material costs don't need to be paid in full when construction begins, but you can't build past the proportion you've paid. (i.e. if you only have half the resources available, you can't build to more than half of the CP)
Each location can only have one ongoing Construction Project at a time.
If you abandon a construction project for whatever reason, you don't lose its progress.
However, you can also scrap a project (so as to start work on a new one), losing all progress and resources invested into it.


Does not require pre-existing location:
* Road (or bridge): Location always requires only 1 movement to traverse, regardless of tile type. Does not affect gathering. (700 Materials, 50 CP)
* Settlement: Creates a new settlement with 30 Housing and level 1 City Defense (3000 Materials, 350 CP)
* Garrison: Create a new level 1 Garrison. (2000 Materials, 80 CP)
* Underdark Passage conversion: Changes an Underdark Wall tile into an Underdark Passage tile. Workers must be stationed in an adjacent tile. (700 Materials, 400 CP)

Projects for a Settlement (or larger):
* Housing: Increases the maximum pop capacity for a location by 5. Can be undertaken several times simultaneously. (500 Materials, 50 CP)
* Stables: Movement +2, and triples carrying capacity, and encounter chance for anyone departing from this location.  (1000 Materials, 100 CP)
* Harbour: Units dispatched from this location have the option to treat rivers as roads, and triple carrying capacity, until they move onto a non-water tile. (1000 Materials, 80 CP)
* Underdark Access: Extends settlement down into the Underdark layer, directly below the existing surface-level settlement (or up to the aboveground layer, if already underground). Gatherers and soldiers must be stationed in one side or the other, but otherwise the two sides together are considered to be one location. (2000 Materials, 400 CP)
* Town Upgrade: Officially upgrades a Settlement into a Town, allowing it to produce wealth and providing many more adventurer amenities like shops. The ability to produce wealth is temporarily suspended if the Town's pop falls below 120. (10000 Materials, 400 CP, location must have at least 150 pop)

Projects for a Town (or city):
* Barbarian Hall: Soldiers stationed at or dispatched from this location have +20% Lucky Chance, for up to 2 turns. Barbarian adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Primal Path class feature. Visiting Barabarian adventurers increase your civ's effective CR by 20% while stationed, and receive +2 Rage Damage on their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Bard College: Small chance every turn of revealing an undiscovered POI or location. This location's effective CR gets a 10% boost when under siege. Provides spellcasting services to adventurers. Bard adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Bard College class features. Visiting Bard adventurers drastically increase the chance to reveal POIs while stationed, and gain a spell slot (of the highest level they currently have) for their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Church: Soldiers stationed at or dispatched from this location take -15% casualties, for up to 2 turns. Provides spellcasting services and at-cost holy water for adventurers. Cleric adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Channel Divinity class feature. Visiting Cleric adventurers make sacrifices 10% cheaper while in town, and have an extra use of Channel Divinity during their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Druids Grotto: Increases town's food generation by 10%. Provides spellcasting services for adventurers. Druid adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Druid Circle class features. Visiting Druid adventurers increase this town's food production 10% for 3 turns, and gain an extra use of Wild Shape during their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Fighters' College: Soldiers stationed at or dispatched from this location have an extra 0.5 CR each, including casualty rate calculations. Fighter adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Martial Archetype class features. Visiting Fighter adventurers increase your civ's effective CR by 10% while stationed, and gain one extra Action Surge during their next mission, that does not return while resting. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Temple: Increases resource production for this town by 10%. Monk adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Monastic Tradition class features. Visiting Monk adventurers increase resource production for this town by 10% while present, and increase their Martial Arts dice by 1 stage during their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Hall of the Order: Soldiers stationed at or dispatched from this location have 1.4x effective CR against The Hellish. Paladin adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Sacred Oath class features. Visiting Paladin adventurers quarter ambush chances for your civ while present, and have their Divine Smite base dice increased to 2d10 for their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Rangers Guild: Increases scouting teams' movement from this location by 2. Ranger Adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Ranger Archetype class features. Visiting Ranger adventurers increase your civ's scouting teams' movement by 2 while stationed, and can apply their Proficiency Bonus to attack and damage rolls against their Favoured Enemy during their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Thieves Guild: Small chance per turn to reveal extra details about a known location. Rogue Adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Roguish Archetype class features. Visiting Rogue adventurers drastically increase the revelation chance while stationed, and have +2 to their Proficiency Bonus during their next mission. Inexplicably, does not drain materials or wealth or anything.  (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Magicrux Artifact: When under siege, grants +40% Lucky Chance and may reduce siegers' pop by a small amount. Sorcerer and Warlock adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Metamagic or Pact Boon class features, respectively. Visiting Sorcerer and Warlock adventurers grant your civ +20% Lucky Chance to your next battle, if it's within the next 4 turns. Visiting Sorcerers temporarily gain one Spell Known of a level they can cast, and Warlocks gain an extra Spell Slot of a the highest level they already have, for their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Mages College: Improves this town's wealth generation by 10%. Provides spellcasting services to adventurers. Wizard Adventurers must visit one of these to unlock their Arcane Tradition class features. Visiting Wizard adventurers improve wealth generation for this location by 10% while stationed, may add one wizard spell (of a level they can cast) to their spellbook for free, and gain an extra use of Arcane Recovery for their next mission. (4000 Materials, 200 CP)

** Vehicles: (requires Stables or Harbour) If you can get adjacent to your destination by travelling only along roads, carrying capacity is 5x instead of 3x. (4000 Materials, 300 CP)
* Shrine to Armok: Allows you to sacrifice wealth to Armok from this location. (2000 Materials, 200 CP)
* Merchants Hall: Allows trading wealth for food or Materials at a 80:1 ratio. Trades are completed at the beginning of your second-next turn, but are interrupted if you come under siege.  (1500 Materials, 300 CP)
* Apothecary: Sells potions and alchemic reagents to adventurers. (1500 Materials, 100 CP)
* Magic Scrivener's: Sells scrolls to adventurers. (1000 Materials, 150 CP)
** Teleporter: (requires civ to have Magic Research Lab, see below) Pop, materials, wealth, and heroes can be transferred between two allied locations with teleporters instantly. (3000 Materials, 500 CP)
* City Upgrade: Officially upgrade Town into a City. Location counts triple for calculating your number of Towns during wealth production. The City is temporarily considered a Town for wealth production if its pop is under 450. (30,000 Materials, 1000 CP, location must have at least 600 pop)

Projects requiring a City
* Guild Hall: This location counts quintuple (instead of triple) for calculating number of Towns during wealth production. (2000 Materials, 800 CP)
** Merchants Guild (requires and replaces Merchants Hall): Allows trading wealth for food and materials at a 60:1 ratio, food or materials for wealth at a 3:20 ratio, for food and materials for each other in a 3:1 ratio. Trades are completed next turn. (4000 Materials, 400 CP)
* Magic Research Lab: Allows construction of other magic-oriented city projects. Spellcasting Adventurers can do Spell Research here. (12,000 Materials, 400 CP)
** Crystal Beacon: You have a minimum 2 turns advance warning of impending attacks against this location. (2000 Materials, 300 CP, civ must have Magic Research Lab)
** Short-Range Bombardment Array: Stationed soldiers may use +5% of their CR while under siege. (14,000 Materials, 400 CP, civ must have Magic Research Lab)
** Magic Foundry: Required for the final Military Upgrade. Spellcasting Adventurers may perform Magic Item Creation here. (20,000 Materials, 700 CP, civ must have Magic Research Lab)


City Defenses:
X City Defense (lvl 1): It's... just houses. No defensive structures of any kind. Assault against this location is a raid, unless all stationed pop are soldiers and defender has advance warning of some kind.(initial state)
* City Defense (lvl 2): There's a wall around the town's perimeter. Assault against this location is a siege. (2000 Materials, 200 CP)
* City Defense (lvl 3): The wall has guard towers, there's a barracks and training ground, and supplies are guarded. Soldiers can fight with +5% CR while under siege. Double base chance to repel infiltrations. (4000 Materials, 300 CP)
* City Defense (lvl 4): The guard patrols are well coordinated, and there are some small countersiege armaments. Soldiers can fight with +10% CR while under siege.  Triple base chance to repel infiltrations. (8000 Materials, 400 CP)
* City Defense (lvl 5): Magic has been incorporated into the city's defenses. Quintuple base chance to repel infiltrations. Soldiers can fight with +15% CR while under siege, and reduces siegers' effective CR and breach chance by 5%. (15,000 Materials, 600 CP)

Garrisons:
X Watchtower (lvl 1): It's got a storage room and a vantage point and... not much else. Will warn of incoming invasion, but is easy to overrun. Maximum capacity 30 pop. (initial state)
* Fort (lvl 2): An actual walled compound. As long as it is staffed by at least 100 CR worth of soldiers, attackers are forced to lay siege. Can fight with +5% effective CR while under siege. Maximum Capacity 150 pop. (10,000 Materials, 300 CP)
* Stronghold (lvl 3): Like a castle, but built for war. While under siege, able to fight with +20% CR. Maximum Capacity 400 pop. (20,000 Materials, 600 CP)

(military upgrades and universal conscription are applied to a player's entire civilization, not just a single location)
X Military lvl 1: You have some draftees who are willing to fight with farm tools or whatever is to hand. Each soldier has 1CR. (initial state)
* Military Upgrade (lvl 2): The military fights with actual weapons, and are instructed in combat basics. Each soldier has 2CR. (10,000 Materials, 400 CP)
* Military Upgrade (lvl 3): The military's weapons are of better-than-average quality, and they're trained to fight as a group. Each soldier has 3.5CR. (20,000 Materials, 600 CP)
* Military Upgrade (lvl 4): The military has some really nice gear, and are well-trained and organized. Each soldier has 5CR. Battle parties have some siege equipment, and so can fight with +5% of their CR while laying siege, and have a 5% chance per turn to penetrate the enemy's walls and change the siege into open warfare. (35,000 Materials, 800 CP)
* Military Upgrade (lvl 5): Several of your units are equipped with gear superior to terrestrial steel, and have some low-level magical gear available. Each soldier has advanced military training, as well as a specialization within their unit. Each soldier has 7CR. Units fight with +10% of their CR while sieging, and have a 10% chance per turn to breach. (50,000 Materials, 1000 CP, civ requires Magic Foundry)

* Universal Conscription: When under attack, the citizens will help out too. Each non-soldier contributes 1/5 of a soldier's CR, according to your civilization's Military Upgrades. (4000 Materials, 400 CP)


New Projects can be made available by capturing locations!

Spoiler: Sacrifices (click to show/hide)

You can sacrifice wealth to Armok to have him summon more pop from the Material Plane for you. Don't worry, anyone who permadies just goes back to the Material Plane when the God War is over.

* Summon Gatherers, Labourers, Crafters, or Soldiers: 1,000 Wealth each.
* Summon a Scouting Team: 20,000 Wealth each.
* Gain Lucky Chance for your next battle: 1,000 Wealth per +1% Lucky Chance.

A new Sacrifice option will become available every time an enemy (or Renegade) civ is destroyed!

Spoiler: tips, tricks, and nitpicky details (click to show/hide)

* Since this system is new, and created by myself, please bear with me through a certain amount of Early Episode Weirdness while I work on the formatting and stuff. And maaaybe some of the project costs if they're ridiculous.
* All distances are measured using cardinal directions: North, East, South, West. No diagonals. (except for scouting radius)
* No tile can be gathered from by more than 1 settlement in a given turn. If two settlements are both adjacent to a tile, resources will be gathered from that tile only by the settlement with more gatherers. Settlements do not gather from their own tile (but Gatherers who exceed the Settlement's housing capacity do, at the reduced rate).
* For the most part, projects can only be built by labourers stationed in that tile. Which, yes, means you need to get labourers into the river to build a bridge.
* The civ players are allowed to show up to the D&D campaign sessions. If nothing else, you can view the interactive world map this way. Might give you a better perspective on things.
* Since this takes place in a D&D world, a certain amount of "Can't I just <do this really obvious thing>" will be allowed. If a battle leaves the enemy with like 2 soldiers, I would rule that you could let them run away without wasting a turn "retreating" and losing all the supplies your army is carrying. Actions like "once the labourers are done building the Mages College, put the rest of the turn's work into extra housing" are permissable. With that said, while you can give the adventurers access to boats and such, no giving them free money. (meta reasons; breaking the Wealth By Level guidelines too much could get messy)
* Newly-built settlements have a decently high chance of having Something Good happen, like accidentally finding Mithril or discovering that the local water tables are super great for farming. Having more than one Town also increases your wealth production rate for all of them. Staying in one place is a reliable way to get resources, but branching out can make cooool things happen.
* The adventurers may visit the class-specific buildings before reaching the required class level, and unlock that class feature upon levelling up.
* Gatherers stationed in a Location belonging to a different player will gather as normal, but will add resources to their own inventory first, rather than the town's. Labourers may work on or start construction projects of the location they're visiting, but a Construction Project can only be worked on by labourers of the same race that started it.
* The D&D adventurers are not listed among a location's pop and do not contribute to CR; if a location comes under attack while the adventurers are stationed there, that event will be the focus of the next campaign session, and resolving it will be largely up to them.
* The D&D team has a Fighter, a Bard, a Rogue, and two Wizards.

Spoiler: POIs (click to show/hide)

Not all locations of interest are towns or garrisons. This being the gods' sandbox, there are plenty of fantastical or unnatural locations to discover. You can discover new ones by happening across them with a scouting team, or maybe the D&D adventurers will find references to some during their travels. Some POIs are "hidden", and will require a scouting team to be placed in their exact tile to find them, but others are fairly obvious and can be seen from an adjacent tile.

* Sheer Mountain: The central mountain is very smooth, completely vertical, daaaang tall, and the rock is hard to chip away (but loses its unnatural durability once mined). Broaching it is possible, but... difficult. The central mountain yields only 1 material per gatherer per turn (and no food). You can begin a construction project to scale the mountain (either in an adjacent settlement, or by attempting to build a road from an adjacent tile), but since you don't even know how high it goes, you'll have to allocate materials and labour in increments.

* Enclosed waterfall: A river separates the Elves' lands from the Dwarves'; this river is fed from a waterfall from the Sheer Mountain. The cliffs enclose it on both sides, and the river current is very fast, so approaching it is nigh impossible.

* Mountain Forest Ruin: Near the Hills of Technology is a town, long fallen into ruin. It's presumably from one of the previous Gods Wars. It's overrun with monsters, but once cleared out, some of the buildings are in good enough shape to live in.

* Mountain Pass Tower: Between the lands of Halflings and Dwarves is a passage through the mountains; at the mouth of this passage is an old tower, likely built during one of the previous Gods Wars to watch over said passage. Currently clear but unclaimed.

* Whisperwind Valley Ruins: The mountain passage southeast of the Halfling Lands is called Whisperwind Valley, because (as anyone who's been there will tell you) the air always sounds like whispers, even when there's nothing nearby. In the midpoint of the valley is a Tower; movement can be seen in the upper floors, but the door is unyielding. (location cannot be sieged)

* Ancient Village: Across the river to the west of the Human lands is an old settlement. Most of the buildings are broken down or unsafe, but a few are usable. Currently inhabited by monsters.

* Orc Watchtower: South of Valor's Stand, the orcs have built a watchtower to oversee a mountain pass.

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Urist Mc Dwarf, Mountain Dwarves
tntey, Hill Dwarves
crazyabe, Wood Elves
Omeganaut, Stout Halflings (and the Democratically Elected Negotiators Intelligently Administering Law)
Urlance Woolsbane, High Elves (and Coalition of Potoos)
BluarianKnight, Lightfoot Halflings
Nirur Torir, Highlands Humans

[Shoruke]

Turn 0
((I'll work on the format, I swear.))

Announcement: The Adventurer team is assembled, and ready to deploy!
Vote in the poll or suggest new missions.

Spoiler: Locations and Resources (click to show/hide)

The Iron Halls:
Food: 200 + 240 - 200 = 240
Materials: 200 + 900 = 1100
Wealth: 200 + 10000 = 10200

The Hills of Technology:
Food: 200 + 240 - 200 = 240
Materials: 200 + 900 = 1100
Wealth: 200 + 10000 = 10200

BadJack:    
Food: 200 + 540 - 200 = 540
Materials: 200 + 480 = 680
Wealth: 200 + 12500 = 12700

Halfling Town:    
Food: 200 + 660 - 200 = 660
Materials: 200 + 360 = 560
Wealth: 200 + 12500 = 12700

Moooooooooooooompacked:    
Food: 200 + 735 - 200 = 735
Materials: 200 + 525 = 725
Wealth: 200 + 8000 = 8200

The Jungles of Death:    
Food: 200 + 700 - 200 = 700
Materials: 200 + 700 = 900
Wealth: 200 + 8000 = 8200

Human river town:    
Food: 200 + 500 - 220 = 480
Materials: 200 + 300 = 500
Wealth: 200 + 11000 = 11200

Hoomintown:    Food: 200 + 500 - 220 = 480
Materials: 200 + 300 = 500
Wealth: 200 + 11000 = 11200

Spoiler: the World Map (click to show/hide)

The Dwarves are in the northeast; The Iron Halls is the north one of the two, The Hills of Technology is the south one.
The Halflings are in the southeast; BadJack is the north of the two.
The Elves are in the northwest; Moooooooooooooompacked is the north of the two, The Jungles of Death is the south one.
The Humans are in the southwest.
(the question mark in the middle is the POI you can use to examine the Sheer Mountain when the D&D campaign is in session)

(I'm hoping it's fairly plain what everything is, but some of the ruins use stone-coloured token borders and kinda blend into the scenery.)

[crazyabe]

PTW

[werty892]

Posting to request a Thieves Guild!

[tntey]

Are all my gatherers just chilling in my town?

[BluarianKnight]

Posting to watch.. for now..

[AuroranAI]

PTW.

[crazyabe]

I start construction of a road to the North East.

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

The Iron Halls shall dig down, down into the Earth!

Expand our settlement into the Underdark.

Move 5 laborers and 5 soldiers two tiles South. Bring 20 food and 20 materials.

Build a new settlement! Strike the Earth!

[Omeganaut]

Are all my gatherers just chilling in my town?

Based on your resources, they are actively gathering from the four tiles bordering your town.

Also, I'm voting for the Mountain Forest Ruin, although I misclicked the one below it... sorry.

[tntey]

The hills of technology

Create under dark access

Survey three tiles to the east

Build a under dark passage east of the underdark access. Then station 15 soliders in the passage

[TopHat]

PTW.

[BluarianKnight]

For now, I guess I'll build more housing, and look around for potential more resources/ruins?
I'm a tad busy, so I will probably edit this for a better action soonish..

EDIT - Send my scouting party south-west, to south!

[Shoruke]

I start construction of a road to the North East.

You'll need to, at the very least, station labourers in a wilderness square to start on that. How many are you sending?
Also, we use only cardinal directions (North, East, South, West) when moving.

The hills of technology

Create under dark access

Survey three tiles to the east

Build a under dark passage east of the underdark access. Then station 15 soliders in the passage

Making an Underdark Access is good, but whooooa there, it's gonna take 5 turns to finish that with the labourers you have, even with your Dwarf bonuses.
Of course, you can speed it up a bit by sacrificing your wealth for more Labourers.
Or you could get more crafters to get more wealth to summon even more labourers later... choices, choices 

[Shoruke]

(this should have occured to me sooner, I'll post what the AI humans are doing before the actual turn happens. Might make for a better tutorial than "here's 8 billion rules, have fun)

Sacrifice 11,000 wealth to Armok for 11 crafters. Needs moar pop.

I want to build housing, so with 80 labourers working at 1.5x efficiency, I can put 120 CP into it... Oh, dang, I've only got 500 Materials though. So I guess I'll build one housing project.

I don't know how much CR that ruined village has, so instead of throwing soldiers at it, I'll send my Scouting Team to scout the Ruined Village.