This is the Plants and Climate!
The terrain chart remains, but the costs for each basic <-> now becomes 3pp.
Deep Ocean <-> Ocean <-> Shallow Ocean <-> Beach <-> Land <-> Hills <-> Mountain <-> High Mountains
Many new and exotic changes are added for this age! To change one of the basic terrains into an advanced terrain costs only 1pp.
Shallow Ocean <-> Kelp, Reefs
Kelp <-> Heavy Kelp
Beach <-> Light Palm
Land <-> Grassland, Shrubland, Light Broadleaf, Light Evergreen, Marsh, Desert, Rocky Wasteland, Tundra
Light Broadleaf, Light Evergreen <-> Light Jungle, Light Fungal, Heavy Broadleaf, Heavy Evergreen, Dead Forest
Light Broadleaf <-> Fruit Trees
Heavy Broadleaf <-> Heavy Fruit
Light Jungle <-> Heavy Jungle, Dead Forest
Light Fungal <-> Heavy Fungal, Dead Forest
Desert <-> Dunes, Rocky Desert, Light Cactus
Light Cactus <-> Heavy Cactus
Marsh <-> Moor, Swamp
Hills <-> Grassland Hills, Shrubland Hills, Broadleaf Hills, Evergreen Hills
Broadleaf Hills, Evergreen Hills <-> Jungle Hills, Dead Hills
Broadleaf Hills <-> Fruit Hills
Mountain <-> Snowcapped Mountain, Broadleaf Mountain, Evergreen Mountain
Broadleaf Mountain, Evergreen Mountain <-> Jungle Mountain, Dead Mountain
High Mountain <-> Snowcapped High Mountain, Broadleaf High Mountain, Evergreen High Mountain
Broadleaf High Mountain, Evergreen High Mountain <-> Jungle High Mountain, Dead High Mountain
Specials: Glacial Blast, Desert Drought.
For 10pp, you can blast a tile and all tiles that touch it with either hot, or cold climate change. I will then change the tiles accordingly to create large areas of glacier, or desert.
Old age events and costs:
You have two major choices when placing a waterway. Do you want to create a Lake, or a River.
Lakes will cost 2pp(small), 3pp(medium), and 4pp(large), and default to medium size if not specified. When placing a lake, you must say what hex you wish to put the lake in, and in what general area you wish the lake to be. Location Examples: outer edge between xx.xx and xx.xx hex, near the middle of xx.xx, northwestern corner of xx.xx, southern edge of xx.xx, just below the center of xx.xx, etc.
Rivers must be placed either between a lake and the ocean, or between a higher elevation(hills, mountain, high mountains), and a lake or the ocean. You must choose the thickness of the river you decide to place, choices being: stream(thin), river(thick), canal(thicker). Thickness is a cosmetic choice only, and defaults to river. The same sort of location suggestions are advised when posting a river action, you will pay 2pp for every hex the river goes through, for a minimum of 2pp.
Tectonic events also remain, but now cost 40pp each. And both destroy water features if used within the effective range.
Note: Special effects of tectonic events cannot have either waterway added within that hex.
There are two special events you can choose to use if you spend the higher pp cost.
Volcanic Eruption or Plate Collapse
They do basically the same thing, but are opposites of each other. A volcano will create an area of shifted elevation upward, while the plate collapse lowers the elevation around the hex chosen.
Each event effects multiple hexes, I roll 1d12 to determin how many hexes are effected.
These events will always occur at the end of a turn, and will always win a conflict roll.
They also produce extra terrain types, Eruptions will produce volcanos or lava, while Collapses produce canyons or whirlpools. There will be a dice roll based on how many hexes the event effects, for example: If the effect d12 gives me 6 tiles, I would roll 1d7. a roll of 1-6 would give me that many extra terrain tiles, while a roll of 7 would give me 0. What type of extra, and placement of them is GM choice. I'll probably just scatter them some around the effected area.
Extra terrain types now cost 5 points to change back into a normal terrain type. Whirlpools turn into Ocean, Canyons and Lava turn into Land, Volcanos turn into Mountains.
Waterway Extras:The main waterway events are either Rapids or Waterfalls, both must be placed on an existing river. During this age, these events are merely cosmetic, but may come into play during the advanced stages
Waterfalls occur only in a higher elevation(hills, mountain, high mountains). They cost 15 points.
Rapids can be placed on any hex that contains a river, and also cost 15pp.
You may also purchase a river crossing at 10pp. This being a small pinch in the river that will allow land crossing without blocking the river.
The locations of all waterway actions should be described as best as possible when you purchase them. However, I will use my best judgement when plotting things out. Therefore I may not always get it exactly where you want, but I will do my best.
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Topic: Dawn of Hex - Age 4: Overgrowth - Turn 25 (Iiin the jungle... the mighty jungle. (Read 39308 times)