Landmarks and Downtimes

Landmarks are the most notable and important buildings and other features of a Settlement. Once constructed and staffed by the appropriate members of the local Population, Landmarks provide specific benefits to the area and its people.

Downtime Actions

Every active Player Character in a Game Theater may take one Downtime Action between Chapters. Downtime Actions allow characters to continue to make progress on their long-term goals, gain special advantages during Events, recover from setbacks, or accumulate power in other ways. Downtime Actions usually take place at specific locations, and new locations allow new types of Downtime Actions to be taken.

Each Landmark lists the type of Downtime Action it allows, if any. In some cases, a character may need to meet a prerequisite in order to make use of it, such as a specific Skill, or being part of a specific Culture.

Under Construction The following lists are under development. The information here still requires additional fine tuning and adjustment, and the details herein are likely to change in the short to medium term.

Key Landmarks and Settlements

Key Landmarks are the basis for a new Settlement somewhere new in the Theater. They form the center around which the community is constructed, and play a large role in the way it develops. Key Landmarks typically have many upgrades and add-ons available to improve them over time. However, new Settlements out in the frontiers of civilization, beyond the reach of authorities and tradition always attract Darkness to them.

Hunting Villages are constructed in Forest Areas and center around the production of Hide Bundles, meat and leather. Characters may spend their Downtime Action living and working in the village. This generates their Hunting Skill in Hide Bundles.

Spending a Downtime Action working in the Hunting Village also produces Hunting Skill x 3 in Scrap Leather and Hunting Skill in Heavy Leather.

Allows the butchering of game animals for their meat. Spending a Downtime Action working in the Hunting Village also produces 3 x Hunting Skill in Meat and 1 Food.

Spending a Downtime Action working in the Hunting Village also produces Hunting Skill x 3 in Honey and Hunting Skill in candles.

Allows unskilled Labor to gather leather via the deployment of powerful mechanical jaw traps. Each Labor spent here produces 1 Hide Bundle. This does not count as a use of the Hunting Village.

Improved standards, logistics and taxes upgrade the Hunting Village to a Hunting Town. Towns produce Hide Bundles equal to their local Population, and half that much Food (round down), passively each Chapter.

A Farming Village is land set aside for the growing of crops. This is typically to produce large amounts of Food for the local population. Farming Villages use a mix of various crops so that Food is being harvested for most of the year. Each Chapter, a Farming Village automatically produces its Population in Food for each level of Fields. Characters may spend their Downtime Action living and working in the village. This generates their Farming Skill in additional Food, and makes progress on the Fields. Farms do not produce any Food during the Winter season.

Fields represents the overall scale of the farming operation in this Village. Every 10 Downtime Actions spent in the Village improves the Fields rating by 1. Fields has a maximum value of 5. Some Add-Ons require part of the Fields be dedicated to their use, reducing this number to create.

Hemp and flax are grown in smaller fields. Spending a Downtime Action working in the Farming Village also produces 3 x Farming Skill in Hemp and 1 Canvas.

Spending a Downtime Action working in the Farming Village also produces Farming Skill in Vegetables for each level of Fields.

Part of the Food crop can be fed to pigs for fattening. Spending a Downtime Action working in the Farming Village also produces Farming Skill x 3 in Meat and 1 Food. During Late Summer, the fattened pigs are slaughtered and Food Production for that Chapter is doubled.

Allows unskilled Labor actions to work directly on the Fields, increasing their progress by 1 Action. This does not count as a use of the Farming Village.

Improved standards, logistics and taxes upgrade the Farming Village to a Farming Town. Towns produce Food even during Winter months, and can manage an extra 2 Fields.

A Rancher Village is land set aside for the care of animals. These are built upon grazing hills and center around the shepherding of sheep for their wool, though they may expand to handle many kinds of herds. Rancher Villages rotate their sheep husbandry so that sheering can happen throughout the year. Characters may spend their Downtime Action living and working in the village. This generates their Farming Skill in Canvas, increased based on the level of Herds. Each action also makes progress toward the development of the Herds.

Herds represents the overall scale of the Ranching operation in this Village. Every 10 Downtime Actions spent in the Village improves the Herds rating by 1. Each level of Herds increases output of wool and Canvas by 50%. Herds has a maximum value of 5.
Some Add-Ons require Herds be separated or slaughtered for their use, reducing this number.

Spending a Downtime Action working in the Rancher Village also produces Farming Skill in Wool, increased by the size of Herds.

Horses are bred and trained at the stables. Once a new herd of horses is founded, it takes a great deal of time to train and raise a new generation of horses. Once per year in Early Summer, at the cost of 1 Herd, the Stables may produce 1 unit of Mounts or one Horse Stock.
A Downtime may be spent at the Stables to train a single Riding Horse or Draft Horse. This does not count as a use of the Ranching Village.

Aurochs can be set to graze upon the fields. Their huge appetites require dedicated land to their care, meaning less for other animals. Aurochs are huge beasts, and produce a great deal of meat. Spending a Downtime Action working in the Rancher Village also produces 3 x Farming Skill in Meat and 1 Food per Herd.

Allows unskilled Labor to produce Canvas via the use of heavy machinery. Each Labor spent here produces 1 Canvas. This does not count as a use of the Ranching Village.

Improved standards, logistics and taxes upgrade the Rancher Village to a Rancher Town. Towns produce Canvas equal to their local Population passively each Chapter, and can manage an extra 2 Herds.

Economics

Some Landmarks represent the presence of skilled craftspeople and the extraction of raw materials. Some may provide the opportunity for characters spend Downtime Actions to generate resources, while others may provide them automatically. Landmarks that represent shops and artisans add resources for purchase in the local market. Characters with the Mercantilism Skill Acquisition may make use of them to gain their items for a price.

Special

The following Landmarks are special cases.

Paths allow 1 unit of Supply resources to be carried, for the cost of 1 Labor, to another Settlement with connected Paths. Wagons and Draft Horses may be used to carry more at once. Paths can be created in Settlements with no Key Landmark.

Roads are paved and durable pathways between settlements suitable for the use of Wagons and Caravans. This makes transporting Supply more effective. Roads can be created in Settlements with no Key Landmark.

Stockpiles are created automatically as soon as there are any Supply units present in the Settlement from productive activities. Stockpiles are not secure and can be accessed by anyone.

Corpse Heaps are huge piles of the dead littering the streets, attracting corpsers and other unwholesome Night creatures. They occur when at least one full unit of Population is killed through some disaster. It takes 3 Labor to remove a Corpse Heap through ad-hoc burial and burning. A Graveyard or Necropolis with sufficient space can prevent the accumulation of corpses in the streets.

Ruins are the remains the buildings of previous inhabitants. They have been destroyed by time or tragedy, and now serve only as places for hidden things to gather and dark memories to persist. They require 2 Labor to dismantle and yield 2 Stone.

Organizations

Some buildings are the private property of enterprising Organizations. These groups draw members of the general Population into their private service in order to serve their more personal ends. Typically, while some of these may have some public output, such as a specialist artisan producing goods for the market, they work at the command of the leaders and officers that employ them.

For more details about Organizations, read [here].

Tier 3 Only Game Theaters that are Tier 3 or higher make use of Organizations and Private Landmarks.