2. Kingdom Advancement

The more powerful a kingdom grows, the more difficult it becomes to control it. The base Control DC for your kingdom is set by the kingdom’s level—fortunately, as you increase in level, your ability to successfully utilize your skills grows as well.

Your kingdom gains the benefits of your selected charter, government, and heartland.

At 1st level, a kingdom receives the trained proficiency rank in two Kingdom skills gained from your initial choice of government and in up to four additional Kingdom skills determined by your invested leaders, giving you a proficiency bonus to checks using these skills equal to your kingdom level plus 2. Proficiencies cannot be changed, even if the kingdom's government or leaders later change.

Your heartland's terrain becomes your kingdom's favored land. Once per Kingdom turn, during the Region Activities step of the Activity phase, you can attempt two Region activities simultaneously as long as both activities take place in the same hex, and the hex contains the same terrain as your heartland. You take a -2 penalty to Kingdom skill checks made during these two activities.

You can establish villages in your kingdom immediately.

• 3rd level; you can expand villages into towns.
• 9th level; you can expand towns into cities.
• 15th level, you can expand cities into metropolises

As villages grow, you get more room to build and the maximum item bonus you can gain from that settlement's structures increases as well.

At 2nd level, and then every 2 levels thereafter, the kingdom gains a Kingdom feat.

Your Kingdom has learned how to handle situations when it’s out of its depth. Your proficiency bonus to untrained skill checks is equal to half your level instead of +0. If you’re 7th level or higher, the bonus increases to your full level instead. This doesn’t allow you to use the skill’s trained actions

At 3rd level and every level thereafter, your kingdom gains a skill increase. Can be used to increase rank to trained, or expert.

• 7th level; you can increase to master.
• 15th level; you can increase to legendary.

+2 circumstance bonus to skill checks made to Claim Hex and can attempt to Claim Hex up to twice during a Kingdom turn.

• 9th level; you can attempt to Claim Hex up to three times.

PC's associated with the kingdom enjoy a Fine standard of living at no cost whenever they're in the kingdom. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to all checks made to Craft or Earn Income while in your kingdom.

At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, you boost three different kingdom ability scores. Boosting an ability score increases it by 2 if it starts out below 18, or by 1 if it's already 18 or above.

At 5th level and every 3 levels thereafter, kingdom becomes more resistant to Ruin. Choose one of the four Ruin categories and increase its threshold by 2. When you do so, reset that Ruin's penalty to 0.

Identical to Fine Living, but now Extravagant standard of living at no cost when in the kingdom. +2 circumstance bonus to all checks made to Craft or Earn Income while in your kingdom.

During the Civic Activities step of the Activities phase of a Kingdom turn, one settlement of the party's choice can attempt two Civic activities rather than one. The second Civic activity occurs after all other settlements have taken their individual Civic activities.

The first time in a Kingdom turn when your kingdom would gain Unrest or Ruin, ignore that increase. You can ignore additional increase to Unrest or Ruin later in the same turn as well, but you must spend a Fame or Infamy point each time you do so. Your maximum Fame or Infamy point total increases by 1.