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NATION CREATION:

Race Name:
Leader Name and Title:
Player Name:
Color: Something easy on the eyes
Home Planet: One of the 34 available on the Map of the Local Cluster
Extra Traits: Pick 2 from "Race Traits" list

TURNS:

Game starts at Turn 0, where Players can spend their starting credits (default 30) on Development of Resources and Creation of Armies and Fleets, as well as inter-Player Diplomacy.
Each subsequent Turn has their Players post their Actions - and have them resolved - in the order of Playerlist.

TAXATION:

Everything is paid with Credits; Credits are predominantly achieved via Tax Income.
Each Planet owned provides +2 Tax Income. Each Developed Resource provides Tax Income according to "Resources" list.

HOME PLANET:

Your starting Planet is your Home world. Home Planet generates extra 2 Tax Income per Turn, and grants +1 to Defense Rolls of Armies within and fleets around it.
You can move your Capital to another Planet you own. This requires you to spend 50 Credits.

DEVELOPMENT:

You can Develop Resources on any planet you own. This costs Credits.
Each Planet can have maximum of 2 Resources Developed in it (unless specified otherwise).
You can re-Develop one Resource into another by paying the usual Development Cost.
Resources start to contribute their effects from the end of your turn (meaning that, e.g.,  you can't build a portal and immediately teleport in an army.)

DIPLOMACY:

War: States can move Armies into each other's Planets for Occupation and dock fleets next to planets.
Peace (default): States cannot move Armies into each other's Planets and dock fleets next to planets.
Trade Treaty: +5 Trade Income to both States. You can have maximum of 3 Trade Treaties.
Military Pact: States can move Armies into each other's Planets for further Movement, and Fleets for resupply. Prevents War. When nulled, all Armies on Planets surrender (unless owned by the planets owner) and fleets are moved to the closest Planet of their controller.
Gift: Sends Credits to another Player. Requires Peace. Maximum amount of Credits gifted cannot exceed your Tax Income.

NPC NATIONS:

After game starts, all non-Player States get 1 Army and 1 fleet and 1 random resources (weighed towards the cheap ones.)
Players can do Diplomacy (except Gifts) with them. NPC States will accept if adjacent, or Coin Toss (Heads for acceptance) if non-adjacent.
NPC States never start Wars or develop Resources on their own. They will build up lost armies and fleets if able.

WAR:

If two fleets at war meet they will have a battle: a d10 is rolled (with modifiers) for each fleet and the highest scores are compared.
In each matchup if the attacker's roll is higher, one defending fleet is destroyed. If the defenders roll is higher, one attacking fleet is destroyed. If the rolls are equal one attacking fleet withdraws to it's origin, but is alive. This continues until only 1 alliance's fleet remains.
Each time a fleet is destroyed/withdrawn it's army is withdrawn/destroyed with it.

Each fleet above a planet may bombard it instead of moving to remove a random resource or army. You don't get to choose if a resource or army gets destroyed.

If two armies at war meet on a Planet they will have a battle: a d10 is rolled (with modifiers) for each army and the highest scores are compared.
In each matchup if the attacker's roll is higher, one defending army is destroyed. If the defenders roll is higher, one attacking army is destroyed. If the rolls are equal one attacking army withdraws back to orbit, but is alive. This continues until only 1 alliance's armies remain.


ARMIES AND NAVIES:

Each Planet can create 1 Army per Turn; Creating an Army costs 3 Credits. Each army costs 1 upkeep per turn.
Each Planet can create 1 Fleet per Turn; Creating a fleet costs 10 Credits. Each Fleets owned requires 3 Credits of upkeep per Turn.
If you cannot pay all your Armies and Fleets at start of your Turn, you first must disband enough of them to be able to pay Upkeep before you can do any other Actions.
A planet may not produce a fleet if it is blockaded (occupied) by enemy fleets.
You may disband Armies and Fleets at will, but will not get any Credits back.
Freshly build armies/fleets can not be moved until the end of turn, but will defend your Planets on other people's turns.

MOVEMENT:

Armies can move to an owned fleet or from a fleet onto a planet. They may also travel through the portal network as though they were fleets.
Fleets can move between adjacent planets (connected by a line) and may also travel between two friendly (owned or allied) planets with a portal, if they are close enough based on "portal" technology.

VICTORY CONDITION:

At the end of any given Turn:
Owners of 18 planets (even if it's all one player) decide that one player has won, they are proclaimed the winner.
Alternatively if one player researches the Ascension technology they are proclaimed the winner.

TURN ORDER:

Regardless of how they are formatted in the turn post, things happen in the following sequence:

• All movements
• All battles
• All research
• All building  (armies and ships, then resources)
• Planets change ownership

Reminder to pick 2:

• Predators: +3 on all army rolls
• Avian: +1 on all fleet rolls
• Resourceful: Start with 50 Credits and gain +1 Credit from Banks/ turn
• Brainy: gain +1 tech point/ turn from Labs
• Strategic: May move allied fleets and armies, if they haven't moved during the last turn (and if given permission)
• Miniature: -1 on all army rolls, ability to construct a 3rd resource on their Planets (if a non-miniature race captures their planet they must disband one resource)

Mine
Effect: -1 cost to create fleet (per mine) on the Planet. -1 upkeep of fleets on the Planet (does not stack.)
Development Cost\Tax Income: 5\1

Portal
Effect: Allows movement through the portal network
Development Cost\Tax Income: 15\2

Bank
Effect: Adds Finance Technology Level worth of credits to tax income (per bank)
Development Cost\Tax Income: 10\2

Lab:
Effect: +2 tech points/ turn
Development Cost\Tax Income: 20\2

Technology comes in 3 tiers costing 10, 40 and 90 tech points respectively.
Financial:
Tier 1: +1 income per bank
Tier 2: +2 income per bank
Tier 3: +3 income per bank

Fortification:
Tier 1: +1 on defensive rolls (fleets and armies)
Tier 2: +2 on defensive rolls (fleets and armies)
Tier 3: +3 on defensive rolls (fleets and armies)

Logistics:
Tier 1: +1 on offensive rolls (fleets and armies)
Tier 2: +2 on offensive rolls (fleets and armies)
Tier 3: +3 on offensive rolls (fleets and armies)

Portal:
Tier 1: fleets and armies can teleport over a distance of 2.
Tier 2: fleets and armies can teleport over a distance of 3.
Tier 3: fleets and armies can teleport over a distance of 4.

Ascension:
Tier 1: no effect.
Tier 2: no effect.
Tier 3: win the game.

Added edit history, clarified that you can disband fleets/ameis at will.
Clarified that construction happens at the end of turn.
Added NPC resources.
Added turn order.
explained that building ships (and armies, though it doesn't matter) comes before resources in the turn order.

Servitude is now gone- once bought adventurers are your slaves until they die.
Armor calculation is more straightforward.
You may now move before attacking whether your attack is ranged or melee. (Thus making agility more important)
All engine upgrades from the end of the last thread are incorporated, obviously.

As the game progresses, you gain access to various Locations that where you can send an Expedition. An expedition consists of one or more Adventurer, who may come from various players or player coalitions. Each expedition has a cost, which represents the expense in supplies of getting each Adventurer to that particular location, and this fee must be paid for every Adventurer in the expedition.
Unless stated otherwise, each location can be sent multiple expeditions.

Each expedition is a string of Events:

• Foraging: You get some minor loot.
• Chests: pass a stat and item test to get significantly more loot
• Traps: pass a stat test or take damage (or, possibly later, debuffs)
• Encounters: kill enemies and get their loot

(all skill tests are on a standard "roll-under" system. You roll a d20 and must get a number less than a particular stat to succeed)

Combat works as follows:
There are a number of rounds, usually 100, during which first all the adventurers move, then all the adversaries.
On their turn a combatant may attack and/or move. If they do both, they can only travel half as far.
A combatant in melee may only use melee attacks, while a combatant not in melee may only use ranged attacks.
(It is currently impossible to select a specific target for these attacks, but it may be added in the future if the game takes off)
Melee attacks are strength checks, you must roll under your strength modified by enemy armor class in order to hit them. If you do, damage is rolled. (there is currently no way to reduce damage)
Ranged attacks are dexterity checks, modified by distance- the more range increments away the enemy is (rounded down) the higher the penalty, but are otherwise like melee attacks.
You may specify at what range you would like to begin firing and at what range you would like to stay away from your enemies.
Combat is won when there are no more enemies, lost when there are no more adventurers and tied if neither side wins after the time limit.
In order to prevent exploiting draws, preferred range can never be more be more than firing range, and is auto-set to 0 if you have no ammo or no ranged weapon at all.

• Weight: how much carry capacity the weapon takes to carry and use
• Damage: the amount of damage a weapon can deal, expressed as XdY+Z, where X is the amount of dice being rolled, Y is how many sides they have and Z is a constant modifier.
• AC: attribute correction is added (or subtracted, if negative) to the governing stat before the roll
• Piercing: how good the weapon is at avoiding armor. None- normal armor, Half- only needs to beat half of the Armor, Full- ignore armor, and Double- enemy Armor is doubled.

Additionally for ranged weapons:

• Range Increment: how good your weapon is at longer ranges: for each full range increment the enemy is away from you, you suffer a -1 penalty on your Dexterity.
• Ammo/Ammo Max: how much ammo the weapon has/comes with.
• Reload: how long in turns do you have to reload the weapon.

All items have a Weight (how much carry capacity it takes to carry) and a Value (how much you will get selling it to the store.) Consumable Items have a limited amount of Uses.

There are 2 ways to buy something (or someone):
You can bid on it: bidding starts at the listed price and proceeds by adding 10% of the item's starting price (rounded down) to the previous bid.
Or you can buy it outright: pay double the current (or minimum) bid to get the item right now.
Services, being nearly infinite can just be bought for the listed price.

Once an Expedition is complete, if an adventurer gains enough XP, they will gain a level.
At each level up an adventurer gains 1d6 HPMax (and HP) modified by their Constitution stat. Additionally they will gain 1 point in a stat of your choice.
XP needed to level up is as follows:

• 0 (all adventurers start as level1)
• 1000
• 3000
• 6000
• 11000
• 18000
• 27000
• 39000
• 54000
• 72000

You may submit orders by PM if you wish, additionally if you don't want to change orders, you don't need to resubmit them every turn (but you can.)
Every time you need to pick up some loot, a random position is picked on the loot table. However most loot tables have an 'again' outcome, which means "discard this roll, and roll twice on the same table", which is what allows you to receive multiple items from one loot drop. There is no natural limit to how much stuff you can get, however receiving more than about 40 items is impossible (not to mention absurdly unlikely) due to stack overflow.
If 2 or more adventurers are in a fight together, you may designate them as front and back row. Back row adventurers will not try to outrun the front row ones, if there are any.
You may designate a certain amount of hit points below which the adventurer will stop adventuring. This is useful if you don't want your adventurer to get into fights with little to no HP. Note that this is only checked after the fight/trap and is no guarantee of your adventurer's survival.
You can't wear 2 backpacks. You also generally can't wear 2 armors, unless it's clear they will not hinder each other (So you can't wear Hide Armor with Leather Armor, but you could with a hypothetical Ring of Deflection)

I'm sure you're privately collecting data on how dangerous each enemy and location is. Making this data public (to be displayed in the second post) can be quite lucrative- Charmark authorities set aside a small sum to be paid for such information. Aside from crunchy data, descriptions and sketches are accepted.

You learn from the natives of a powerful precursor artifact called the Great Pearl of Charmark. Some legends say it is the ultimate weapon, others that it allows one to transcend this dimension. Sceptics say that it is a bauble of purely symbolic significance. One thing is clear: whoever finds it will secure a place in history as some of the greatest tomb raiders archeologists who ever lived, while all others will be forgotten. (finding GPC is the win condition of the game)

Name: Mr. Smith
Cash: 3₣
Items: None
Adventurers retained: None

INTRODUCTION:

The Cosmic Conquest has begun! Players (maximum of 12) take control of a Space Faction, a Color (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Orange, Silver, Purple, White, Teal, Pink, Blue, Grey), create their Stellar Admiral (read below), choose a Technology Tree (Tachyon, Psionic, BioMech, ChronoTech) and embark on a quest to conquer neighboring star systems and establish their Intergalactic Empire!

Only then can they launch a campaign to unite the cosmos and declare themselves the Supreme Overlord of the Universe!

STELLAR ADMIRALS:

When you first establish your Space Faction, you must create your Stellar Admiral. They need a Name/Title and 2 Positive Traits. For extra cosmic flavor, try a mix of futuristic and/or alien name generation!
They also have a Command Value (CV), which value depends on random roll and Rank. You can assign your Stellar Admiral to personally Lead an Attack or Defense to increase the roll result by that value - they require at least 1 Resource Unit assigned to them to perform the task (can't go to battle on an empty fuel tank!).
If the Attack/Defense they were Leading fails, a Coin Toss is used to determine what happens; on Heads, your Stellar Admiral returns home; on Tails, they die.

Stellar Admiral Ranks:
Supreme: Highest rank, every Player starts as one. CV Roll: 5-7. 2 Positive Traits.
High: Second rank, once your Supreme Admiral dies in combat, you get a randomly generated High Admiral. CV Roll: 3-5. 1 Positive Trait.
Low: Third rank, once your replacement High Admiral dies in combat, you get a randomly generated Low Admiral; all subsequent replacements will also be Low Admirals. CV Roll: 1-3. 1 Positive and 1 Negative Trait. Low Admirals will be promoted to High by gaining 1-3CV and (coin toss) either losing their negative trait or gaining a random positive one, if they survive for 10 turns.

Stellar Admiral's Traits (positive/negative, mutually exclusive listed in pairs):
Conqueror/Weak: +2/-2 to all Attack rolls.
Defender/Unprepared: +2/-2 to all Defense rolls.
Strategist/Overcautious: -1/+1 Resource Unit required when Investing.
Diplomat/Arrogant: Conquering reduces Resource Units by 1 less/Conquering reduces Resource Units by 1 extra.
Resourceful/-: +5 Resource Unit score.
-/Indecisive: Cannot dedicate more than 15 Resource Units to a singular Attack, Defense, or Invest action.
-/Inefficient: Cannot create Drones.

TURN ORDER:

The turns of all Players are SIMULTANEOUS. Orders can be sent through Personal Messages to the GM, or if you're not caring about what people see, in the game thread itself.

For your orders to be valid, they must be bolded using the forum bbcode.

A simple example of a Player's turn:

5 Resource Units for Defense of Sol.
5 Resource Units to Invest in Sol.
10 Resource Units for Conquest of Alpha Centauri.

You cannot edit your orders once you've sent the post! Think twice before posting!!

STALLED TURNS AND EXTENSIONS:
Any player may request a reasonable extension to finish their turn. Unreasonable/constant extensions may be declined by GM.
If an extension is not requested (or was declined) any player who has not submitted a turn within 72 hours (please note the Psionic ability though!)  will either:

• Spread all their resource units and drones across their borders as equally as possible
• or (if no borders yet exist) invest in their own star systems as equally as possible

CONQUESTS, DEFENSE, AND THE DIE OF WAR:

Once you decide to conquer some of your neighbours, you must know that each combat is resolved using a d10 die. You can only conquer Star Systems adjacent to the ones you control.

Combat formula is simple: d10 + resource units + drones = your number. If you roll higher than the opponents' defending force, you win and the System is yours!

If a System is attacked by more than 1 Player at once, the resources and drones spent on Defense is spread as equally as possible with any leftover spent against the Player with highest amount number dedicated to the conquest.
If a Lordship is defeated by more than 1 Player at once, the control of the Lordship falls into the hands of the Player that dedicated more 'raw' resources into the Lordship's Conquest. In case of draws, a Coin Toss decides the victor.

Once a Star System is conquered, inevitably there will be looting, pillaging and destruction at hands of victorious soldiers. The resource output of the Lordship is thus HALVED, and the new owner of the devastated system will need to re-invest into it. This can lead to Devastation:

Devastated Stars Systems are systems that have 0 resource output; it is not possible to launch attacks from Devastated Systems, and one must first Invest in them to be able to launch attacks from it in the next Turn.

SPACE FACTIONS AND INTERGALACTIC EMPIRES:

The map is divided into 33 Star Systems, each with its own name. A Player starts with one Star System.

Each Star System starts with 10 Resource Units, which is used to support their forces when conquering and defending, and can be used to invest into systems so that they generate more Resource Units.

To create an Intergalactic Empire, you must rule over 4 Star Systems in a continuous manner at the start of a Turn. This allows you to announce the creation of an Intergalactic Empire when sending your orders for thatTurn to the GM.

There's a special Resource Unit bonus for being an Intergalactic Empire: a non-Star System dependent +5 to your Resource Unit count (+10 if you specialize in Tachyon Technology), and this bonus persists until the end of the game (or your early demise).

Your main goal, however, is to become the Supreme Overlord of the Universe. There are three requirements for this:

A) It must be Turn 10 or later.
B) You must have more Total Resource Units than all other Player combined.
C) You must have more Star Systems under your control than any other Player.

At the start of a Turn that these three requirements are fulfilled by any Player, that Player wins the Cosmic Conquest!

INDEPENDENT STAR SYSTEMS:

Non-Player Star Systems will always dedicate themselves to the defense of their borders, meaning that 10 Resource Units will always be spent on Defense.

The independent Star Systems will never use Resource Units for Conquests, nor will they Invest Resource Units to improve their economy. Fools, all of them!

RESOURCE UNITS AND INVESTMENTS:

Resource Units are used threefold; to supply forces fighting abroad or defending the systems, to improve the Resource Unit count of the Star System, or to be converted into Drones.

If you do not dedicate any Resource Units to the defense of a Star System, any opportunistic Player can simply move their own Resource Units into it and automatically take control of the system!
The more Resource Units you dedicate for defense, the greater the chances of repelling the enemy. The same goes for conquering your neighbors; the more Resource Units you set aside for the conquest, the greater the chances of success.

You can also Invest your Resource Units in a Star System that you control. Each Star System at the start lets you use 10 Resource Units per Turn.
For each 5 Resource Units Invested into a Star System, the Star System will provide you with 1 extra Resource Unit, starting from the next Turn.

Example: You have 90 Resource Units, and your home Star System, Solaria, provides you with 15 Resource Units. If you invest half of your Resource Units, 45, into Solaria, this will raise Solaria's Resource Unit output to 24 (15 + [45/5=9] = 24).

The maximum amount of Resource Units a Star System can reach is 30.

DRONES IN YOUR SERVICE:

Drones are Resource Units that were converted into advanced robotic warriors. Drones are counted separately from Resource Units.

Every Turn, you can raise 1 Drone from every Star System you rule over - specify which Star System(s) to raise Drone(s) from when sending orders. This reduces the Star System's Resource Units by 1, so make sure you don't run out of Resource Units by overzealously converting them into Drones! Of course, Star Systems with 0 Resource Units cannot provide you with Drones.

Drones can no longer be used to Invest in a Star System, but they do provide a +3 Bonus to rolls for any Attack or Defense they're assigned to. Freshly-raised Drones cannot be assigned to Attacks/Defenses.

Note that Drones, being advanced machines, require energy to function, therefore you cannot send Drones to Attack or Defense without assigning at least 1 Resource Unit to them.

Drones, unlike their masters, do not have self-repair capabilities - therefore if an Attack/Defense led by Drone(s) fails, the Drones assigned to the operation are destroyed!

TECHNOLOGY TREES:

When creating your Space Faction, you must decide which Technology Tree you will specialize in; all 4 grant certain benefits to you.

Tachyon: Advanced energy manipulation technologies grant unmatched power in combat and resource management. Bonuses:

Intergalactic Empire bonus increased from +5 to +10 Resource Units.
Attack rolls receive a +1 bonus.
Drones provide a +4 bonus to rolls for any Attack or Defense, instead of +3.

Psionic: Harness the power of the mind to manipulate allies and enemies alike. Bonuses:
Gain access to the Telepathic Insight ability, which can be used once per Turn, to reveal the orders of another Player for that Turn (this does not count as submitting your turn, but just like it can only be done once! Additionally, if the targeted player stalls (or is very late), you will have an extra 24 hours from their submission to submit your own turn.) Psionics are immune to Telepathic Insight.
Gain access to the Psychic Sabotage ability, which can be used once per Turn, to disrupt an enemy's Star System, reducing its Resource Unit output by up to 3 for the next turn. (reminder that you can't attack from unproductive star systems!)
Gain access to the Psychic Assault ability, which can be used once per Turn, to reduce the effectiveness of an enemy's Attack or Defense in one Star System by 2 for that Turn.

BioMech: Biologically enhanced technology and hybrid organisms provide adaptive capabilities. Bonuses:
Drones defeated in battle regenerate at a rate of 1 per Turn in each Star System without needing to spend resources.
Drones provide a +2 bonus to rolls for any Defense, for a total of +5.
Raises a Star System's maximum Resource Units from 30 to 35 for as long as it is held by that player.

ChronoTech: Time manipulation and control over the fabric of time itself. Bonuses:
Gain access to the Time Skip ability, which can be used once per Turn, to temporarily increase your Resource Unit output by 5 in one of your Star Systems for that Turn.
Investment efficiency increased - investing 4 Resource Units (instead of 5) results in an additional Resource Unit for a Star System.
Gain access to the Temporal Stasis ability, which can be used once per Turn, to make one of your Star Systems immune to any Attacks for that Turn.  The system does not contribute resource points this turn.

DIPLOMACY:

Players can form alliances, and negotiate with one another at any time during the game. Diplomacy can be conducted via Personal Messages or in the game thread. While Players are encouraged to keep their word and maintain diplomatic relationships, there is no formal rule against breaking an agreement or betraying an ally.

VICTORY:

The game continues until a Player is declared the Supreme Overlord of the Universe or all Players agree to end the game in a draw.

CONCLUSION:

Now that you have the rules of Cosmic Conquest, gather your friends, select your Space Faction and Technology Tree, create your Stellar Admiral, and embark on the journey to conquer the cosmos! Will you form alliances or betray your neighbors? Will you specialize in offense, defense, or resource management? The choice is yours, and the universe awaits your rule!

As the game progresses, you gain access to various Locations that where you can send an Expedition. An expedition consists of one or more Adventurer, who may come from various players or player coalitions. Each expedition has a cost, which represents the expense in supplies of getting each Adventurer to that particular location, and this fee must be paid for every Adventurer in the expedition.
Unless stated otherwise, each location can be sent multiple expeditions.

Each expedition is a string of Events:

• Foraging: You get some minor loot.
• Chests: pass a stat and item test to get significantly more loot
• Traps: pass a stat test or take damage (or, possibly later, debuffs)
• Encounters: kill enemies and get their loot

(all skill tests are on a standard "roll-under" system. You roll a d20 and must get a number less than a particular stat to succeed)

Combat works as follows:
There are a number of rounds, usually 100, during which first all the adventurers move, then all the adversaries.
On their turn a combatant may attack and/or move. If they do both, they can only travel half as far.
A combatant in melee may only use melee attacks, while a combatant not in melee may only use ranged attacks.
(It is currently impossible to select a specific target for these attacks, but it may be added in the future if the game takes off)
Melee attacks are strength checks, you must roll under your strength, but above the enemy's armor class in order to hit them. If you do, damage is rolled. (there is currently no way to reduce damage)
Ranged attacks are dexterity checks, modified by distance- the more range increments away the enemy is (rounded down) the higher the penalty, but are otherwise like melee attacks.
You may specify at what range you would like to begin firing and at what range you would like to stay away from your enemies.
Combat is won when there are no more enemies, lost when there are no more adventurers and tied if neither side wins after the time limit.
In order to prevent exploiting draws, preferred range can never be more be more than firing range, and is auto-set to 0 if you have no ammo or no ranged weapon at all.

• Weight: how much carry capacity the weapon takes to carry and use
• Damage: the amount of damage a weapon can deal, expressed as XdY+Z, where X is the amount of dice being rolled, Y is how many sides they have and Z is a constant modifier.
• AC: attribute correction is added (or subtracted, if negative) to the governing stat before the roll
• Piercing: how good the weapon is at avoiding armor. None- normal armor, Half- only needs to beat half of the Armor, Full- ignore armor, and Double- enemy Armor is doubled.

Additionally for ranged weapons:

• Range Increment: how good your weapon is at longer ranges: for each full range increment the enemy is away from you, you suffer a -1 penalty on your Dexterity.
• Ammo/Ammo Max: how much ammo the weapon has/comes with.
• Reload: how long in turns do you have to reload the weapon.

All items have a Weight (how much carry capacity it takes to carry) and a Value (how much you will get selling it to the store.) Consumable Items have a limited amount of Uses.

There are 2 ways to buy something (or someone):
You can bid on it: bidding starts at the listed price and proceeds by adding 10% of the item's starting price (rounded down) to the previous bid.
Or you can buy it outright: pay double the current (or minimum) bid to get the item right now.
Services, being nearly infinite can just be bought for the listed price.

Once an Expedition is complete, if an adventurer gains enough XP, they will gain a level.
At each level up an adventurer gains 1d6 HPMax (and HP) modified by their Constitution stat. Additionally they will gain 1 point in a stat of your choice.
XP needed to level up is as follows:

• 0 (all adventurers start as level1)
• 1000
• 3000
• 6000
• 11000
• 18000
• 27000
• 39000
• 54000
• 72000

You may submit orders by PM if you wish, additionally if you don't want to change orders, you don't need to resubmit them every turn (but you can.)
Every time you need to pick up some loot, a random position is picked on the loot table. However most loot tables have an 'again' outcome, which means "discard this roll, and roll twice on the same table", which is what allows you to receive multiple items from one loot drop. There is no natural limit to how much stuff you can get, however receiving more than about 40 items is impossible (not to mention absurdly unlikely) due to stack overflow.

Name: Mr. Smith
Cash: 3₣
Items: None
Adventurers retained: None