I got another couple!

WoW style necropolis which flys and is able to teleport around.

A teleporting phone booth which is bigger on the inside than it appears.

Your thread has given me a similar idea which may be fun in single player. A building which travels backwards in time. It of course would not be useable in multiplayer, since time travel is hard enough to pull off with one player. Essentially, if you lose a big battle or something goes terribly wrong, you send your channeler off to the building you previously discovered and it will essentially undo your previous X number of turns (3 or so?). The resulting instability of the space-time continuum causes the building to be destroyed the moment your channeler leaves. And for added fun (so you don't know exactly what the enemy is going to do in a turn or two) it will add in some random stuff which is almost to minor to be noticed, but which hurts the player if they don't figure out what is different (something to the tune of half your sheep turning into rabid dogs or other odd occurance). After all, there are consequences for messing with time...

We could call it... 4XRP

Explore... Expand... Exploit... Exterminate... Roleplay...

Seriously though, you do bring up a good point. Having a small, mobile civilization would be an interesting alternative to my normal turtling. You would still be able to build up your power, albiet more slowly, without worrying about getting bogged down in any big wars... Heck, it would likely be the best defensive strategy, but at the price of a large, powerful civilization.

Awesomeness! Totally agree with NT.

Or read Fritz Lieber's fabulous Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories.

Here's hoping an artsy modder can give us that one soon after RTM.

Fafhrd and the Mouser are *the* dynamic duo of classical fantasy lit, IMO. I don't remember how many appearances Baba Yaga makes in the stories. My sloppy memory is that she's an occasional 'guest star' playing a role similar to the regular scary entity advisors Ningaugble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face. But the hut was striking, especially because I read the stories when I was still doing some tabletop RPGs.

I definitely recommend giving Lieber's Nehwon stories a try if you never have. It might be too 'decadent' for folks who like their fantasy in Hollywood pure black and true white, but the imagined world is really strong and more than a few D&D friends of mine loved the stuff too.