The Rivers & Roads expansion adds two new core construction options to the already pretty plentiful array of buildings on offer in the core game. These are, it will come as no great revelation to discover, rivers and, indeed, roads.
Roads are dead simple: you score 1 point for every building adjacent to a road, and the player with the longest single road gets a bonus 7 points. Rivers are placed before the game begins, and every building adjacent to them scores double – if those buildings are also enclosed by a wall, they score triple. Big, big rewards.
But Era never gives with both hands. As one hands you a delicious garibaldi the other’s reaching up to tweak you on the nose. Three skulls on the dice mean your river will flood, creating useless flooded areas that block your ability to build.