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Spiritual sites are half site, half enhancement.  There will be some that are good enhancements and some that are evil enhancements.  They count has 0.5 good/evil cards in T2 or T3 decks.  They are treated as sites with special abilities for deck-building purposes, unless they have more than one color for the site; then they they are treated as multicolor sites.  And if the enhancement has more than one brigade, then they follow the rules for enhancements with more than one brigade.  And if they are both multi-enhancement and multicolor site, then the lower limit is used.

In hand or deck, they are both an enhancement and a site, and can be targeted for search as either, like Curses and Covenants. 

If they are played in battle as an enhancement, they activate the enhancement ability.  At battle resolution, when all enhancements are discarded, spiritual sites are instead placed in territory as a site.  At that point, they function as a site for the remainder of the game, and cannot function as an enhancement (unless they are reset by discard/shuffle/etc.).

If they are played in territory outside battle as a site, they function as a site.  However, they can be added to battle as an enhancement when you have normal initiative in battle with the same brigade as the enhancement.  After battle, they would return to territory (instead of being discarded) as described above, never again to enter battle as an enhancement (except for resetting events).

The first spiritual site below was my inspiration for them.  Marah was where the Israelites, traveling across the desert for 3 days, found much-needed water that was too bitter to drink.  Of course, the Israelites complained to Moses; at Marah, I saw both characteristics of a site and of an enhancement.

Marah (Exodus 15:23-24)
Spiritual site:  Gold/Green site, Brown evil enhancement
"Force a hero in a territory or your hand to fight all heroes in battle.  Cannot be negated if an Exodus hero or Complainers are in play."

Since the site is multicolor, and the enhancement is single-color, Marah is limited to one per deck (multicolor site).  And it makes the heroes in battle fight as one, since it was the entire Israelite community complaining.

Here's another one.  Gibeon, home of the Gibeonites, was attacked by King Adoni-zadek soon after the Gibeonites tricked Joshua and the Israelites into a treaty.  This was the battle where Joshua prayed to have the sun and moon stand still so that he could destroy the enemy army.  There was no escape for the enemy, so even if the additional battle is a battle challenge, your opponent must present an evil character if able.

Gibeon (Joshua 10:12)
Spiritual site:  Red site, Gold good enhancement
"If Joshua is in play and you do not rescue a lost soul this battle, you may make an additional attack this turn (limit 1 per turn).  If it is a battle challenge, opponent must present an evil character from hand or territory."

I'm pretty sure I designed this so it can't be abused with Ambush the City.  The rule of "1 successful rescue attempt per turn" should be sufficient here. 

Very cool idea!

Would they still work as enhancements in battle if they are occupied? i missed that detail

Would they still work as enhancements in battle if they are occupied? i missed that detail

If they are occupied, and you add one to battle as an enhancement, the LS stays in LoB.  That would be part of the "definition" of how Spiritual Sites work.

Other issue that would need to be looked at is the site limit, which I don't see in your explanation of how it works with the current rules.  These would could against the 1 Site per 1 LS rule, correct?

Spiritual sites are still sites for the LS/site limit, and would count towards the one site per LS rule.

Quote from: TechnoEthicist on February 03, 2013, 12:58:07 PM

Would they still work as enhancements in battle if they are occupied? i missed that detail

If they are occupied, and you add one to battle as an enhancement, the LS stays in LoB.  That would be part of the "definition" of how Spiritual Sites work.

That would substantially change the way sites work, so I would recommend against treating them differently than normal sites.  You should not be able to "add a site" to battle as an enhancement, that's too much of a gameplay change and goes against our current comparisons (Curses, Covenants) as well as moving too many rules around, too much "Do this, except in these cases..."

Rather, just have the site have an ability that can affect the battle if certain conditions are met, just like sites do currently, and allow them to be played as enhancements from hand instead.

Is there something that prevents me from using this ability multiple times in a turn? 

It appears not.  I'll change so that it says "second" instead of "additional".  I know for a fact that you cannot make more than one "second" attack in the same turn 

The problem with that is that in a lot of (all?) cases, the word "second" is treated as the word "additional". So older banding cards that allow a "second" character to join the battle have Play As that say "additional".

I would have thought that, when describing battles, "second" always means "second", not "additional".  But I can change the wording to get around this.