Failed 13-7. Quorum against.—alethiophile
Adminned at 16 Dec 2009 18:32:26 UTC
Add a dynastic rule “Self Flagellation” with the following text:
If any adventurer takes a game action, that requires or uses power and does not already include a penalty, that adventurer shall increase their corruption by the amount of power required or used, whichever is greater.
My understanding is that power does not corrupt unless it is used, and/or insufficiently punished when abused.
You don’t need to add the “Flavor text” formatting. Just put it in the box. 
The “requires or uses power” bit seems a bit vague (understandable in that nobody knows how it’s going to work yet), but not enough to sink the proposal.
AFAICT, “requires or uses power” means that the action either subtracts a certain number from your Power (“uses”), or simply requires a certain minimum Power value to carry out (“requires”). It seems unambiguous enough to me, if a bit unclear superficially.
“Penalty” seems much vaguer to me than “requires or uses power”.
I agree with Orn, “penalty” is too vague for this rule to be functional.
Yeah, I don’t like the word penalty, being so undefined, but I figure that since there are no power based actions right now, I will have enough time to propose a definition to add to the rule. I tried to phrase it vaguely enough to be usable. Too much I guess.
Something like “For the purposes of this rule a game action is not considered to have a penalty unless the rule that enacted the aforementioned game action, specifically states that it does have a penalty.”
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