BlogNomic: The Third Dynasty of Derrick

Change
“If the military situation has been greater than 3 or less than negative 3 for 48 hours, and no new court allies have been associated with for 48 hours, a wizard with more influence than any other wizard has achieved victory.”
to

If the military situation has been greater than 3 or less than negative 3 for 48 hours, and no court allies, aside from Councilor Arnok, have been associated with for 12 hours, a wizard with more influence than each other wizard has achieved victory.

Add “Councilor Arnok” to the list of “the possible identities of Court Allies”, then add him (Councilor Arnok) to a random Wizard’s court allies, with 5 trust.

Having not commented or posted in more than a week.

7 Wizards, quorum of 4.

Increase the Favor of all Wizards by 10.

Battlefield: Royal Forest
Valid Opponents: Kaia
Valid Judges: [default]

Remove “As a daily action, a Wizard may submit a Portrait post to the blog, which contains the word “Portrait” in the title, an animal which exists in a stable and has not appeared in a portrait post before and a link to an image of the animal of the Wizard’s own rendition. When a Wizard makes a Portrait post, they may gain 1 Food.” from the rule “Creature”.

Add to “Food”:

As a daily action, a Wizard can spend up to 10 Food to gain Favor equal to that amount spent, or reduce another player’s Favor by that amount spent.

Replace the paragraph:

If a wizard has been allied to His Majesty for more than 48 hours and the military situation has been greater than 3 for 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory. If a wizard has been allied to the ambassador for more than 48 hours and the military situation has been less than negative 3 for 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory.

with:

If a wizard has been allied to His Majesty for the preceding 48 hours and the military situation has been greater than 3 for the preceding 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory. If a wizard has been allied to the ambassador for the preceding 48 hours and the military situation has been less than negative 3 for the preceding 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory.

Update each Wizard’s Allies so that each Wizard is allied to no identities.

Then, for each of the identities of Court Allies, make a random Wizard become allied to that identity with a Trust of 5.

A rare glimpse of this reclusive creature: https://imgur.com/a/oEqzFxh

Full-sized rendition.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/b5ph6jgF88j6Wgv6A

Amend:

A wizard may “associate” with a court ally by selecting an identity, spending an amount of favor greater which is both greater than zero and greater than the trust of any court allies in the GNDT with that identity, removing any courtly allies in the GNDT with that identity, and adding to their court allies an ally with the chosen identity and a trust equal to the court favor spent.

To:

A wizard may “associate” with a court ally by selecting an identity, spending an amount of favor which is both greater than zero and greater than the trust of any court allies with that identity, then transferring (or adding, if they are associated to nobody yet) to their court allies an ally with the chosen identity and setting their trust to the court favor spent.

Battlefield: Subterranean Falls.
Valid Opponent: Kaia.
Valid Judge: Derrick.
No items
Fox only
Final destination

Add to the rule “Court Politics”:

A wizard’s influence is equal to the number of his court allies, plus two if the military situation is greater than three and they allied to his majesty, plus two if the military situation is less than negative three and they are allied to the Ambassador.

As a weekly communal action, the trust of all courtly allies may be raised by the campaign number of the most recent campaign

Change:

If a wizard has been allied to His Majesty for more than 48 hours and the military situation has been greater than 3 for 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory. If a wizard has been allied to the ambassador for more than 48 hours and the military situation has been less than negative 3 for 48 hours, that wizard has achieved victory.

To:

If the military situation has been greater than 3 or less than negative 3 for 48 hours, and no new court allies have been associated with for 48 hours, a wizard with more influence than any other wizard has achieved victory.

In Fair Play, change
“A Wizard should not deliberately and unreasonably prolong the performance of a game action once they have started it.”
to

A Wizard should not deliberately and unreasonably prolong the performance of a game action once they have started it, nor similarly prolong the non-performance of a game action which is required of them by the rules.

Add a new rule called “The Strongest Spell”:

As a weekly action, a Wizard can cast the Strongest Spell by pointing their finger at a screen their choice, having their thumb raised too, and saying “Bang!” out loud; along spending an amount of Food equal to the Upkeep of a Creature plus 3 and making a blog post that is clearly for the purpose of this action. Upon doing so, that Creature is unceremoniously removed from its Wizard’s stable.

That blog post shall then be also considered a Duel, with the City Gates as battlefield, the King as its only valid Judge and the Druid as its only valid Opponent. The Druid should accept this Duel whenever possible, stating how guns aren’t real magic, with the challenger optionally scoffing back smugly with conviction that they actually are.

In “Creature”, replace “If a Wizard has not done so in the previous 24 hours they may” with:-

As a daily action, a Wizard may

In “Duel”, replace “The duelists must submit a plan by sending a private message” with “Each duelist may submit a plan by sending a private message”.

Replace “If 48 hours have passed since the start of the duel and only one of the duelists has submitted a valid plan, that duelist is the Triumphant. If 48 hours have passed and neither duelist submitted a valid plan, a Triumphant is decided by way of a random DICE2 roll in the GNDT. ” with:-

If 48 hours have passed since the start of the duel and only one of the duelists has submitted a valid plan, the Judge may declare that duelist to be the Triumphant. If 48 hours have passed and neither duelist submitted a valid plan, the Judge may randomly select one of those duelists as the Triumphant.

Replace “The judge must then post a comment on the duel’s blog entry detailing the creature slots, Strengths, wins, and which duelist was the Triumphant.” with:-

The judge may then post a comment on the duel’s blog entry detailing the creature slots, Strengths, wins, and which duelist was the Triumphant.

Add a new rule called “Compulsory”:

An action is Compulsory if:
- The rules compel a Wizard to perform it (eg. “a Wizard must...”).
- The Wizard can perform it.
- The Wizard has all of the minimum amount of information needed to perform the action, granted via explicit rule-defined mechanisms.

While a Wizard has an action that is Compulsory for them to do, they cannot perform any non-Compulsory dynastic actions.

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Another ten-second masterpiece: https://imgur.com/a/nBiprIs

Inspired by Farsight’s latest tactic.
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Add to the rule “Duel”:

If seven days have passed since a duel’s blog entry was posted and it has no opponent, any wizard or the king may close it by making a comment on the entry stating that they are doing so. A closed Duel ceases to be a duel.

And Change:

The Triumphant’s favour increases by the mean average Strength for that Battle of the other duelist’s creature slots, rounding up.

to:

The Triumphant’s favour increases by three, plus one if creature with gaudy is in their stable.

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Just claiming the daily Food bonus: https://imgur.com/a/ibhBxeE

https://photos.app.goo.gl/C5a2yNShbmuqLnKf9

I’m doing a rare (for me) color image.

Add to the rule “Duel”:

If seven days have passed since a duel’s blog entry was posted and it has no opponent, any wizard or the king may close it by making a comment on the entry stating that they are doing so. A closed Duel ceases to be a duel.

And Change:

The Triumphant’s favour increases by the mean average Strength for that Battle of the other duelist’s creature slots, rounding up.

to:

The Triumphant’s favour increases by three, plus one if creature with gaudy is in their stable.

Behold the swan in all its wrongness!

https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=File:Winged_Gaudy_Venomous_Swan2.jpg

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The Druid Challenges Ienpw III to a duel!

The battle field is the city walls. Any wizard except Ienpw II may be judge. Ienpw III is the only valid opponent.

Change “Any Wizard may announce a duel,” to

The Druid may announce a duel,

Remove Queen from among TyGuy6’s court allies.

Amend the first paragraph of “Food” to:

Each Wizard has an amount of Food stockpiled for their creatures, tracked in the GNDT and defaulting to zero.

As a weekly action, the King may perform a Harvest, which is the following Atomic action:
- Increase each Wizard’s food by 10.
- Increase the Food of the Wizards allied to the Chamberlain or Treasurer by 3.
- For each Wizard, be their X the sum of their total Upkeep of every Creature in their Stable plus (if the Wizard has it) the Upkeep of their Underling Type. If X is greater than their Food amount, lower their Favor by the (math) difference between X and their Food amount (down to a minimum of 0), then set their Food to 0. Otherwise, decrease their Food by X.

Replace “Two creatures with the same qualities (not considering order) and creature type are the same creature.” with:-

Two creatures with the same qualities (not considering order) and creature type are considered to be Equivalent.

Replace “A wizard may not add a creature to their stable if that creature is in another wizard’s stable.” with:-

A wizard may not add a creature to their stable if an Equivalent creature is in another wizard’s stable.

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For each Creature which has more than one of the same Quality, remove all but one copies of that Quality from it.

In “Creature”, replace “A quality may be added to a creature more than once, but no creature may have more than 3 of the same quality.” with:-

A Creature may not have more than one of the same Quality.

Royal Swamp
Judge: Derrick
Rest default
Let’s go

This dynasty is neat, but I can’t keep up! Idling myself. Quorum becomes 5.

For reference, “Numbers and Variables” stated:
“If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers. Any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset.”

Change
“The kingdom has a military situation, tracked as an integer in the GNDT field of the king for courtly favor.”
to

The kingdom has a military situation, tracked in the GNDT field of the king for courtly favor, with the set of all integers as it’s valid values.

Set the military situation to -1.

Add to the first paragraph of Duels:

The Judge can be specified to be “Hash” by the Challenger, in which case the Hash variant applies.

Add to Duels:

The Hash variant of a Duel requires the challenger to state their list of creature slots for the battle as a comment to the duel’s post instead, in a hash, once the Opponent has been assigned and within 48 hours. Within 48 hours from that, the opponent must publicly post their list of creature slots as a comment to the Duel’s post. Within 48 hours of that, the challenger must reveal the hash they used and the creature list that they submitted for this Duel, as well as resolve the Duel as a judge would with the two given lists.

In the subrule Closing a Campaign replace

(excluding creatures which are Armored or forces commanded by Wizards who are allied with the Northern General).

with

(excluding creatures which are Armored or forces commanded by Wizards who are allied with the Southern General).

Add to the rule “The Druid”.

If the creatures in a Wizard’s Stable contain between them 3 or more instances of the Quality “Wild”, that Wizard may not be considered “Unnatural”.