BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Replace the text in the rule Ruleset Theft

Roll “Stealing a Rule: DICEX” in the GNDT, where X is the number of active nomics listed at http://www.nomic.net/~nomicwiki/index.php/AliveStatus

with

Roll “Stealing, DICEX” in the GNDT, where X is the number of nomics listed at http://www.nomic.net/archive.html

In the rule “[LDB] Leaders’ Debates”, change the text

and was named in at least one comment on it by at least one other Scribe

to

and was named in comments by at least as many other Scribes as the other Demagogues

I won the debate.  Granted, the other demagogues won also.  But I won first, and did such an awesome job of presenting my points that everyone else agreed with me.

Append the following official position to the end of the list in the rule Official Positions: Janitor - The Scribe that holds the position of Janitor may close a location for cleaning as daily action, but not more than 3 times in a given week. An location closed for cleaning cannot be entered by any Scribes for 24 hours after it was closed, and ceases to be closed after 24 hours. A location can only be closed for cleaning once per Weekly Report. When the Janitor closes a location for cleaning, they must make a blog post stating that they did so immediately afterwards.

In the rule “Locations”, change the text

As a daily action, a Scribe may spend 15 Energy to change their location. Upon doing so, the Stress

to

As a daily action, a Scribe may spend 15 Energy to Walk.  Upon doing so, they change their Location, then the Stress

In the rule “Remote Control”, change the text

A Scribe that has just left a Derelict’s location may spend 30 Energy to Tow it. This causes the Derelict to Rest if it can, then attempt to move to their location.

to

A Scribe that Walks out of a Derelict’s location may spend 30 Energy to Tow it. This causes the Derelict’s Location to change to match theirs after they Walk.

Reword the text of the rule “Advancing Time” (or “Advancing Time [?]”)  as follows:

If at least 48 hours have passed since Time was last Advanced, any Scribe may Advance the Time by making a post to that effect and performing the following, in order:

• Each Scribe gains M Paper, where M is the number of Scribes who have more Offenses than them.
• For each Official Position held by no Scribes, assign it to the Scribe with the fewest Official Positions; in the event of a tie the Official Position should be assigned randomly via a DICE roll in the GNDT.
• Each Scribe loses half of their Stress, rounded up, and gains that many Energy.

For too long the True Ruleset has drifted without an eye to watch the clock. No longer. Rule 2.3 of Ruleset 137, “Advancing Time,” has been appended.

Repeal the rule “Exchange”.  Increase the Editor’s Looks by 1.

In the rule “First Speaker”, change the text

that Scribe is awarded 10 points and ceases to be its Speaker

to

that Scribe Scores and ceases to be its Speaker

and the text

they may spend 5 points to resign as Speaker of that Dynasty.

to

they may spend 5 Paper to resign as Speaker of that Dynasty. When a Scribe resigns as a Speaker, they may not Attempt to Speak again for 48 hours.

Then rename the rule “First Speaker” to “[SPK] First Speaker [?]”
Unless a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the word “Ancient”, change the text

a Scribe rolls DICE68 in the GNDT to select a Dynasty with the resulting number

in the same rule to

a Scribe rolls DICE68 in the GNDT and adds 70 to select a Dynasty with the resulting number

Repeal the rule ‘Teaming Up’

Change the text in the rule ‘Teaming Up’

Two scribes who are Watching each other and have the same Status are a Team.

  to

Two scribes who are in the same Location and wish to become a Team (and confirm this in a blog post) are a Team.

Change the text in the rule ‘Teaming Up’

Two scribes who are Watching each other and have the same Status are a Team.

  to

Two scribes who are in the same Location and wish to become a Team (and confirm this in a blog post) are a Team.

Change the text in the rule ‘Teaming Up’

Two scribes who are Watching each other and have the same Status are a Team.

  to

Two scribes who are in the same Location and wish to become a Team (and confirm this in a blog post) are a Team.

Your humble Editor has completely lost track of what this topic even means, but surely RaichuKFM, Bucky and GenericPerson can elucidate.

Unmark the rule “Leaders’ Debates” (or “Leaders’ Debates [?]”) if it is Provisional, and rename it “[LDB] Leaders’ Debates”.

Add the following to that rule:

48 hours after it is first posted, a given Leaders’ Debate is Closed, and any Scribe may mark it as such. No further comments may be posted on that Leaders’ Debate. Each Demagogue who posted a comment on that Debate, and was named in at least one comment on it by at least one other Scribe, is a Winner of that Debate. A Debate Winner Scores. If a Debate Winner has already Scored under this rule, instead, their Offenses are reduced to 0.

Larrytheturtle, Qwertyu63, Bucky and RaichuKFM submitted Proposals last week, and have each been awarded 1 Paper.

RaichuKFM has the highest Looks.

For the high quality of Proposals enacted in the past week, RaichuKFM is named Scribe of the Week.

RaichuKFM wins the Raffle, is awarded 3 Paper, and becomes Cellarmaster.

Repeal the rule “Leaders’ Debates [?]”

qwertyu63
Ruleset Theft [?]

Add a new subrule to the rule “Offenses”.  Call it “Apathy” and give it the following text:

Whenever a proposal fails, if it had three or fewer valid votes on it and was neither self-killed nor vetoed, each Scribe has their Offenses incremented by one unless they authored or cast a vote on that proposal, or unidled or joined the game while it was pending.

Clucky
Ruleset Theft [?]

Repeal the rule “Sesquipedalophilia (Orange)”.

Change the text of the Proposal “Proxy Puppetry”, if it is pending, to read the following:

Add a subrule to the rule “Derelicts”.  Call it “Remote Control” and give it the following text:

A Scribe in the same location as a Derelict may spend 10 Energy to Relay it.  On doing so, they cause the Proxy to make any one comment on a blog post of their choice.

A Scribe that has just left a Derelict’s location may spend 30 Energy to Tow it.  This causes the Derelict to Rest if it can, then attempt to move to their location.

Also, change the text “as if” in the rule Sesquipedalophilia (Orange) to “as though”.

Add a subrule to the rule “Derelicts”.  Call it “Remote Control” and give it the following text:

A Scribe in the same location as a Derelict may spend 10 Energy to Relay it.  On doing so, they cause the Proxy to make any one comment on a blog post of their choice.

A Scribe that has just left a Derelict’s location may spend 30 Energy to Tow it.  This causes the Derelict to Rest if it can, then attempt to move to their location.

Also, change the text “as if” in the rule Sesquipedalophilia (Orange) to “as though”.

Remove the first sentence of the Provisional Rule called “Leaders’ Debates.” Replace all references to “Popularity” in that rule with “Looks.” Replace all references to “Debaters” in that rule with “Demagogues.”

Through a haze of substances, your humble Editor has gleaned that another—perhaps purer—fragment of the True Ruleset was hidden in rule 2.7 of Ruleset 76, “Leaders’ Debates.”

In the rule “Provisional Rules”, change the text

* Alter other Rules, or permit a person to alter those rules.

to

* Create, alter or remove any Rules, or permit a person to create, alter or remove any rules.

In the Rule “HHGTTG”, replace the phrase “If the President of the Galaxy isn’t mostly harmless, remove their Official Position as President of the Galaxy.” with “If the President of the Galaxy isn’t Harmless, any Scribe may remove their Official Position as the President of the Galaxy.”

Reword the rule “Elections (red)” to the following:

As a weekly communal action, a Scribe may open an election by making a sticky post to the blog, in the Story Post category, with the title “Election”. As a comment to such a post, any Scribe may vote for a Harmless Scribe to become the President of the Galaxy. No Scribe may cast a vote for themselves, if no other Scribe has already voted for them. Any Scribe may change their vote any number of times until voting closes, only their latest such vote shall count.

After 48 hours, the current election shall become closed to voting, and the votes may be tallied at any time thereafter by any admin. The Scribe receiving the most votes, shall become The President of the Galaxy, deposing any previous Presidents of the Galaxy.

After an election becomes closed to voting, any admin may render the post no longer a sticky post.

At the enactment of this Proposal, Brendan becomes the Editor, if they were not already, and any other Scribes cease to be the Editor.

I’m sure I’m not the first to notice, but the link we’re to steal rules from seems a bit broken. As, in fact, does the whole /~nomicwiki section of nomic.net. Now, unless that’s just a bug, or the wiki is up elsewhere, we need to pick a new list.

We could use the Wayback Machine; this seems to be the most recent cache of the page that isn’t broken. There is also a page of dead nomics, here.

I haven’t bothered to check how many of the links in either actually work, though.

I know protosals are considered bad form, but I would rather point this out faster than try to decide which of these methods I’d prefer and make a Proposal based on that, especially in case someone has a third method. By all means, if someone wants to propose a fix, either with one of those links or something else, don’t imagine I’ve put a moratorium on it.

In the rule “Elections (red)”, remove the phrase “The current Leader is Kevan.”, if it exists.

In the rule “Elections (red)”, remove the phrase “The current Editor is Kevan.”, if it exists.

In the rule “Elections (red)”, remove the phrase “This rule shall be updated to reflect the new Leader.”, if it exists.

In the rule “Elections (red)”, remove the phrase “This rule shall be updated to reflect the new Editor.”, if it exists.

Append to the end of the rule “Elections (red)” the phrase “After an election becomes closed to voting, any admin may render the post no longer a sticky post.”

In the rule “Elections (red)”, replace the phrase “making a sticky post to the blog with the title “Election”.” with “making a sticky post to the blog, in the Story Post category, with the title “Election”.”

If Brendan is not the Editor, Brendan becomes the Editor, and any Scribe other than Brendan ceases to be the Editor.

Revert the enactment of the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard”.

Replace all instances of “Leader” in the rule “Ruleset Theft” and all of its subrules (if they exist) with “Editor”

If the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard” failed, this does nothing.

If the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard” was enacted, remove the following text from the rule “[OFF] Official Positions”:

If a Scribe ever has 2 or more Official Positions at the same time, that Scribe Scores.

Then, rename the rule “[OFF] Official Positions” to “Official Positions”.

If the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard” is pending, modify the the text of the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard” by removing everything in it before this text:

Rename the rule “Vanity”

Rule 2.2 of Dynasty 69 (including all subrules except 2.2.1), “Ruleset Theft,” is part of the True Ruleset after all. Good luck!

Add the following text to the rule “Deliberations” before the paragraph containing “CRUCIAL”:

When a Deliberation enacts, the enacting Admin shall update its target Votable Matter (if it’s still pending) to reflect the changes specified in that Deliberation.

Izzoboetam and ryagami idle out after eleven and nine days of inactivity, respectively.

Quorum falls to five.

If the proposal “Light up the Scoreboard” is pending, remove everything in it before this text

Rename the rule “Vanity”

In the rule “Apocrypha”, change the text

Selecting a rule (and any number of its subrules) as specified by a Map

to

Selecting a rule as specified by a Map (and any number of its specified subrules)

I have received a map to ruleset 69, rule 2.2 (including all subrules except 2.2.1), “Ruleset Theft.” While this would be thematic and highly entertaining from the perspective of a disinterested observer, your humble Editor finds it unacceptable on the grounds that he does not actively hate all of you.

Bucky, Larrytheturtle, Sci_Guy12, Qwertyu63, RaichuKFM, and GenericPerson submitted proposals last week, and have each been awarded 1 Paper.

In addition, for authoring a dynastic proposal of high quality enacted in the previous week, Qwertyu63 is hereby named Scribe of the Week.

Bucky has won the weekly raffle, and has been awarded 3 Paper and the position of Cellarmaster.

Rename the rule “Official Positions” to “[OFF] Official Positions”.

Append the following as a new paragraph at the end of the rule now named “[OFF] Official Positions”:

If a Scribe ever has 2 or more Official Positions at the same time, that Scribe Scores.

Rename the rule “Vanity” to “[VAN] Vanity”.

Append the following as a new paragraph at the end of the rule now named “[VAN] Vanity”:

When the Editor makes a weekly report, they must declare which Scribe has the highest Looks. If the same Scribe is named this way in 2 consecutive weekly reports, that Scribe Scores.

Change the body of “Correct Guess -> Done” to read:

Create a new rule “True Champion” with the following text:

The Scribe known as Larrytheturtle has achieved victory.

Not only did I get my first ever Map Guess correct, I was the first person to ever do so! Everyone else may as well go home as I am clearly superior.

I’m obliged to brag about the fact that I scored, by correctly guessing a Map.

It wasn’t really an impressive feat, though. I mean, that Rule did come from one of Bucky’s Dynasties- The one I first joined the game during, in fact. Right at the tail end.

I’ve come a long way, since then.

(Edited: never mind.)

I think Clucky mapped to bathing.

Clucky
HHGTTG [?]

In the rule “[MAP] Map Guess”, change the text

As a weekly action, a Scribe can make a Story Post to make a Map Guess.

to

As a weekly action, a Scribe who hasn’t yet Scored with this rule can make a Story Post to make a Map Guess.

Bucky, Grading

Append the following to the rule [MAP] Map Guess:

This method of scoring is legal and valid regardless of any Rule that states otherwise. Addidionally, this rule takes precedence over the rule Grading.

Larrytheturtle, I accuse you of mapping to the rule Grading

I believe that RaichuKFM, aka Kyle “Deliberations should be in the Core Rules” @#$%^&!, made the Map to Deliberations [?].

Reword the rule “Locations” to the following:

Each Scribe has a Location, tracked in the GNDT, which by default is “Scriptorum” and can be any single English word. A Scribe whose location is XXX is considered to be “in the XXX”, as well as “at the XXX”.

As a daily action, a Scribe may spend 15 Energy to change their location. Upon doing so, the Stress of every Scribe with the same location that the Scribe is changing their location to is increased by one (including the stress of the Scribe performing the action), unless that location is the Scriptorum, in which case no Stress values are changed.

Create a new rule named “[MAP] Map Guess” with the following text:

As a weekly action, a Scribe can make a Story Post to make a Map Guess. The title of the Story Post must start “[Map Guess]”. The text of that story post must contain the name of a single rule in the Current Ruleset and the name of a single Scribe. The rule named must be below the rule named “Apocryphal Rules Go Below This Point”; the Scribe named must not be the Scribe making the Story Post.

The Editor must comment on the Story Post indicating if the Map Guess is Correct. If the Scribe named Drew a Map that resulted the named rule being added to the ruleset, the Map Guess is Correct.

If a Scribe makes a Map Guess that is Correct and no Correct Map Guess had been made naming the same Rule previously, that Scribe Scores.

Create a new rule named “[MAP] Map Guess” with the following text:

As a weekly action, a Scribe can make a Story Post to make a Map Guess. The title of the Story Post must start “[Map Guess]”. The text of that story post must contain the name of a single rule in the Current Ruleset and the name of a single Scribe. The rule named must be below the rule named “Apocryphal Rules Go Below This Point”; the Scribe named must not be the Scribe making the Story Post.

The Editor must comment on the Story Post indicating if the Map Guess is Correct. If the Scribe named Drew a Map that resulted the named rule being added to the ruleset, the Map Guess is Correct.

If a Scribe makes a Map Guess that is Correct, that Scribe Scores.

Aft3rwards idles out after 11 days of inactivity. Quorum remains six.

Append the following to Official Positions

An Official Position shall never have more than one Scribe occupying the same position.

Add the Official Position “Citizen of the Year” to the bulleted list in “Official Positions” with the following Powers

The Citizen of the Year may, as a weekly action, preform any action they have done before, other than Scoring.

Add the following text to “Official Positions” after the bulleted list:

Any Scribe who is not holding an Official Position may grant themselves the Official Position of The Citizen of the Year. If The Citizen of the Year is granted any other Official Positions then they cease to be The Citizen of the Year.

Create a new rule “Finish Line” with the following text:

If a Scribe has Scored 4 separate times this dynasty, they may achieve victory.

Create a new rule “Finish Line” with the following text:

If a Scribe has Scored 4 separate times then they may achieve victory.

After looking at multiple web sites and phones, I am fairly certain the game’s clock is is off. It should be 10:12 right now, instead it is 22:12

I think the comment section here should be a brainstorm/debate about a victory condition. Anyone have ideas? Should one exist at all?

Add this Offical Position, the historian, with the following powers, to the bulleted list in Offical Positions.

Historian - The historian may have two countable votes on any votable matter that alters or repeals a rule over one week old (excluding Core rules) ( the age of the rule is the days that have passed since the addition of a rule, or the last edit of the rule, whichever is smallest), alters or repeals an Apocryphal rule, or an Objection. They may additionally create an extra map per week, adding up to a total of two maps per week. The historian is decided (by the editor) on a weekly basis by the greatest number of new Apocryphal rules that they have mapped without objection. Ties are broken randomly by roll of DICE. The Scribe that has the greatest amount of these is the new Historian. The Historian shall not remain the Historian for more than one week.

This preposal also undoes the effects of ” Respect for History” and “Historian” should they be enacted. The number of Apocryphal Rules is counted from the day of the enactment of this preposal.

If the preposal “Respect for History” fails, this does nothing. Add this to the bullet list in Official Positions.

Historian - The Historian may cast two votes on any preposal that changes or removes a Historical Rule. The Historian is the Scribe that currently has the most Historical rules that originally resulted from their proposals. Changing a rule by preposal does not change who it belongs to, unless specifically stated in said preposal. Anytime a Scribe has more Historical rules, the previous Historian is deposed and the new one installed as soon as possible.

I Prepose a new rule, called Historical Rules.

If a rule is older than eleven days, the rule is Historical. A rule that is Historical must pass two proposals to be changed. The second proposal must be title must be “XXX 2”, where XXX is the title of the original preposal. If it fails either time, it is not enacted. If it passes both, it is enacted as normal, and the rule that was changed is no longer Historical, and it becomes historical again after two weeks. For the purpose of the enactment of the first proposal, the first preposal supersedes the text “
If the admin enacting a proposal reaches a step which cannot be applied immediately (eg. “two days after this proposal enacts, Scribe A gains 1 point”), that step is ignored for the purposes of enactment. Once a proposal has been enacted, it can have no further direct effect on the gamestate.”
The proposals must not be pending at the same time, and may not be enacted on the same day.

Add a new Official Position, “Cellarmaster”, to the list in the rule “Official Positions”, with the following power:

The Cellarmaster, as a daily action, may Toast with another Scribe with the same location; they reduce their own Stress by 2 and the other Scribe’s Stress by 3.  The Cellarmaster may only Toast with each other Scribe once per Weekly Report.

In the rule “Raffle”, change the phrase “Lottery Room” to “Cellar”.

In the rule “Raffle”, change the text

The chosen Scribe gains an amount of paper equal to the number of names in this rule’s Entry List plus one

to

The chosen Scribe gains an amount of paper equal to the number of names in this rule’s Entry List, and becomes the Cellarmaster (deposing any previous Cellarmasters).

Through the careful attentions of my loyal Scribes, it has become clear that the current reflection of the True Ruleset is insufficiently horrifying. Fortunately, we have uncovered Rule 2.11 from the 108th archived Ruleset, “Deliberations.” Good luck!

Add to “Ruleset and Gamestate” the phrase:

If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any Scribe may update it to do so.

From “Official Positions” remove

The President of the Galaxy - The President of the Galaxy may, as a weekly action, select an pending proposal and endorse it by leaving a comment that says “I’m the President of the Galaxy, and I approve this message.” This increases the looks of the Scribe that made that proposal by 3, but also increases that Scribe’s stress by 1. The President of the Galaxy may not endorse their own proposals.

Add the Office Position “The President of the Galaxy” to the bulleted list in “Official Positions” with the following Powers

The President of the Galaxy may, as a weekly action, select an pending proposal and endorse it by leaving a comment that says “I’m the President of the Galaxy, and I approve this message.” This increases the looks of the Scribe that made that proposal by 3, but also increases that Scribe’s stress by 1. The President of the Galaxy may not endorse their own proposals.

WHEREAS my enactment of “Scoring is like Winning” consisted of two edits the second of which didn’t go through for some reason,
Unmark the rule “Grading”

Add a new subrule to “Official Positions”.  Call it “[MSA] Multiple Service Award” and give it the following text:

If a Scribe has held two or more different Official Positions this dynasty, that Scribe may spend 10 Energy to Score.

Unmark the rule ‘Grading’ if it isn’t unmarked already.

It has been pointed out to your Editor that the previous addition to the True Ruleset was in fact not an addition to the True Ruleset, due to the True Ruleset. King Anthony’s Crown has been removed.

At last, the One True Ruleset finds a key piece in rule 2.11 (“King Anthony’s Crown”) from Ruleset 69.

Bucky, GenericPerson, Sci_Guy12, Izzoboetam, and Clucky submitted proposals last week, and have each been awarded 1 Paper.

In addition, for authoring a dynastic proposal of high quality enacted in the previous week, Izzoboetam is hereby named Scribe of the Week.

Add “Looks” to the list of Valuable resources in the rule “Exchange”.

Revert any Looks purchases made while this proposal was pending.

WHEREAS, during the enactment of the proposal “Energy to Burn”, this phrase was overlooked:

Unless a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the phrase “Free Movement”, change “35 Energy” to “20 Energy” in the rule “Derelicts”

Change “35 Energy” to “20 Energy” in the rule “Derelicts”.

In the rule “Apocrypha”, change the text

If adding such a rule would create a new victory condition, the Editor is not permitted to add it, but may instead Visit the Archives again without this counting towards the weekly or action limit.

to

If adding such a rule would create a new victory condition, the Editor shall replace all mentions of achieving victory in the rule with Scoring, and assign the rule an unused three-letter code in accordance with the rule “Grading”.

Unmark the rule “Grading”.

In the Bathing Effects Table, the following is written:

1 The Scribe, after bathing, is in a good mood and decides to clean the Bathroom. The Scribe may decrease their own Stress by up to 6, but must reduce their Looks by 1.

The second sentence is somewhat ambiguous - does the reduction take place regardless of whether the Scribe has or has not decreased their Stress or does it happen only if they do reduce their Stress? Either way, the sentence can be reworded so that it unambiguously indicates one or the other.

I propose a new rule, called “Cats”

At any time a Scribe may spend six Paper to purchase a Cat. A Scribe may only ever own one cat at a time. With one cat, a Scribe must pay one paper every other day for the care of the cat. If a Scribe fails to pay for the Cat, it Dies, and this Scribe may not purchase a Cat again. A variable that is called “Cat” tracked in the GNDT is set to one. If a Scribe has won a Raffle in the last two days, the purchase of a Cat is not allowed. Every time someone who owns a cat is to increase the “Looks” score, he/she can roll a DICE10. If the number is 3, that person can add 1 to the incoming Looks score. If the number is not three, that Scribe must keep the original values of incoming Looks. Every time a Scribe who owns a Cat is to increase the Stress score, a Scribe can roll a DICE12. If the number is 7, they may decrease the incoming stress by 2, ending at zero.If the number is 12, 6, or 4, they must add 1 to the incoming stress. If the number is not 12, 6, 4, or 7, the Scribe keeps the original values of incoming Stress. A cat is never eligible for requisition. The Cat stat can only ever be either 1 or 0.

Selling

If a Scribe no longer can or does not want to take care or the Cat, they may Sell it. Once a cat is Sold, the Scribe must reset the value of Cat to 0, and they are no longer eligible to roll for the above bonuses. They gain 3 paper for Selling the Cat. They may not purchase another cat for up to one week.

Also, append this to the appendix, under the title Incoming.

An Incoming stat is defined to be any time a Scribe is to increase the numeric value of one of their own stats.

I propose a new rule, called “Cats”

At any time a Scribe may spend six Paper to purchase a Cat. Purchase is limited to one cat. With one cat, a Scribe must pay one paper every other day for the care of the cat. A variable that is called “Cat” tracked in the GNDT is set to one. If a Scribe has won a Raffle in the last two days, the purchase of a Cat is not allowed. Every time someone who owns a cat is to increase the “Looks” score, he/she can roll a DICE10. If the number is 3, that person can add 1 to the incoming Looks score. If the number is not three, that Scribe must keep the original values of incoming Looks. Every time a person is to increase the Stress score, a Scribe can roll a DICE12. If the number is 7, they may decrease the incoming stress by 2, ending at zero.If the number is 12, 6, or 4, they must add 1 to the incoming stress. If the number is not 12, 6, 4, or 7, the Scribe keeps the original values of incoming Stress.

Found you guys yesterday and decided to finally try a Nomic for the first time! I want to become a Scribe, if you’ll let me.

In the rule “Gamestate Tracking”

replace

If a Scribe feels that the GNDT was altered such that it no longer matches the gamestate (such as by performing an action which was against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), or by any other means), they may simply undo the effects of that alteration. Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed GNDT update, Scribes are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgement instead.

with

If a Scribe feels that gamestate was improperly altered (such as by performing an action which was against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), or by any other means), they may simply undo the effects of that alteration. Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed alteration, Scribes are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgement instead.

I prepose to append the following section to the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate”

If a Call for Judgement is passed (having do do with the subject of this section),a Scribe that is an Admin is allowed to reverse illegal edits, and return the Ruleset and Gamestate to their previous state. Scribes(including admins and the Editor) are NEVER allowed to make other edits without a proposal being passed.

Unless a majority of the CoVs on this proposal contain “non platonic”, I also propose that this should be added to the same rule.

The current Editor should keep a platonic, written or digitally recorded Ruleset. This will serve as an “Ultimate Copy” of the Ruleset that outrules all the others, and can resolve disputes about the content of the Ruleset.

If the proposal http://blognomic.com/archive/re_offended_by_your_actions fails to pass, then this proposal does nothing

In the rule “Offenses” replace “statistics of another Scribe, the latter can declare” with “statistics of another Scribe other than their Offenses and was not the direct result resolving a votable matter, the latter can once declare”

WHEREAS the rule Raffle says “Whenever a Scribe is in the Lottery Room, as a weekly action that Scribe may “Write their name on a ticket””
and WHEREAS GenericPerson did attempt to Enter Raffle,
and WHEREAS GenericPerson was in the Scriptorium at the time,
Remove GenericPerson from the Raffle’s Entry List.  If they won the Raffle before this CfJ was enacted, confiscate the Paper they won.

There is still the question of how the “President of the Galaxy ” is “Elected “. If it were a proposition, would it be single elimination, where eligible candidates face off in multiple propositions? That would be rather clunky, but unless someone else has a better idea…?

I have received a map to ruleset 55, rule 2.3 (including all subrules), “Military.” Your humble Editor objects on the grounds that it is not of the True Ruleset nature, but in addition to that, it would add a great deal of complexity (not to mention GNDT column width) to a ballooning gamestate. Let us find small, elegant rules that may be stitched into our collective fabric instead.

I propose a new rule, called “Cats”

At any time a Scribe may spend six Paper to purchase a Cat. Purchase is limited to one cat. With one cat, a Scribe must pay one paper every other day for the care of the cat. A variable that is called “Cat” tracked in the GNDT is set to one. Cats decrease all incoming stress by one, ending at zero. Every time someone who owns a cat is to increase the “Looks” score, he/she can roll a DICE10. If the number is 3, that person can add 1 to the incoming Looks score. If the number is not three, that person does nothing.

Create a new rule called “Offenses” stating that:

Offenses is a value tracked in the GNDT. Scribes start the game with 0 Offenses. Whenever a Scribe performs an action that affects GNDT statistics of another Scribe, the latter can declare he is Offended by his actions up to one day after such actions took place, and subsequently increase the former’s Offenses by 1. A Scribe with 3 or more Offenses is considered Harmful. A Scribe who is not Harmful is then considered Harmless.

In the rule HHGTTG change:

If a Scribe is Mostly Harmless then they may subsequently be elected as {The President of the Galaxy}

to

If a Scribe is Harmless then they may subsequently be elected as {The President of the Galaxy}

Scribes start the game with 0 Offenses. Whenever a Scribe performs an action that affects GNDT statistics of another Scribe, the latter can declare he is Offended by his actions, and subsequently adding 1 to the Offenses of the former. A Scribe with 3 or more Offenses is considered Harmful. A Scribe who is not Harmful is then Harmless.

I prepose that ” Mostly Harmless” means that

  A scribe that has less than two projects, a “Stress” level under five, and a “Looks” level of over four shall be considered to be Mostly Harmless.

Define mostly harmless in rule HHGTTG. Is not clear.

In the rule “Grading”, change

tracked in the GNDT as three-letter codes tracked in the GNDT

to

tracked as three-letter codes tracked in the GNDT column “Projects”

and remove the text

Rules that caused a Scribe to Score are tracked in the GNDT column named “Scored”.

Unless a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the phrase “Free Delivery”, in the rule “Paper Money”, change the text

A Scribe may, at any time, transfer a positive amount of their Paper to any one other Scribe or Proxy.

to

A Scribe may, at any time, transfer a positive amount of their Paper to any one other Scribe who shares their Location.  A Scribe may spend a positive amount of energy to transfer an equal or smaller amount of their Paper to any one other Scribe who does not share their location.

In the rule “Derelicts”, change the text

they may cause one of those Derelicts

to

they may spend 35 Energy to cause one of those Derelicts

Unless a majority of EVCs on this proposal contain the phrase “Free Movement”, change “35 Energy” to “20 Energy” in the rule “Derelicts”, and in the rule “Locations” change the text

As a daily action, a Scribe may change their location.

to

As a daily action, a Scribe may spend 15 Energy to change their location.

There’s still some undefined stuff in the Teaming Up rule I’d like to resolve. Two main issues:

1: How two players can watch each other isn’t present.
2: Scribes don’t seem to be able to have a status, let alone have identical statuses.

In other words, neither criteria is possible to meet. So, should status have a GNDT section to resolve the second problsm? Are we better off using a Map to try and fix this? Those are basically my questions before I start proposing things to fix what is likely a rather complicated rule.

In the rule “Keywords ” Amend entry “Day” text

It can never be 2 different days at the same instant.

to

It can never be more or less than one day at any instant.

Hello! I am Sci_Guy12. I found the game through a wiki walk, and decided that I had to play it. Rather odd that two people came to the game at the same time, no? I also wish to become a scribe.

Hello! I’m Izzoboetam. I just found out about this website, and I was wondering if I could join the game. When does the next dinasty start?

Hello! I’m Izzoboetam. I just found out about this website, and I was wondering if I could join the game. When does the next dinasty start?

“Teaming Up [?]” was overdue for unmarking, so I unmarked it.

Append the following quote to the rule HHGTTG:

The President of the Galaxy is an Official Position. If the President of the Galaxy isn’t mostly harmless, remove their Official Position as President of the Galaxy.

Append the following quote to the rule Official Positions:

The President of the Galaxy - The President of the Galaxy may, as a weekly action, select an pending proposal and endorse it by leaving a comment that says “I’m the President of the Galaxy, and I approve this message.” This increases the looks of the Scribe that made that proposal by 3, but also increases that Scribe’s stress by 1. The President of the Galaxy may not endorse their own proposals.

Append the following quote to the rule HHGTTG:

The President of the Galaxy is official position.

Append the following quote to the rule Official Positions:

The President of the Galaxy - If The President of the Galaxy stops being mostly harmless, they stop being The President of the Galaxy.

In the rule “Grading”, change the text

Each Scribe has a non-negative integer number of Projects,

to

Each Scribe has a list of Projects, tracked in the GNDT as three-letter codes

and the text

they gain a Project, and should brag about it in a blog post; and the code of the Rule that caused them to Score shall be added to the list in the “Scored” column.

to

they gain a Project with the three-letter code of the Rule that caused them to Score, and should brag about it in a blog post.

Remove all Projects from all Scribes.

Through mysterious means, Rule 2.2 of Dynasty 104 (“Grading”) has emerged as a shard of True Ruleset.

The following Scribes submitted Proposals last week: Bucky, GenericPerson, RaichuKFM, Clucky, Larrytheturtle, and Qwertyu63. Each of them has been awarded a grand total of 1 Paper.

For high quality of submitted proposals, GenericPerson is named the Scribe of the Week.

Set each Scribe’s Looks to their Looks plus their Fame minus 3.

Remove the word “Fame” from the rule “Exchange”

Rewrite the rule Vanity to

Each Scribe has an amount of Looks, which is tracked as numeric variables in the GNDT. New Scribes start with the same amount of Looks as the Editor.

In the rule “Bathing”, change the text

  *1 The Scribe, after bathing, is in a good mood and decides to clean the Bathroom. The Scribe may increase their own Fame by 2, but must reduce their Looks by 1.
  *2-5 The Scribe is cleaner. They may increase their own Looks by 1.
  *6-7 Bathing does wonders for the Scribe’s image; they may increase their own Looks by 3.
  *8-9 Out of soap. Nothing happens.
  *10 The Scribe’s singing annoys the other Scribes. The Bathing Scribe must reduce their own Fame by 1.

to

  *1 The Scribe, after bathing, is in a good mood and decides to clean the Bathroom. The Scribe may decrease their own Stress by up to 6, but must reduce their Looks by 1.
  *2-5 The Scribe is cleaner. They may increase their own Looks by 1.
  *6-7 Bathing does wonders for the Scribe’s image; they may increase their own Looks by 3.
  *8-9 Out of soap, but relaxing nonetheless.  The Scribe loses 2 Stress to a minimum of 0.
  *10 The Scribe’s singing annoys the other Scribes. The Bathing Scribe must increase the Stress of the other Scribes in the Bathroom by 1 and their own Stress by 2.

In the rule Apocrypha, change the text

(The Editor may use a randomization method of their own choice for this action.)

to

(The Editor may use a randomization method of their own choice for this action.) The Editor may Visit the Archives this way up to twice per week.

After the bulleted list in the Rule “Apocrypha”, add the following (unbulleted) paragraph:

The Editor shall only use the first method if all Maps whose date have arrived or passed have been used. If a Map specifies a Rule that would not be possible or permitted for the Editor to add, it is considered used.

Add a new rule “Objection!” as a subrule of “Apocrypha” with the following text:

The Editor may Object to a map that they find unacceptable for any reason. When they do so, they must post a story post and its title should begin with “Objection: X” where X is the name of the rule being Mapped to, this is the Objection. The Editor should not mention the Author of a Map in an Objection. A Map is considered used if it specifies a rule that is the subject of an Objection that is neither Upheld nor Overturned. Scribes may post FOR and AGAINST votes on any Objection, with the appropriate voting icons, within 24 hours of it being posted; the Editor is considered to have voted For if they have not yet posted a valid voting icon. Only a Scribe’s most recent valid vote is considered to be their vote. Any votes posted after 24 hours are considered invalid. After 24 hours the Objection becomes Closed. If the For votes on a Closed Objection are greater than or equal to the number of Against votes on it then it is considered Upheld, otherwise it is considered Overturned. If an Objection is Upheld then any Map specifies the rule X is considered Used. If an Objection is Overturned then it returns to being unused and can not be Objected to again.

In the rule “Apocrypha” change the text “Paper to draw a Map” to “Paper to draw a Map as a weekly action.”

Add the following to the end of the “Spelling” section of the Appendix

Unless otherwise specified, the capitalization of letters or lack thereof shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.

In the rule “Random Generators” section of the Appendix after “The GNDT can be used to generate random results. ” add

These commands are case sensitive.

Reword the rule “Teaming Up” to the following:

If there are exactly two Cooperative Scribes are in a Location, they are a Team.

For the purposes of all Dynastic Rules but this one that care about the Stress or Energy of a Scribe in a Team (a “Team Member”), the Energy of each Team Member in a Team is equal to the higher Energy in the team plus 15, and the Stress of each Team Member is equal to the higher Stress in the Team plus 3. However, if either member of a Team gains or loses Paper (due to a rule other than this one, except the rule “Paper”), so does the other; and if either Member of a team loses Energy or gains Stress (due to a rule other than this one), so does the other.

Scribes may be Cooperative or Uncooperative, defaulting to Uncooperative. If a Scribe is Cooperative, this is represented by an asterisk after the English word in the GNDT field “Location”.

Reword the rule “Locations” to the following:

Each Scribe has a Location, tracked in the GNDT, which by default is “Scriptorum” and can be any single English word. A Scribe whose location is XXX is considered to be “in the XXX”.

As a daily action, a Scribe may change their location. Upon doing so, the Stress of every Scribe with the same location that the Scribe is changing their location to is increased by one (including the stress of the Scribe performing the action), unless that location is the Scriptorum, in which case no Stress values are changed. A Scribe may additionally become Cooperative or Uncooperative, as part of this action.

Add a new Rule, “Clubhouses”, with the following text:

If a Location’s name contains the string “Club”, and two or more Scribes are in that Location, other Scribes cannot change their Location to that Location.