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Proposal: Secret Offshore Bank Accounts If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it. In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, then”. In the same rule, just before the text “When a Wordsmith posts a Backronym” insert the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,… JonathanDark 07/05/25 5 07/06/25
Proposal: Secret Bank Accounts If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it. In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,” JonathanDark 07/05/25 2 07/05/25
Story Post: Story Post -- Votable Matter: Kremlin: Eternally Vying for the Adoration of the Nation In Russian politics, to be loved is to be feared, and to win the national heart of the people is to rule with strength and indomitable will. Can you balance the ruthlessness of purging your political rivals with successfully managing one of the largest countries on earth to be the… JonathanDark 07/05/25 7 07/06/25
Story Post: Story Post -- Votable Matter: Killer Expansion: Vampires Aliens Nuns In the newest expansion to the hit board game, Global Takeover, three new factions emerge, ready to claim the world for their own. Drain your opponent’s will as hungry vampires, abduct and probe you’re way to victory as invading aliens or spread godly fear as ruler wielding nuns. JonathanDark 07/04/25 8 07/05/25
Story Post: Story Post -- Votable Matter: Knights of England: Vassals And Nobles Another exciting expansion in the classic tile laying game series. JonathanDark 07/04/25 9 07/05/25
Story Post: New Acronym: K_E_V_A_N Prompt: Board Game Reminder that this is a Secret Acrotype, so send your Backronyms directly to me for posting. JonathanDark 07/03/25 1 07/03/25
Story Post: New Acronym: R_U_S_T Prompt: Job Title JonathanDark 07/01/25 0
Story Post: New Acronym: R_A_V_E_N Prompt: Fictional or Non-fictional Book or Movie JonathanDark 06/28/25 1 06/28/25
Puzzler Delays Scoring I’m holding off on Scoring any Backronyms because some would then need to be resolved due to having Scorings from everyone, and others would not. If “What’s that Buzzing Sound?” passes in the meantime, then only some Backronyms will get the benefit of Buzzword clues. If the remaining Backronyms get… JonathanDark 06/27/25 1 06/27/25
Story Post: New Acronym: M_E_S_A_G Prompt: Vacation/Holiday location or activity JonathanDark 06/26/25 0
Story Post: New Acronym: H S P S C Don’t forget to make your Backronym a Story Post - Votable Matter to make it compatible with pending Proposals. Note that currently there is no mechanism to clear the Word Bank, so the previous entries still apply. JonathanDark 06/24/25 0
Your first Acronym is BBA I’ve performed the first Acrogenerate. Good luck! JonathanDark 06/21/25 0
First Acrogenerate on Saturday I’d like to let the first swath of Proposals get enacted and then I’ll do the first Acrogenerate. The rules for Scoring and generating will undoubtedly change, but a round of play will let us figure out what needs changing and will help spark new ideas as well. JonathanDark 06/20/25 0
Please vote for Tedious exactitude We need Josh’s CfJ to pass in order for the pending Proposals to be enacted. Otherwise, we’ll remain in an illegal state. JonathanDark 06/20/25 0
Ascension Address: Cool Acronym Bro Edgar looked at the memo that was put on his desk. “The D.R.A.G.O.N. team has requested that you submit your TPS reports…” DRAGON? Everyone in the business was so fascinated with acronyms that he suspected that they created a cool-sounding acronym first and then tried to justify it later by… JonathanDark 06/19/25 1 06/19/25
Captain’s Log Discussion of the Containers dynasty here JonathanDark 06/19/25 4 06/20/25
Destination Unknown Phosphatidylinositol has been idled due to not posting a comment or post in the past 168 hours. Quorum remains unchanged at 4. JonathanDark 06/18/25 0
Telegram Office: 17 June 3225 A mist rolls over the sea as the radio operators watch the instruments at their posts, waiting for important messages to relay. JonathanDark 06/17/25 7 06/19/25
Looking for Phosphatidylinositol Phosphatidylinositol, are you still around and intending to participate? JonathanDark 06/16/25 0
Josh: I’m volunteering to be a Mentor to Phosphatidylinositol I’d like to volunteer to mentor Phosphatidylinositol, whenever you have the time to officially assign the Mentorship JonathanDark 06/10/25 0
Heads up to Clucky, Darknight, and lendunistus We have a quorum of Ballots filled out at this point. While people are still making some changes and the 48-hour timer gets reset every time that happens, I expect it will settle down soon. What this means for the named players in the title of this post is that… JonathanDark 05/25/25 0
Story Post: Request I’ve updated my draft to add Imperial Styles, Design Space, and address the concerns around a lucky player getting a guess too quickly. JonathanDark 05/24/25 0
Reformatting of Reviews I was inspired by Trapdoorspyder mentioning a re-ordering of the Reviews in order by the Drafter each Review was meant for, so I’ve done that to the gamestate page. It makes it a lot easier to find Reviews for that Drafter and see at a glance who still needs Reviews.… JonathanDark 05/23/25 5 05/23/25
Story Post: Request: Please re-review JonathanDark’s Draft I made several major changes to my Investigations Draft:  I added a 4th Clue Type I changed Guesses to be Virtual Actions to remove timing advantages I made a new interactive Investigation post type which allows for multiplayer action, to address the concerns brought up by Kevan and Josh. The… JonathanDark 05/22/25 0
A Note to TDS on Loot Grabbin @TDS: I enacted “Loot Grabbin’” but I think there are two issues with it: “Select that many Spots and add them to the list of rooms which contain artifacts” and “remove that Spot from the list of rooms which contains an Artifact” may not make sense since “rooms” isn’t well-defined… JonathanDark 04/09/25 4 04/09/25
Reminder about Revisions Just as a reminder to folks who weren’t around in the last dynasty, we have a new Building Block called Revisions Allowed which makes use of the voting icon to indicate that you like a Proposal but it has some things that need tweaking, as opposed to completely disliking anything… JonathanDark 04/08/25 0
Reminder: Popular Proposals can’t be Enacted until after 24 hours Just a quick reminder that the rules around enacting Popular proposals changed recently from a 12-hour minimum to 24 hours, to those admins who might be up late Saturday night. JonathanDark 04/05/25 0
Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War I made the post as required by enacting Lacunexit, using the Equity at the time of enactment and of the post (regardless of ais’ further activities). ais won the dice roll when I performed the steps of the enactment. If ais wishes to contest it due to his performing Reinitialisation… JonathanDark 04/05/25 1 04/05/25
Lacunexit Enactment Post At the time of this post, the Equity of each Nomicer was:  ais523: 33 Clucky: 21 Darknight: 20 DoomedIdeas: 22 JonathanDark: 32 Kevan: 23 Lulu: 22 Raven1207: 17 SingularByte: 25 Zack: 22 Sum of all Equities for dice roll: 237 Creating a range of dice roll results within DICE237 for… JonathanDark 04/05/25 2 04/05/25
Raven1207, You Need to Mill Correctly To Mill correctly, you need to put the actual Sin word itself in the edit comment when you Mill. JonathanDark 03/31/25 0
Does 24 hours cross between weeks? I know that a Week ends on a Sunday, but doesn’t Weekly’s prohibition on “not more than once every twenty-four hours” still count if the first instance was near the end of Sunday night and the next instance is less than 24 hours later Monday morning? ais did the Weekly… JonathanDark 03/31/25 4 03/31/25
What Is Victory, Really? In Josh’s DoV, ais suggested that achieving victory is not gamestate and thus not actionable via a Proposal enactment. If that were true, how could any dynastic rule specify a way for a player to achieve victory that would be regulated by the ruleset? Is the achievement of victory a… JonathanDark 03/27/25 7 03/27/25
Reflecting on Life Comments on the dynasty here JonathanDark 03/27/25 4 03/27/25
Bunana Takes the Early Retirement Package Bunana has been idled due to lack of blog activity for the past 7 days. Quorum is unchanged. This dynasty is now on Hiatus due to the Dormancy rule. JonathanDark 03/26/25 2 03/26/25
Story Post: [Deal] Raven1207 It’s Your Lucky Day Again Hey Raven1207, I’ve got these handy little booklets that explain how to tap into your inner energies and unleash your real potential. Costs you nothing to check it out. In fact, there’s 200 Influence on the table, and I’ll split it with you, 125 to me and 75 to you,… JonathanDark 03/25/25 2 03/26/25
Story Post: [Deal] Hey Raven1207, Let’s Dig Up Some Dirt This Deal is for Raven1207 to Dig Up Dirty Secrets. I’m offering a split of 60 Influence to me and 40 Influence to you, because I had to pay some Resources for this Deal. For you, it’s free Influence. All you have to do is agree to it with a… JonathanDark 03/22/25 2 03/23/25
Story Post: [Opportunity] Quiz Me A quiz show is coming to your town and they need contestants who can show off their smarts as well as entertain a live audience. Unfortunately, the lines to apply are really long, and it looks like not everyone is going to get a chance to audition before they close… JonathanDark 03/18/25 17 03/22/25
[Opportunity] Viral Video You’ve heard about viral videos and people becoming influencers, but you never imagined yourself being one of those people, until today. An Opportunity has presented itself to you to pay some highly talented internet video producers to make the next viral video, starring you. Do you take them up on… JonathanDark 03/14/25 8 03/16/25
Help With a Betting Mechanism So, I’ve been struggling with how to make closed-fist betting easier, or at least less wordy, without having the Custodian have to handle private communications for actions or resolution of those actions. My initial idea was: * Set the amount you want to bet. * Hash your bet, but first… JonathanDark 03/12/25 7 03/14/25
Bigger, Better, Faster, More! Josh brought up a good point that this dynasty is a bit slow and dull. I’ve been already thinking about ideas to make it more interesting and kick up the pace. One thought is around free form turns. The problem is that we have first mover advantages with several of… JonathanDark 03/01/25 10 03/02/25
Darknight Falls Off the Board Darknight has been idled due to lack of activity for the past 7 days. Quorum remains unchanged at 5. JonathanDark 03/01/25 4 03/01/25
Straw Poll - Represent Tokens in the Squares Directly? Kevan has worked on an alternate way to display the island grid squares to show the tokens of each Meeple directly in the grid, so that it’s easier to visualize where everyone’s tokens are. The upside is that you don’t have to do a constant lookup between the Position variable… JonathanDark 02/21/25 8 02/22/25
Note to Josh Josh, I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how “Vote, Meeples!” is going to work. You only lose 1 Sprint if ALL of the following are true: * The Proposal has been open for at least 48 hours (if it becomes Popular or Unpopular or is Vetoed or is Withdrawn… JonathanDark 02/18/25 7 02/19/25
Bera Rolls Snake Eyes Bera has been idled due to lack of blog activity for the past 7 days. Quorum drops to 5. JonathanDark 02/13/25 5 02/14/25
Illegal Gambling Now that “Horse of a Different Color” has been enacted, the valid Types of Sicherman Dice have changed, and everyone’s Types are currently illegal. It’s not clear to me that we can simply set everyone’s Types to the default value (I don’t see such a rule), but the new enactment… JonathanDark 02/11/25 5 02/12/25
Local Rules Might Be Broken I think the way that the rule text in “Isles of BoardGamia” might be broken with regard to Tokens. With the recent change from a Meeple’s Position to Token’s Position, the rule text suggests that the Local Rule text applies to the Token rather than the Meeple owning that Token.… JonathanDark 02/10/25 7 02/10/25
Team Untracked has scored Triumphs Team Untracked scored a Triumph on “untracked” with the following actions: * Remove the $$ from The Bank (2 Tools of the Trade) * Turn “flavour” into “favour” in The Bank (Tools of the Trade) * Copy “orphan” into The Bank (JD does a Treasurer action) * Turn “orphan” into… JonathanDark 02/03/25 13 02/03/25
Wait for it If we don’t want to chance a repeat of an instant win, help me get “It Can’t Be That Easy” passed, and don’t set any Targets until that Proposal has been enacted. JonathanDark 01/27/25 3 01/28/25
Should Habanero’s Focus be Automatically Changed? Habanero set Focus to 1 per the previous rules for setting Focus when on the non-quorum team. The rules have just changed such that setting Focus in this way now sets Focus to * instead. Habanero’s Focus value is still a currently valid value at 1, but should it be… JonathanDark 01/25/25 5 01/26/25
ais’ Team Gets a Second Win ais’ team started with the second instance of “votable” in the rule “Bounties (Heists) {M}” and performed 4 Tools of the Trade {M} Heist Actions: * votable -> cotable * cotable -> coatable * coatable -> croatable * croatable -> creatable These 4 changes allowed the Targets for ais and… JonathanDark 01/22/25 2 01/22/25
CyberStella Detained For Questioning CyberStella has been idled due to lack of blog activity for 7 days. Quorum remains unchanged at 5. JonathanDark 01/21/25 0
ais523 and Josh are in a Coregency I think since ais523 posted the DoV, it is up to them to post the AA: the Snail who posted the DoV becomes Jury Once the Dynastic Reset atomic action has been performed, the Coregency clause of Race 5 will become ruletext and take effect. Note to ais523: the “Victory… JonathanDark 01/14/25 7 01/15/25
Story Post: Bucket List for Race 4 CyberStella and GetPunnedOn failed to finish the Race and get put into the Bucket. JonathanDark 01/08/25 0
Award Ceremony for Race 4 Fame ais523 gains 2 Fame for finishing in the lowest number of Plays as Scrutinised. Josh gains 8 Fame for finishing in the lowest number of Plays as an Underdog. Habanero gains 3 Fame for finishing in the second lowest number of Plays as a Runner. JonathanDark gains 1 Fame… JonathanDark 01/07/25 5 01/08/25
Keeping Track of Race 4 Link to Race 4, since a Sticky Post doesn’t stay on the front page forever: Race 4 JonathanDark 01/07/25 0
Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programme Welcome back from Seasonal Downtime! I hope everyone had time to rest, because it’s time to get back to Racing! JonathanDark 12/26/24 0
New Players: Notice of Seasonal Downtime 2024 Attention CyberStella and GotPunnedOn: Per the Seasonal Downtime rule in the Keywords section of the Appendix, BlogNomic is on Hiatus on December 24, 25, and 26.  On the 24th, 25th and 26th of December, BlogNomic is on Hiatus. In addition, game actions defined by the core rules titled “Snails” and… JonathanDark 12/23/24 0
Corrected Award Ceremony for Race 3 Fame:  Identity Crisis Ian finishes in the lowest number of Plays but as a Slug cannot have Fame Habanero finishes in the second lowest number of Plays and gains 3 Fame, doubled due to being Fan Favorite, for a total gain of 6 Fame CyberStella finishes in the third lowest… JonathanDark 12/22/24 0
Story Post: Bucket List 3 The following Snails are placed in the Bucket: GetPunnedOn, JonathanDark, Josh JonathanDark 12/22/24 0
Award Ceremony for Race 3 Fame:  Habanero finishes in the lowest number of Plays and gains 4 Fame, doubled due to being Fan Favorite, for a total gain of 8 Fame CyberStella finishes in the second lowest number of Plays and gains 3 Fame, doubled due to being an Underdog, for a total gain of… JonathanDark 12/22/24 2 12/22/24
CyberStella and GetPunnedOn Can Race Since “A Boost for all Slugs” was enacted, CyberStella and GetPunnedOn can participate in the current Ongoing Race. Note that the remaining Slugs in the Bucket are also now in the current Race. JonathanDark 12/17/24 0
Kicked the Bucket lendunistus has been idled for lack of activity for over 7 days. Quorum remains at 4. JonathanDark 12/12/24 0
Discussion: How do we fix the Bucket problem? Rather than continuously cycling through variations of Proposals trying to fix the Bucket problem and failing, let’s see if we can iterate through acceptable possibilities until there’s one that’s good enough. That way, we’re not all wasting Proposal slots on ideas that fail out of the gate. The first attempt… JonathanDark 12/08/24 6 12/09/24
Is There Such A Thing As Being Too Famous? TLDR; Someone could just post a CfJ to patch the rule and be done with it, but in the meantime, Habanero could post as many more Award Ceremonies as they want, and there’s no reason they shouldn’t. This post is to talk through where to go from here before trying… JonathanDark 12/02/24 16 12/02/24
Cooperative research The “No Cooperation” Building Block is not in effect, so in the spirit of having a more interesting environment of active Codons, I’m seeking out like-minded Genetic Engineers to come to an agreement on editing the Genome. This would be just one time to see how it goes at first.… JonathanDark 10/25/24 1 10/25/24
The Cornucopia Post-dynastic discussion here JonathanDark 10/18/24 2 10/18/24
Expired Fruit Benbot has been idled due to lack of blog activity for 7 days. Quorum remains unchanged at 3. JonathanDark 10/02/24 1 10/03/24
Fish Tales Discussion of the dynasty itself here JonathanDark 09/10/24 3 09/10/24
Looking for a frog Desertfrog, you still out there? JonathanDark 09/05/24 5 09/06/24
A Quiet Place We have Low-Player Mode enabled, so the dynasty can technically go on with only 3 Fishing Contestants and the Elder Judge. However, I haven’t seen Lukas make any moves or blog posts in a few days, so I’m just wondering what we’re doing at this point. I can certainly keep… JonathanDark 08/16/24 4 08/17/24
ChaosGoblin is Shipwrecked ChaosGoblin goes idle after over 7 days of inactivity. Quorum is unchanged at 4. JonathanDark 08/04/24 0
Mentorship of Lukas by JonathanDark JonathanDark will be mentoring Lukas until the Second Dynasty of Darknight has ended and the date is past the 29th of August 2024. JonathanDark 07/29/24 0
Man Overboard djf1107 has been made idle after no blog activity for over 7 days. Quorum drops down to 4. JonathanDark 07/27/24 0
Story Post: Credits: 24 July 2024 LEGEND ChaosGoblin Clucky Darknight GloopyGhost The Story Clearly, the frying pan was the most suitable weapon of choice for this situation. With a mighty swing, June brought her pan down upon the bigger skunk fly with a wet crunch. As she shook the remains of the fly off, June watched… JonathanDark 07/24/24 2 07/24/24
Story Post: The Story is Complete Here is the final Points tally: ChaosGoblin: 142 Clucky: 148 Darknight: 168 djf1107: 136 JonathanDark 07/24/24 0
New Drawing: 22 July 2024 New drawing is ready. Will it be the last? JonathanDark 07/21/24 0
Story Post: Winning Fragment: 22 July 2024 The winning Ending Fragment for the most recent Judging is Fragment #1: As darkness continued to spread, June found herself descending into the crypts. She found herself standing inside a large chamber, surrounded by members of the village. The mayor, the blacksmith and even the director of the small playhouse.… JonathanDark 07/21/24 0
Story Post: Judging: 21 July 2024 “We need to chat.”  As darkness continued to spread, June found herself descending into the crypts. She found herself standing inside a large chamber, surrounded by members of the village. The mayor, the blacksmith and even the director of the small playhouse. “What’s.. going on?” June asked, confused. “There’s no… JonathanDark 07/21/24 2 07/21/24
GloopyGhost Ghosted Us GloopyGhost has been made Idle for not posting an entry or comment in the past 96 hours (4 days) and not sending a Creative Writing or Scoring Response in the past 96 hours (4 days). Quorum drops to 3. JonathanDark 07/20/24 3 07/21/24
Reminder: You can cancel and resend your Fragment Because the Creative Writing is a Virtual Action, per the rules for Virtual Action: Until a virtual action is resolved, it is pending. A Storyteller may cancel a pending Virtual Action by privately communicating to the Publisher their request to do so. Creative Writings don’t get resolved until the Judging… JonathanDark 07/19/24 0
Reminder: The Storytelling dynasty isn’t ending yet After the Ending Drawing, and the Judging and scoring happens, the Ending Fragment is added to “The Last Fragment” and not to The Story, so the dynasty is not ending yet. There will still be more Drawings and more Fragments between what’s currently in The Story and this Ending Fragment,… JonathanDark 07/18/24 2 07/19/24
Questions to Ask Yourself about the Ending Fragment Before you start trying to bang out the Ending Fragment in 250 words or less, simplify the process and try to answer these questions first. The answers should help you focus on what to write for the ending:  Which characters win and which ones lose? How does the environment change… JonathanDark 07/17/24 0
Story Post: New Ending Drawing 16 July 2024 Don’t forget that this is an Ending Drawing, so the last two words of your Fragment must be “The End”, and the winning Fragment will be added to The Last Fragment rather than The Story. Also, because it’s an Ending Drawing, your word limit is 250 words instead of 150… JonathanDark 07/16/24 0
Story Post: Winning Fragment: 16 July 2024 The winning Fragment for the most recent Judging is Fragment #2: Panic and fear racked the crew of the Black Hawk. No one really knew what to expect when Natasha held the Jewel of the Seas aloft, but a bottomless pit appearing before them was not anywhere on the radar.… JonathanDark 07/16/24 0
Story Post: Judging: 13 July 2024 Something unnatural.  As the storm quickly grew in intensity, a strong breeze carried a salty mist into the village. June peered out at the ship on the horizon. It was quickly approaching the sandstone cliffs. She froze. “They’re returning already!” She could only hope that there had been enough time… JonathanDark 07/13/24 2 07/16/24
Story Post: Drawing Deadline: 13 July 02:30 Last call for Creative Writings JonathanDark 07/11/24 0
Roll Call Feel free to check in here with a comment just to keep from going idle JonathanDark 07/11/24 2 07/11/24
naught = 0 naught has been idled for being inactive for 7 days. Quorum falls to 4. JonathanDark 07/09/24 0
djf1107 is back djf1107 is unidled per this CfJ. Quorum remains unchanged at 4. JonathanDark 07/07/24 1 07/10/24
Story Post: Judging: 07 July 2024 “Unless the part about there being a girl who can use the gem to destroy the master is true.”  June and her mother stumbled out of the burning building. “Is that everyone?” June asked, breathing heavily. Her mother surveyed the group of people that they had managed to evacuate. “Yes,… JonathanDark 07/07/24 3 07/09/24
Story Post: Drawing Deadline: 07 June 2024 01:20 Last call for Creative Writings JonathanDark 07/05/24 0
djf is AFK djf1107 is idled after 7 days of inactivity. Quorum remains unchanged at 4. JonathanDark 07/05/24 2 07/06/24
Story Post: Judging: 01 July 2024 She turned to investigate and momentarily forgot about her worries as she saw the pale blue glow of the jewel.  June stood before the blazing inferno that was the shop. Her home. She was fortunate, really. Had she arrived a few minutes later, likely her family wouldn’t have survived. Not… JonathanDark 07/01/24 2 07/03/24
Mentorship of djf1107 by Trapdoorspyder djf1107 to be mentored by Trapdoorspyder until the Fifth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 30th of July 2024. JonathanDark 06/30/24 0
Story Post: Drawing Deadline: 01 July 2024 01:06 Last call for Creative Writings JonathanDark 06/29/24 0
Open Call for more Mentors The list of Mentors on the Mentorships page is a bit short right now, and we may have one or two more incoming new players, so we will need another Mentor or two to step up. Would anyone be willing to be added to the list of Mentors? It requires… JonathanDark 06/28/24 0
Mentorship of ChaosGoblin by JonathanDark ChaosGoblin to be mentored by JonathanDark until the Fifth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 28th of July 2024. JonathanDark 06/28/24 0
Story Post: Judging: 27 June 2024 June watched in horror as the shop quickly went up in flames, and the yells for help grew louder.  As the thugs ran off with their loot, June leapt into action. She didn’t have long; the flames had already started creeping up the walls. Dashing inside, she saw smashed shelves… JonathanDark 06/27/24 2 06/27/24
Story Post: Drawing Deadline:28 June 2024 01:58 Last call for Creative Writings JonathanDark 06/26/24 0
Story Post: Judging: 20 June 2024 “Pirates.”  With the sickening smell of smoke on the wind, June raced as quickly as she could towards the village. Nearing the family shop, she ducked behind an over turned cart as a pair of pirates stepped out, arms loaded with stolen goods. “Hey, thanks for the supplies buddy.” one… JonathanDark 06/20/24 2 06/23/24