Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Proposal: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 22 Aug 2024 23:33:36 UTC

If the Proposal “A slow descent into madness” was not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

In the subrule “Treasures”, add the following text:

When a Fishing Contestant who performs Diving for Treasure gets a result of Treasure, they pick one of the options below and apply that to themselves:
* Coin: Gain 2DICEX Doubloons, where X is your current Depth.
* Vigor: Gain an amount of Energy equal to your Depth.
* Sanity: Subtract an amount of Madness equal to half of your Depth, rounded down to the nearest integer, to a minimum of 0.

In the subrule “Anomalies”, add the following text:

When a Fishing Contestant who performs Diving for Treasure gets a result of Anomaly, they select the row from the table below where their current Depth is within the numerical range of the Depth Range column of that row, and then apply the Effect on that row to themselves:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Depth Range !! Effect
|-
| 1-2 || Subtract 2DICEX Doubloons, where X is your current Depth, to a minimum of 0
|-
| 3-4 || Change the Blackwater Beast's Last Known Location to the same Cell that contains your name, then perform the Moving the Beast atomic action
|-
| 5-6 || Roll {A1,A8,F1,F8} and move your name in The Sea Chart to the Cell matching the result of that roll
|-
| 7 or greater || Gain 5 Madness
|}

Floating some ideas for Treasures and Anomalies. We can always expand or change these.

Comments

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

21-08-2024 21:37:22 UTC

Vigor seems worrisomely strong. I’d rather not introduce new ways to get energy against

JonathanDark: he/him

21-08-2024 21:54:53 UTC

That’s fair. If this is the only reason this Proposal fails, I’ll re-propose without Vigor, unless you have other objections.

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

22-08-2024 06:44:09 UTC

I’m not fully sold on the mechanic as a whole. Sanity is also a bit odd cause is kinda like free energy. Coin is good, though if you just role coin when you get treasure that is a bit boring.

Anomaly I think would be more interesting if you if roll a DICEX where X is your depth, and then that goes into the chart. But also maybe let you get positive results too?

JonathanDark: he/him

22-08-2024 14:20:54 UTC

Hm, that’s an interesting take. I was viewing Anomalies as the negative contrast to the Treasure’s positive, but I can see how it might be a potluck of good and bad.

I agree that just rolling for coin for Treasure is a bit boring, which is why I had added the other stuff. Maybe it should be more like finding “artifacts”, items that are kinda like Upgrades but of specific narrow use.

JonathanDark: he/him

22-08-2024 23:32:44 UTC

Withdrawing this to try something else

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