Call for Judgment: A Little Too Mandatory
Reached quorum, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 17 Feb 2025 17:24:34 UTC
If the following text exists in the ruleset:
The Current Meeple may not take a particular Turn Action if they have already taken a Turn Action with a higher Phase since their turn last began, or if they have not yet taken a Mandatory Turn Action with a lower Phase since their turn last began.
then replace “they have not yet taken a Mandatory Turn Action with a lower Phase since their turn last began” with “there is a Mandatory Turn Action with a lower Phase available to them” in that text.
Uphold all Turn Actions taken before the posting of this CfJ.
You can’t take Turn Actions if you haven’t yet taken Mandatory ones with a lower phase. This was meant to prevent people from skipping over Mandatory actions. While I was writing Despaghettifying, though, I realized that the current Mandatory Turn Actions in Rusting prevent any Phase 3+ Turn Actions from being performable, since in almost all cases the Rusting actions won’t have been taken since the turn last began. Unfortunately this means since Rusting was added any turns where people took Phase 3+ Turn Actions (mostly kitten-related ones) were illegal. Here’s an uphold-and-fix
Habanero:
Now that I think about it, it might be fine. The current wording is ambiguous enough that ‘a Mandatory Turn Action’ could be read as any Mandatory Turn Action, so rolling dice would allow you to take Phase 3+ actions. Still probably a good idea to vote for this regardless to fix the wording (under this interpretation, rusting a square would let you skip over rolling dice).