Friday, December 09, 2022

Proposal: A Rabbit in a Hat

Times out 3-4 and fails -SingularByte

Adminned at 11 Dec 2022 18:55:37 UTC

To “Rooms”, add:-

The Names of Rooms must be taken from the following list: Foyer, Sitting Room, Tea Room, Hallway, Kitchen, Ballroom, Conservatory, Dining Room, Billiard Room, Library, Lounge, Study, Cellar, Corridor, Passageway.

If any Rooms exist whose names do not appear on the above list, rename each of them to a different, random name on the list which is not already in use.

Remove “At any time, the Narrator may add to the list of Rooms or add connections between Rooms in any way they see fit.” from the rule “Rooms”.

Possessed players who would be good at naming rooms presumably won’t want to give away their identity by doing so, and would be better off pretending to be uninterested in or even bad at it (this was a big strategy in the Art Broker dynasty). Maybe we should head that off with a fixed list of names to draw from. The list should be expanded by proposal, by whoever feels like doing so - I know Darknight said on Discord that they were interested in naming some rooms.

Also tacking on a repeal of a sentence that The House of Katastrophe meant to remove but didn’t.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

09-12-2022 17:20:30 UTC

I like the concept, but it also implies that once every Room name has been used, no more Rooms can be added until more names are added to the list via Proposal. This could stunt the growth of the Rooms.

Maybe that’s by design, but I just wanted to point out the possible issues here.

Kevan: he/him

09-12-2022 17:25:36 UTC

Sure, I just didn’t want to put too much of my stamp on what the room names should be by giving us enough to last the whole dynasty.

But it’ll likely take us weeks to use up the eleven new ones here, when we tacitly endorsed a one-room-per-turn limit with House of Katastrophe.

JonathanDark: he/him

09-12-2022 17:33:58 UTC

Good point. I was just thinking of the issues Josh and misty raised during your House of Katastrophe proposal, which was that limiting Room creation early might slow down the early game too aggressively.

I was planning on a Proposal to raise the Room creation limit until a minimum number of Rooms is reached. Maybe I’ll add a clause for “the number of valid Names of Rooms” as well just to ensure that this isn’t a problem.

Bucky:

09-12-2022 17:40:15 UTC

+Master/Guest Bedroom +Bathroom

JonathanDark: he/him

09-12-2022 17:52:53 UTC

Just FYI, the trend these days is away from the word “Master” due to its historical connotations. The replacement is usually “Main”.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

10-12-2022 01:39:17 UTC

for

Bucky:

10-12-2022 04:03:12 UTC

against

SingularByte: he/him

10-12-2022 05:42:13 UTC

This feels a tad unnecessary. Unless someone actively goes out of their way to request room names, it’s all under the control of the Narrator anyway.  against

Kevan: he/him

10-12-2022 08:34:02 UTC

Katastrophe’s options when adding a room are:

* Think up a good name for it, at the risk of that inadvertently giving away some information about their identity.
* Leave the Narrator to name it.
* Think up a name in the style of another player, to make people think that Katastrophe is that person.
* Think up a generically bad name (something that doesn’t fit the setting, or that closely repeats another room, or a typo), to suggest that Katastrophe is being controlled by someone who isn’t paying much attention.

Anyone playing Katastrophe tactically would never do the first, only do the third to mimic an unskilled player (because a skilled player wouldn’t be giving themselves away like that), and consider the second or fourth. So it generally skews away from any players giving good names to rooms.

An explicit “Narrator names all rooms” would also work, I just thought I’d try “the group names all rooms via this list” given that Darknight had expressed the intention a few days ago without acting on it, and so that other players who wanted to name stuff could join in on it.

Josh: Observer he/they

10-12-2022 12:19:48 UTC

for

quirck: he/him

10-12-2022 15:32:43 UTC

against

Habanero:

10-12-2022 15:50:11 UTC

against