Note: I like Scouted Location better.  Also, I think we need a “may” in there, as in “they may add…”

note: I think they should have the ability to name the location if they scout it. And as they know what feature it has, they can do so intelligently. I don’t think “may” enters into it though: they should add the feature.

Note:  Must or should or shall, then.  But I think we need a modal.

Note: “MAY” IS POISON

P O I S O N

I like it!

seems legit

You spelled Ocellus wrong again, I just noticed, in both places, but since it’s a typo you can still correct it.

I copied it from another proposal and they probably made the mistake, I should have checked anyway.

Letting players write free text in the gamestate is always scammable. (Naming a location “a Location that also contains a Brine Pool”, “the Beak state”, “Playername’s Achieved Victory”, etc.)

[Cuddlebeam] Can you explain how ‘may’ is poison? It seemed only like it was poison because of your odd personal interpretation of the word.

grrr. no point in fighting it, I suppose.

[Kevan] Those are just the names of the locations though and currently the only effect names have are prevent movement if it’s named Foggy Location. A location named “Kevan wins” won’t make you win unless there’s some other rule that makes the name do something. If it did then each “Scouted Location” would contain two crevices and one skeleton because the name has two c’s and one skeleton.

There are sentences in the ruleset which would become comfortably ambiguous - “increase the Statolith’s Gonium by 5 if the Creature is in a Location that also contains a Brine Pool” would refer both to Locations that contain actually Brine Pools, and Locations given the name “a Location that also contains a Brine Pool”.

Sure, “Kevan wins” wouldn’t do anything by itself because gamestate phrases aren’t rules. A location named “Kevan’s Achieved Victory” could be used to argue that I “have achieved victory in the current Dynasty”, though, at a bit of a stretch - there’s a pile of victory there with my name on it, and it says it was achieved.

(I doubt that kind of DoV would actually fly. But there might be stronger loopholes in the core ruleset that I can’t see offhand - any sentence containing the word “in” is quite vulnerable, because we’re all “in” a named Location.)