Saturday, July 10, 2021

Proposal: Brendan why

Self-killed.  - Jumble

Adminned at 12 Jul 2021 02:42:14 UTC

Remove the bulletpoint starting with “Machination is a Power Action” from the ruleset.  Reword the sentence starting with “When a Vampire Lord becomes idle while having a Sepulchre” in Sepulchres to the following:

When a Vampire Lord is idle while having a Sepulchre, their Sepulchre is set to no location.

nice play but you’re not getting more than one use out of this

Comments

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 13:15:24 UTC

It’s expensive but powerful. Is it really cheesy or bad?

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 13:15:47 UTC

I mean, this is clearly a arrow so I should pipe down

ais523:

10-07-2021 13:24:16 UTC

You probably want to set the idle Vampire Lord to have no Sepulchre. Sepulchres don’t have Sepulchres of their own.

Lulu: she/her

10-07-2021 13:37:39 UTC

@josh there’s a possible timing conflict if someone’s Sepulchre has collapsed and someone else wants to machinate their Sepulchre immediately after it collapses

Clucky: he/him

10-07-2021 15:16:10 UTC

Machination is completely fine, and one of the avenues of strategy.

The other change I’m torn on. I do think using idling players to nuke rules is a bit much. Prior to DK going idle, an enterprising player could’ve done a Machination and just gotten to nuke a room of their choice.

Maybe just make it so that idle Sepulchres stay? is there any real harm in that?

ais523:

10-07-2021 15:19:36 UTC

@Clucky: Tenuous Bridge is an idle player’s Sepulchre (established before the rule that allowed idle players’ Sepulchres to be collapsed). So we’d need to decide what to do about that square. We’d also need to work out how to do the tracking. Apart from that, though, I think you have a good idea.

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 15:24:23 UTC

Good point ais, that means that anyone can detonate the Tenuous Bridge right now if they want to.

ais523:

10-07-2021 15:25:13 UTC

They can’t, the rule says “When a Vampire Lord becomes idle while having a Sepulchre”, and the rule didn’t exist when pokes became idle so the “when” didn’t trigger.

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 15:27:18 UTC

It goes on to say “if no other Vampire Lord has collapsed that former Sepulchre since the idle Vampire Lord became idle, any Vampire Lord may collapse that former Sepulchre”

ais523:

10-07-2021 15:32:42 UTC

Yes, but it’s still modified by the “when”.

Rules can’t trigger on things that happen before they were enacted, unless they specifically say they do.

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 15:33:45 UTC

I would say “agree to disagree” but I’m sure I’d just get called a fool again.

If it comes up then we can hash it out in a CfJ. Otherwise it’s academic.

ais523:

10-07-2021 15:35:09 UTC

Like, if the rule said “if an Idle Vampire Lord has a Sepulchre, any player may collapse that sepulchre” on its own, it would work. But the rule has an explicit condition to limit it to Vampire Lords that have become idle (as opposed to which are idle), and that condition only sees Vampire Lords who idled while it existed.

Clucky: he/him

10-07-2021 15:44:37 UTC

do idle Vampire Lords have Sepulchres?

“When a Vampire Lord is unidled, if they went Idle in the same Dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the Vampire Lord Idled in a different Dynasty), the Vampire Lord is given the default value for new Vampire Lords, if such a value exists.”

To me, this says that an idle Vampire Lord does not have a Sepulchre. Were Jason to unidle, their Sepulchre status would try to retain “Burning Stream” and fail (unless someone adds a new Burning Stream in which case… CfJ time)

Josh: he/they

10-07-2021 15:47:39 UTC

I think you could probably make the argument that “Sepulchre” is a property of a room instead of (or maybe as well as) being a property of a Vampire Lord, so probably both are true; I agree that if Jason were to unidle his personal gamestate is unchanged.

Lulu: she/her

10-07-2021 16:22:11 UTC

Okay, that’s definitely broken

Brendan: he/him

10-07-2021 18:37:45 UTC

against It cost Jumble exactly as many Puissance to restore their deathtrap, with Grievous Injury and glyph in full effect, as it cost me to engineer its collapse—which I could only do by guessing that a player might eventually idle out. If there’s a part of the math that’s broken, it’s not Machination.

Clucky: he/him

10-07-2021 20:48:30 UTC

against as there are already votes and removing Machination goes too far

lemon: she/her

11-07-2021 09:41:03 UTC

against

Lulu: she/her

12-07-2021 02:41:44 UTC

against SK