As written, this will currently have no effect if “Pedantry” passes, I think?

Pedantry is doing an unnerving “including in all pending proposals” rewording.

Oh ah.

You could reduce the wording of “(the Battle Master may make this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing)” by simply making use of the rule “If a selection is explicitly specified as being “secretly” random, the Wizard making this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing, instead of the Dice Roller.” so that first sentence could be:

In “Creating a Duel” replace the text “ordered randomly” with “ordered secretly randomly”

(I’m not sure why the Pedantry overwrite is mildly unnerving. Maybe because it’s changing what people have written in their own voice - that if anyone makes a mild power move of employing the Squabble term before the proposal has enacted, that detail gets lost to history.)

But the order isn’t actually a secret. I’m worried that might suggest the order is a secret.

Jonathan already pointed out that this can be simplified but “the Battle Master may make this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing” is not grammatical and should be rewritten no matter what.

@Kevan If my next proposal contains “If this sentence contains two instances of the word ‘squabble’, then the duel Wizard named Josh has achieved Victory” then you’ll know something is up

@Clucky: it does not suggest the order is a secret, merely that the determination of the order is a secret. The position of the words is what’s important:

“ordered secretly randomly” means the randomly part is secret. This is what I’m suggesting.

“secretly ordered randomly” could be interpreted to mean that the ordered part is secret. That’s not what I’m suggesting.

Also @Clucky we’ve used this part of the rule in recent dynasties and it was well-understood that it was the determination that was secret, and “secret” was not imparted to the results. If it really becomes a problem, we could always CfJ it for clarity.

Even if the ordering was secret, the spell ring would be made public anyway when the duel is scheduled.

Wizard ring*

but will probably clean up that wordy part later