BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I like it. I do have a few things that could use cleanup or clarification

should probably replace “color” with “available color”, either here or in the definition of color, to make it clear that you can’t cheat in rumored colors this way

is pennant intended to be adjacent tiles? or are 1,1; 1,5; 5,1; and 5,5 technically a 2x2 square of Tiles?

Flower I think should be “not green or gold”

Good points, “available color” and “or gold” have been applied.

Reading four distant tiles as a “2x2 square” isn’t the intention, and seems like an enormous stretch.

I agree. I think we’re good. But I could see someone maybe trying to argue otherwise

I was on the same track but this is so much more elegant.

At the risk of rube-ishly popping the obvious bubble: should we act to prevent the make-a-benediction, claim it, change-one-tile, change-it-back, claim it again cycle? Or are we okay with that kind of boringly OpTiMaL play?

I think its fine

It both costs a bunch of turns, and its also hard to change the color of non-white tiles.

I wouldn’t do it as part of this proposal, because its better to keep thinks simple, but I could imagine something where a motif “levels up” its tiles. and that could be another way around that sort of play

I think that would be tricky to pull off, as other people would be able to more efficiently claim the benediction once you changed a tile because of the scaling cost of Tile Actions.

more I think about it, I do worry a bit about it being “optimal” to just spend three turns changing a flower petal and a couple of guilders (once you’ve reduced the prices down enough) and then changing it back to get 10 guilders. rather than further developing the board. But I think we have a bit of time before someone actually forms a flower and gets the guilder cost low enough for it to be worth it

Have proposed a restriction on colour-changing which should slow things down.

I can’t think of a better way to phrase “2x2 square” that doesn’t sound completely bananas. I will personally lead the CfJ into battle if anyone tries to claim that [3,1] [4,3] [2,4] [1,2] is a “2x2 square” because it has four corners.

If there were someway to prevent immediate reuse, I’d be onboard.

Changing my vote given Purple is the New Black