Proposal: Creature Feature
Enacted 6-0. Josh
Adminned at 15 Jul 2021 08:17:32 UTC
In the rule Crypt of Dracula, change the paragraph that starts “Lighting a Room is a Power Action with a cost of 3” to read as follows:
Lighting a Room is a Power Action with a cost of 3 plus the total Shadow scores of the Effects being placed in that Room (the total cost of this action cannot be less than 1). The Vampire Lord carrying it out may select a room and set it to Lit, giving it a name and a description, marking it as Newly Furnished, and any number of Effects (or “none” if it has no Effects), in an order of the Vampire Lord’s choosing. A Room may not have more than one copy of an Effect. When adding an Effect with the string ‘[x]’ in its description, a Vampire Lord must replace [x] with their own name. A Room may be considered to have any property implied by an effect (e.g. a room can be said to “have a Glyph”, “be blocked from the north”, “be Daunting”), although the text of the Effect is sovereign for determining such properties.
In the same rule, change “There is a list of Lit rooms which is publicly tracked, showing - for each room - the name of the room, a brief flavour-text description of its contents, and its effect on Richardo von Nestor when he enters it” to read “There is a list of Lit rooms which is publicly tracked, showing - for each room - the name of the room, a brief flavour-text description of its contents, and any Effects it has.”
In the rule Richardo’s Journey, change
Apply any effects of the features of his current location, in the order that they are listed in the rule Features, to Richardo
to read
Apply any Effects at his current location, in the order that they are listed in the rule Effects, to Richardo
Throughout the rest of the ruleset, wherever it appears, change the word “Feature” to “Effect” and “Features” to “Effects”, including renaming the rule Features to Effects.
The distinction between Features and Effects isn’t really useful.
ais523:
So when looking through the ruleset to see whether this would break anything (in particular, whether it would cause rooms to lose all their existing features in the transition), I noticed that room effects aren’t officially being tracked anywhere, making them an orphan variable (and thus making the entire gameplay of this dynasty so far illegal). This probably needs a CFJ to fix, but the wording would need to be tied into the wording of this proposal somehow (at least, we’d need to make sure the two were compatible).