Thursday, June 21, 2007

Proposal: Curriculum Diabolus

Reached quorum of six votes.

Adminned at 23 Jun 2007 03:16:39 UTC

Throughout the ruleset and gamestate…

  • Replace “IT Daemon” with “Dimurgos”.
  • Replace “Daemon Resources” with “Mephistopheles”.
  • Replace “Courtroom Daemon” with “Astaroth”.

Also replace “breed” with “name”, and “controls” with “employs”, throughout the “Daemons” rule.

posted by Kevan at 21 Jun 2007 10:48:01 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Brendan: he/him

21-06-2007 11:37:08 UTC

for Hah, “controls” to “employs” is nicely sinister.

Rodney:

21-06-2007 15:05:57 UTC

for

Chivalrybean:

21-06-2007 15:24:12 UTC

Oh, why not. for

BobTHJ:

21-06-2007 18:16:25 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

22-06-2007 12:06:50 UTC

for

Bucky:

22-06-2007 17:41:01 UTC

against I like the cartoony names better.

Chivalrybean:

22-06-2007 22:28:55 UTC

The cartoony names make it easier to keep track of… COV against

Kevan: he/him

23-06-2007 09:11:56 UTC

Game jargon is half the fun of Nomic, for me - that after a week of using these names, they’ll all become easily-remembered shorthand, and we’ll be saying things like “Oh no, half the players have Mephistopheles working for them!”.

In some cases they’ll be more intuitive, once you’ve read up on them - the effect of “Mephistopheles” is arguably much more easy to remember than that of “Daemon Resources”. And we’ll all have learnt something about historical demonology!