Ooh, I just made my first (legal) proposal, too.  I like this idea.

I have two questions:

- For “half of Quorum mortals,” are Dead mortals counted?  Or only Children and Adults?  If the latter is true, then this seems like a nice way of cycling new mortals into life and old mortals out.  But if the former is true, it seems that this rule will quickly create a necrotocracy.  Which could be interesting, I’ll admit.  We haven’t yet come up with many things for Dead mortals to do, but we certainly could…

- Which Divinity gets to create the new Child?

If these two issues are cleared up, I will vote in favor—but will then ask for an amendment permitting infant mortality.  It seems unfair and unrealistic to say that only Adults can die.

Thelas, it looks like most proposal posts begin in the following way:

“Add a new subrule to the rule entitled ‘Mortals,’ entitled Cycle of Life:”

And then the rest of your post would be inside a blockquote.  I don’t know if your failure to do this invalidates the proposal, or makes it unclear how that proposal would fit into the ruleset.  I suppose if this is an issue, a simple fix would be to create a follow-up proposal stating where this rule (if it passes) would fit.

I intend to only count Children and Adults, though my proposal will probably fail because I didn’t say that, and it’s just whoever first gets here… and has wiki access, I suppose.

- Either way, we can fix these other issues once/ if your proposal passes.  I like it.

“At time X, a thing happens” is problematic - it means that the gamestate sits around in an undocumented state until someone updates it. And if everyone forgets to process the automatic Adult-Death effect one week, and we don’t realise until three weeks later, we end up in a retroactive mess.

It’s safer and clearer to word these things as “at any time on a Friday, a Divinity may make a thing happen, unless another Divinity has already done so on that day”.

self-kill. I’ll make a revised proposal in a bit.

And yes, you need to specifically enact a new rule with this text, rather than just having it as a proposal effect; as it stands, I think this would be read as an “update the gamestate” proposal that took an infinite amount of time to enact.

Basic idea is fine, anyway, and I particularly like the Vulnerability table; would support it with the above changes.

Go for it.  I like what this will add to the game—though I do think infant mortality should not be overlooked.