As someone new to nomic - have read all the FAQs and rules and cetera, but still getting to grips with the vocab etc. - I’m confused about the key and dice markings. How do dice work on Blog Nomic and how does that affect this particular item?

Thanks for your patience with me.

To tell you the truth, I don’t really know how dice work. There is a single section of the Ruleset that describes that you can’t have negative dice. Other than that, I’ve only found a few Common Law usages by players.

As for how it affects this item… it makes a number of separate items that may in the future have meaning, but as of yet have no rules relating to them. I could give you interesting concepts for what might be done with this, but I figure I can just leave that up to future proposals, by either myself or others.

Type DICEX into the GNDT as comment, where X is a positive integer, to roll an X sided die. You can also type FRUIT to generate a random type of fruit.

Useful for random events, shark attacks, that sort of stuff.

Damn, had I known that that concept was in place I would have done “FRUIT Flavored Key” ;P.

Have a look at http://kevan.org/bnwiki.pl?GenericNomicDataTracker for more GNDT commands.

:FOR, though we need an inventory location and stat.

more materialism is more better

Quazie: You didn’t actually do a full FOR (missing close :). (Although I guess that _could_ have been on purpose.)

I would enjoy a Bar flavoured key.

I like this. But does the “key named dice24” count as a single word in the context of the game or not?

I doubt it. I think the seven word limit is really bad.

even silly me

Ahhh, we’ll do something with this I guess.

Well it’s good, then. But.. a turquoise hooch key would make my day.

“Key marked 13” would probably count as 3 words, of course.  But in some of the better Text Adventures, you could usually get away with being ambiguous (e.g. “>drop key”), and you would get a prompt asking for more information (e.g. “Which key should I drop?”)

This Proposal purposely doesn’t care where the Inventory is stored/managed. What is in your inventory is determinable from the rules and the list of actions that have been performed using the rules. Whether this happens to be stored on a Wiki page, in the GNDT, or in the heads the Protagonists

This is almost true.  The problem is, nothing has established how things are kept track of.  If the concept of “a Location’s Inventory” had already been established (and Enacted), you would indeed not have to indicate where the stuff is stored.

However, if this passes, the actions it instructs cannot be performed because there is nothing in the Ruleset to handle them.  And any instructions not denoted in the Ruleset, or somewhere else allowed by the Ruleset, are ephemeral, and they pretty much disappear the moment the Proposal is Enacted.

Plus, it wouldn’t be too hard to add something to this Proposal, like:

“If Locations exist but do not have Inventories, add the following to to the rule Locations:

“Blah blah blah, here’s the stuff that says what Inventories are and how they work and where they’re kept track of.”

For that matter, you could even add something like:

“If at any time Locations have Inventories, perform the following instructions, and then delete the instructions, along with this paragraph.”

So.  I really like the ideas behind this Proposal, and I want to see them pass.  However, I don’t think it’s worth ditching Dynasties’ worth of precedent to start allowing undefined instructions to be implemented according to a random Admin’s—- including my own—- interpretation.

Ooh, hey, this meets quorum!