Proposal: Dice Salad [Appendix]
Timed out 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 18 Jul 2017 09:07:13 UTC
Move the bullet point beginning “If a number or other game variable is selected ‘at random’ or ‘randomly’ from a range of possible values” in “Numbers and Variables”, making it a paragraph at the end of “Random Generators”.
Remove the “VEGGIE” bullet point from “Random Generators”.
Given that “‘random’ means you have to use the GNDT” gets missed occasionally, this is perhaps in the wrong place.
And it’s maybe time to cut the Veggie die. It was added directly to the GNDT by someone in 2006 for no particular reason, and someone else immediately made a single proposal to use it to represent weather, which failed. That’s it. It was an easter egg for six years before we codified the GNDT dice in the appendix, and five years on from that we’ve still never used it for anything. Fruit has some recurring use in food mechanics and one-armed bandits, to the point where it has a little tradition, but the veggie die has absolutely zero heritage beyond one failed proposal in 2006.
Madrid:
You could say that the Veggie dice are in a vegetative state.
Yeah, the Fruit dice have been more fruitful.