That would mean that you could get halfway through an atomic, decide it wasn’t going the way you wanted, and nope out? I dunno, that seems like it could be really bad in dynasties where atomics are used in a competitive setting

if i could edit maybe i could add some qualifiers, but if u think it’s that utterly unsalvageable an idea,

I do, sorry - I considered not voting but I think the principle that an action, once started, has to be completed is kinda hard-baked into not just this game but probably most games?

Actually this might have been a low-etiquette vote, in which case sorry. I probably could have let discussion happen a bit.

this was specifically sposed to be about something like what we had the other day when someone payed too little for a sigil, so their sigil was reverted, but the full cost would have dusted them, i believe? idk if anything actually came of that conversation tho

it was an underthought proposal, i had the idea that i could just post it and come back and edit in some “before you’ve applied any legal effects / rolled any dice” clauses in a couple hours but i spose that was shortsighted n i shouldve just waited to propose until i was feeling more up for the task of writing in qualifiers

I think I’d go the other way on the issue - maybe enshrine in the rules that attempting to take an action commits you, even if you do it wrong - it lends itself to deliberate, tactical self-sabotage less

This doesn’t interact properly with random choices made during atomic actions; you can get a bad dice roll, then decide to cancel rather than continuing (and start a new action later hoping for a better roll).

It’s self-killed folks, no need for further againsts