Withdrawn and failed -SingularByte
Adminned at 21 Jan 2025 20:35:21 UTC
Change the title of the rule “Guesses {M}” to “Guesses {I}” and append the following to it:
Guesses are a mutable variable. If the outcome of a successful Heist Action would change any English word in the ruletext that matches any Participant’s Guess, then instead, that Heist Action does not change that word.
What am I missing here? Wouldn’t both teams immediately set their Guesses to their rivals target and thus prevent all scoring?
It stops you from changing a word *from* something, rather than *to* something.
Aha. Okay.
So it will promote wham-bam plays that take four or five Heist actions in a go, as anything slower will be immediately blocked?
That is a good point. I think it’d be preferable if either this only worked on words in plain english, or words that hadn’t been modified by a heist action since the last target assignment.
This now reverses the original precept that Heist Actions should only make words and instead insists that it mustn’t make words instead. Interesting.
Ah, we’re out of edit window. I think 
- I think a free, blanket, unblockable, fire-at-will plan disruptor might be bad for game balance.
I like the general principle but think that this implementation is probably slightly too powerful.
On thinking about it more, I agree with Josh that this might be a bit much
It might be something that could go in a role, just so only one member of a team can do it at a time.
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Habanero:
I like this. Interesting to give some ways of restricting rules modification