Proposal: Even Cooler Acronyms
Add a subrule to the rule “Acronym” called “Acroname”, with the following text:
There is a publicly tracked Acroname, which is either empty or a flavor text string of two to thirty alphabetical letters, defaulting to empty.
Acrospecify is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Choose whether to use an English word from the [[EFF Wordlist]], or the name of a currently active Worsmith.
* If the first option is chosen, set the Acroname to a publicly randomly chosen word from the [[EFF Wordlist]].
* If the second option is chosen, publicly randomly select a currently active Wordsmith and set the Acroname to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed.
If the Acroname is empty, the Puzzler may Acrospecify.
We can set up a way to make Backronyms for the Acroname later- I simply wanted to set up the potential for word-based acronyms as well as randomly generated ones, since the Ascension Address uses DRAGON as an example. The reason for the Acroname being up to 30 letters is because that seems to be the character limit for Wordsmith names.
JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him
So just to be clear, the options for the Puzzler are to either select an English word of the Puzzler’s choosing or a random Wordsmith’s name?
I’m wondering if it would be better to have the Puzzler choose a random English word, for example from the EFF Wordlist. I’d personally rather not want to choose a specific English word on purpose without any other guidance.