BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Here’s my walkthrough: After Recharging, I would have started the week with 30 Energy, Mastery in 3F3N2A1W1T and two Totems, and I would be in an Arcane Location. RAH-FOC-ZO-DEL-HE (“destroy Totem belonging to named Apprentice”) spells cost 1.5 Energy to Craft or Cast - I would Craft four and Cast six, for 15 Energy, to destroy all other Apprentices’ Totems. RAH-FOC-ZO-MAS-ME-SAC (“spend a Totem to achieve victory”) costs 5 to Craft and another 5 to cast, and I would meet its difficulty requirements. In all I would have spent 25 of my 30 Energy.

(Doing the sums, I think Spitemaster was mistaken to round the Doom Spells’ costs to 1 Energy - (5*1.5)-3-3 is 1.5, and there’s nothing that I can see in the ruleset that defines Energy as an integer.)

Hmm, yeah.  I did that because other people were rounding. (that is: Teleport = 4.5, Magic Wand = 3.5)

Also, 3.3.1: “If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers.[...]If a rule implies that the result of any calculation should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the calculation is instead the result rounded towards 0.”

So it seems valid.

Hmm… No wait, I’m wrong.  That only refers to the casting of it, not the Cost of the spell.  And excess Energy spent on casting would be wasted.

“If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers”

“Each Power has a Name, a Description, an Effect and a Cost, which may be negative”

Cost never says it can be a non-integer, so is an integer by definition and so Costs are rounded down.

anyways, this really feels like… a little too unnecessarily complex. If someone other than Spitemaster and Kevan think they are “clever” then I’ll probably reconsider, but I’d rather just go ahead and flip a coin and end this. 

...not a valid vote until Purplebeard votes. And tomorrow he might get idled

Look, Clucky said he opted out in the one Post, quirck opted out in a comment to that post. I wouldn’t have tried to win in the first place. That just leaves Kevan, Larry, and Spitemaster. It is doubtful that my turtley friend could have won, so just roll DICE2 already.

Self-kill in favour of RaichuKFM’s follow-up proposal since everyone else has now opted out, and our Wizard is almost idle.