BTW, I’d be willing to change the actual wiki documents, if people are worried about this being hard to admin.

  This would be easier than changing the keywords at the start of a dynasty.

no need to change it

as Galdyn

This would set a bad precedent, I feel. I don’t want players who want to add some flavour to their proposals to feel obliged to adhere to some (relatively) obscure source material they’re not familiar with.

@Purplebeard: that’s precisely why this proposal exists; so we can get mechanics right first, and then fix the flavour later. The whole point is that the two can be independent. The existence of this sort of proposal should encourage “misflavoured” proposals, because they can always be fixed later.

Just because players propose flavourful rules that don’t fit the theme exactly doesn’t mean that they need ‘fixing’. If anything, I would consider it a signal that the original theme was too constricting, or simply not interesting enough to stick to. The gameplay is constantly evolving, so why shouldn’t the flavour evolve as well? Players will generally only use flavour that they can relate to when they write proposals. Evidently, some players feel more comfortable with a broader theme than nethack to base their ideas on. To change the wording in the ruleset to fit the original theme would only serve to stifle their creativity (not that it really matters at this point in the dynasty, but it’s the principle of the thing).

I’m also not sure what you mean by your last point. If someone commented on a proposal of mine with “I like the mechanic, but we’ll have to fix the rule to change ‘brie’ to ‘camambert’ in the second paragraph, as Monet never ate brie” in the impressionism dynasty, I’d be more inclined to base all my future proposals in that dynasty on fart jokes than to continue trying to post interesting proposals that may not exactly fit a theme I can’t relate to or am not intimately familiar with.

For the record, I’m not averse to flavour-related changes in general, but I feel we need a better reason than ‘it fits the original theme slightly better’, especially when only two or three players are actually familiar with its subject.

Is there any reason *not* to change it?

There’s no reason not to rename two-handed swords as claymores, but would it really add to the immersion? I don’t see how these changes are an improvement over the current situation, and they would only validate some mistakes made earlier in the dynasty (wanting to be too much like nethack).

btw Ienpw the reason not to change it is to prevent ais from getting more treasure.

My vote remains FOR, per Galdyn, because although I don’t see how this gives ais more treasure, I bet it’s a scam.

It isn’t.

Well, it still might be. You could be trying to trick us.

COV