Friday, August 21, 2020

Proposal: Fragile tools

Timed out 4 votes to 2. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 23 Aug 2020 14:09:44 UTC

Append the following to the effect of “Damaging” in the rule “Equipment”:

If this Discovery is a Mineral, the reaction damages the equipment: the Applying Pathfinder must lose the applied Equipment, or another Item they are carrying if the one applied was Single-Use. If the Discovery is an Animal or a Vegetable, the results are frightening: the Applying Pathfinder must lose one of their Items. In both cases, if the Pathfinder no longer has any Items, this Effect does nothing.

Making Applying a bit more risky before we unlock it.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

21-08-2020 14:13:50 UTC

This needs to take into account Single-Use equipment; if someone uses a Canister of Glarsh on Sudorite and it proves to be Damaging, they’ll already have lost the Canister before they try to apply the Consequence.

Aname:

21-08-2020 14:31:00 UTC

Quick fix: if you used a Single-Use equipment you lose something else.

Kevan: he/him

21-08-2020 15:12:44 UTC

Quick problem: What if you don’t have anything else? (Same issue if you’re just carrying one Glarsh and it’s Damaging to an Animal: you’ve got nothing left to drop.)

Aname:

21-08-2020 15:27:07 UTC

My intention was that nothing happens, but as it stands it looks like you get stuck and can’t finish the action. I’ll make the wording clearer.

Kevan: he/him

21-08-2020 15:40:26 UTC

Afraid there’s still a dead end here - if I’m carrying 1 Glarsh and nothing else, and use it Damagingly on a Mineral I must “lose the applied Equipment, or another Item they are carrying if the one applied was Single-Use”, and can do neither.

Kevan: he/him

21-08-2020 15:40:52 UTC

(Although I guess that’s obscure enough that we can patch it later, I do like the idea here.)

Aname:

21-08-2020 15:50:07 UTC

Doesn’t the “if you don’t have items then this does nothing” clause let you escape the dead end?

Kevan: he/him

21-08-2020 15:56:04 UTC

Oh! You’re right, I misread that as being part of the Vegetable/Animal sentence.

for

derrick: he/him

21-08-2020 15:57:32 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

21-08-2020 18:42:14 UTC

against

Madrid:

22-08-2020 13:08:47 UTC

for

Riggdan: he/him

22-08-2020 13:23:10 UTC

against