Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Proposal: Freeze!

Reached quorum 8-1. Enacted by card.

Adminned at 01 Jun 2017 15:41:30 UTC

Add an ability to the Military Background:-

A Military Explorer may make a public post indicating that they DRAW THEIR WEAPON. The Expedition Leader shall then confirm that the Explorer has drawn their weapon, at which point the Military Explorer is considered to be Armed (and by default, is not). If a Military Explorer is Armed, they may hold an Explorer in the same Location as them at Gunpoint, or may stop holding an Explorer at Gunpoint, by making a post announcing this. (If one Explorer is holding another at Gunpoint, this is tracked by having the first Explorer’s Location GNDT field list the second Explorer’s name. If an Explorer is being held at Gunpoint by an Explorer who is at a different Location, they stop being held at Gunpoint.) An Explorer who is being held at Gunpoint may not change their own Location, take Supplies or use Background powers.

posted by Kevan at 30 May 2017 17:06:00 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

Cpt_Koen:

30-05-2017 17:13:24 UTC

for

Madrid:

30-05-2017 17:16:06 UTC

Publicly-revealing roles does help with anti-Cultisting, but I fear that it might be too powerful with half of the roles being public, but oh well.

Benefit a Majority/Punish a Minority and all that for

Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: he/they

30-05-2017 19:27:53 UTC

for

orkboi:

30-05-2017 20:19:47 UTC

against not fond of “can’t do anything” type rules

pokes:

30-05-2017 20:54:20 UTC

for I like having a way to debilitate suspected Cultists without needing to resort to anything that makes the “can’t do anything” more permanent, if you know what I mean

Madrid:

30-05-2017 21:24:24 UTC

I will cry if there are actually zero cultists and Sphinx is like

Kevan: he/him

30-05-2017 22:29:49 UTC

Again, can you not post images with huge file sizes to the blog, Cuddlebeam? Once the header image gets cached, the BlogNomic site is quite lightweight, and I assume regulars generally expect that - a player on a limited phone data plan won’t want to download an all-dancing, all-colour 635kb version of the word “chuckles”.

Madrid:

30-05-2017 22:40:19 UTC

Dangit I thought it was good enough to be considered “small” this time, sorry.

Sphinx:

30-05-2017 23:35:12 UTC

So, Explorer A is at Base Camp. He holds Explorer B at gunpoint. At this point, what exactly does Explorer A’s Location GNDT field change to? “B” or “Base Camp, B” or something else?

In any case, the Location of Explorer A now is a different Location than the Location of Explorer B. Or is it? Does changing a GNDT field change the Gamestate Value it was tracking before?

Also, what happens to the Location field if A stops holding B at Gunpoint?

I like the Mechanic, but the implementation is too ambiguous/weird for me.
against

card:

31-05-2017 03:21:11 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

31-05-2017 07:47:25 UTC

I was just looking for a way to track Gunpoint without adding an extra GNDT field.

My intention in writing it was that Explorer A’s Location field would become “Explorer B”, but their actual Location would remain unchanged - and anyone who wanted to know Explorer A’s Location could just look at Explorer B’s Location (since Gunpoint requires both Explorers to have the same Location). If A stopped pointing at gun at B, their Location field would revert to whatever it was.

Cpt_Koen:

31-05-2017 10:46:25 UTC

for The ambiguity with the Location field may come from the verb “list” which makes it unclear if the Location field should be “Explorer B” or “Base Camp, Explorer B”.

I don’t think this ambiguity is much of a problem though, as it’s only about the tracking, not the actual Gamestate, and both values would be understandable.

duck:

01-06-2017 06:11:13 UTC

for

Sphinx:

01-06-2017 11:49:13 UTC

for CoV