Thursday, December 15, 2005

Proposal: Grue Tag (draft II)

2-10. Can’t be enacted w/o Cov (at most, it can get tied).—Chronos

Adminned at 16 Dec 2005 03:51:37 UTC

Okay, first time playing this so first post wasn’t water tight and a bit too allovertheplace. So, DRAFT II is below - the term slain would still have to be defined later::::

Add a new rule called “Grue Tag” that reads as follows:

When a protagonist who’s role is “Grue” (Hereafter in this rule referred to as the “Monster”) is slain by a protagonist who’s role is not “Grue” (hereafter in this rule referred to as the “Slayer”), the Slayer’s role becomes “Grue” and the Monster’s role becomes “Unemployed”.

Add a new sub-section named “Unemployed” to the rule “Characters”

A protagonist who’s role is “Unemployed” has eir location immediately changed to “The Ruins of the Fortress of Cheese”. A protagonist who’s role is “Unemployed” must remain in ‘The Ruins of the Fortress of Cheese” as long as eir role is “Unemployed”. If a protagonist has no role, eir role becomes “Unemployed”.

Future revisions may consider adding “Do not pass GO, Do not collect $200”

Comments

Quazie:

15-12-2005 02:53:10 UTC

imperial better but still need a slain thing.  Who thinks we should make an option called proto-proposal that can be changed dealt with like a proposal or something, thus we wouldn’t have to deal with lots of drafts, once it becomes a proposal, old comments get colored a different color or somting?

AgentHH:

15-12-2005 03:02:37 UTC

I enjoy this suggestion of proto-proposal. Maybe post as a non-official post so that it may be edited, and then repost as a proposal later?

I also agree that how to slay must be defined, but otherwise I like it.

imperial

Why is the icon title IMPERIAL? Why not DEFERENTIAL? Is the IMPERIAL left over from some previous dynasty?

Saurik:

15-12-2005 03:02:44 UTC

Quazie: I’d be sad that we’d lose the history of the changes, and I’d even be irritated that I wouldn’t be able to look back and see why a particular argument in the phased out comments was made (as the original text was gone). Why doesn’t this blog keep edit histories? ;P

AgentHH:

15-12-2005 03:06:18 UTC

Well, we could use the wiki, but… blech.

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

15-12-2005 03:33:24 UTC

You can use the Wiki for whatever you want; if you want to post a draft and invite comments, just make a regular post to the blog.  Doesn’t have to be an official game action.

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

15-12-2005 03:44:39 UTC

Regarding Imperial, the original term for the Narrator was the Emperor, and the term “Deferential” just sort of evolved, I think.

Saurik:

15-12-2005 03:45:01 UTC

Actually, I quite like the idea of using the Wiki. Ooo… *Just got an inkling of a crazy idea of how to build a really awesome system for managing Propositions and Rules involving a Wiki, a revision control system, and transaction tagging… but it isn’t quite formed enough yet to bother trying to serialize it.*

Saurik:

15-12-2005 03:46:55 UTC

‘A protagonist who’s role is “Unemployed” has eir location immediately changed to “The Ruins of the Fortress of Cheese”.’

A problem with this is that the fact that the Protagonist’s Role is Unemployed doesn’t change when he gets there. This should be worded something like ‘When a Protagonist’s Role becomes Unemployed.’ or some such.

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

15-12-2005 07:02:06 UTC

Saurik,

There was a game called WikiNomic that (if I recall) failed pretty rapidly.  I think we’d better make sure BlogNomic stays true to its name.  ;)

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

15-12-2005 07:11:46 UTC

against at the moment.  This Rule pretty much locks everyone (except AG) in the Fortress of Cheese until they acquire a different Role, and right now Roles are sparse, while Locations are more up-and-coming.

Plus there’s no creative explanation why being Unemployed would lock you there in the first place.  If there were I might vote differently XD

Cayvie:

15-12-2005 08:04:19 UTC

for

Moonwryn:

15-12-2005 09:43:21 UTC

against

Angry Grasshopper:

15-12-2005 13:27:32 UTC

Gotta be able to defend myself before I’ll vote on anything like this.

ChronosPhaenon:

15-12-2005 13:42:41 UTC

against Just because of turning everyone Unemployed. The rest is fine

notafraud:

15-12-2005 17:07:05 UTC

Righto, in a day or two I’ll redraft again. Anyone have suggestions for re-wording?

Hix:

15-12-2005 17:43:01 UTC

against

Excalabur:

16-12-2005 03:51:45 UTC

against A person whose role /becomes/ x is moved to y.

etc.  make sure that continuing verbs cause other continuing verbs, and vice versa. 

Also, loopholes WILL get exploited.  be warned. 

due to this, try to avoid writing them, because if they get noticed, your prop WILL fail.

Saurik:

16-12-2005 07:32:06 UTC

I already said why I’m against this.

The Lone Amigo:

16-12-2005 09:49:49 UTC

against