Monday, February 10, 2025

Proposal: Herding Cats

Reached quorum, 6-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 12 Feb 2025 19:16:13 UTC

Insert the following paragraph after the paragraph that starts with “Each Meeple has three Tokens” in “The Isle of BoardGamia”:

When the rules say that a Token may perform an action, then this means that a Meeple may apply that action to a Token they control.

Append the following paragraphs to the Local Rule of The Island of Kittens:

Each Token has a publicly tracked number of Kittens following it, which defaults to 1. A Small Token may have a maximum of 1 Kitten following it, a Medium Token a maximum of 2, and a Big Token a maximum of 4; a Token or Meeple may not take any action which would set a Token’s Kittens beyond its maximum.

As a Phase 1 Turn Action, a Token that occupies a purple square may gain 1 Kitten and set the colour of that square to white.
As a Phase 3 Turn Action, a Token may transfer some Kittens to another Token controlled by the same Meeple that occupies the same square.
As a Phase 3 Turn Action, a Token may spend 1 Kitten to set the colour of three white squares on the Island of Kittens that do not contain any Tokens to purple.

As a Phase 4 Turn Action, a Token (the “cattacker”) may incite its Kittens to attack another Token (the “victim”) with fewer Kittens that occupies the same square. The cattacker loses 1 Kitten, and the victim’s Position is set to 0.

I’ve noticed there is a lack of kittens on the Island of Kittens. Allow me to remedy this

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

10-02-2025 21:43:55 UTC

I do like the phrase “the cattacker”

ais523: Custodian

10-02-2025 22:48:23 UTC

Although I think “chased off to” works, it’s the sort of rules wording that seems likely to inspire disagreement.

Habanero:

10-02-2025 22:57:46 UTC

*sigh* If you insist. Rulestext is so bland and boring these days…

Habanero:

10-02-2025 22:58:32 UTC

(That was in jest, by the way, though it wasn’t very clear)

Raven1207: he/they

11-02-2025 00:57:04 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

11-02-2025 01:06:42 UTC

for

Desertfrog:

11-02-2025 07:01:27 UTC

for

Snisbo: she/they

12-02-2025 00:01:55 UTC

for

ais523: Custodian

12-02-2025 16:34:38 UTC

for I have some reservations about what this might do to the readability/editability of the tracker, but I like the mechanics.

Perhaps we should track the kitten counts in the “The Island of Kittens” section of the tracker, rather than the “Global Gamestate” section.

Habanero:

12-02-2025 17:29:35 UTC

The gamestate is already very unreadable with having to constantly cross-reference the grid and the Positions, and this’ll probably only make it worse because now there’s Kittens to keep track of. If only it were possible to render the tokens and their kittens on the grid somehow without it looking too bad

JonathanDark: he/him

12-02-2025 17:56:18 UTC

We could use/add pictograms for the kittens: https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Category:Pictogram_Templates

Not sure what to do about tokens, though. 9 Meeples * 3 tokens = 27 images to track, so unlikely a visual representation per square is going to work.