Fewer than a quorum not voting against. Failed 1 vote to 7 by Kevan.
Adminned at 02 Jan 2023 19:48:06 UTC
In section ‘Explorers’, add a subsection denoted as ‘Ages’ with the following text:
Age is a publicly known variable that is recorded on the gamestate. If an Explorer’s age is blank, that Explorer can set their age to ‘Child’, ‘Adult’, or ‘Elderly’. Age can restrict the abilities that a player can do known by the rules of the ruleset.
Can an Explorer change their Age multiple times or just once? It’s fine if your intention is to allow multiple changes, but I thought I’d call this out.
You don’t need the phrase “Age can restrict the abilities that a player can do known by the rules of the ruleset.” as that will come with whatever future Proposals contain rules regarding Age.
I would also recommend re-wording this a bit to match the language of the ruleset so that it’s more clear. There’s already a bulleted list that contains the tracked fields of Explorers, so just add Age to this list, like so…
In the rule “Explorers” add the following bullet to the end of the bullet list:
* Age, which is a string with the valid values “Child”, “Adult”, or “Elderly”, defaulting to “Adult”
I’d say this needs some mechanics associated with it in the proposal. It would probably be fine as an early proposal, but I’m suspecting stub proposals aren’t going to be fleshed out much if we’re already in the late mid-game.
If you didn’t like my suggestion of what to change it to, or you wanted to add more to it based on SingularByte’s suggestion, comment here or in Discord what kinds of abilities you envisioned Age to affect. We can help you craft the Proposal so that it works as you intended in your head. No sense in wasting your Proposal slot if we can help you make it a productive one.
I don’t think the hanging variable is a good idea in any event, but the first sentence accidentally(?) defines a single Age variable not associated with any particular Explorer which means the rest of the rule doesn’t function.
If you’re not sure how to word a rule, it’s always a safe bet to just base it off of one that already does a similar thing (eg. “Advantages and Disadvantages”, or any of many rules from past dynasties).
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Raven1207: he/they
I know it might be an orphan variable but I was just thinking that if this dynasty is going to be based of Betrayal on the Hill that it could be something to implement