Call for Judgment: I spotted a loophole
Fewer than a quorum not voting against. Failed 1 vote to 7 by Kevan.
Adminned at 28 Oct 2020 20:18:05 UTC
As written, I think all uses of the grinding stone should have a cost of exactly 1 turn and no more.
Tools says “A Monk may use a tool that they are holding at any time by spending its turn cost in turns and applying its effect”. So you spend 1 Turn and carry out the effect.
The effect of Grinding Stone is to “immediately perform a Tile Action”.
The rule Turns separates out spending Turns from the actual carrying out of the Tile Action (“In order to perform a Tile Action, a Monk must spend” is separate from “As a Tile Action, a Monk may do one of the following”). “In order to perform and tile action” makes spending Turns a pre-requisite of performing a Tile Action, but not actually part of the Tile Action itself. My read of that is that Grinding Stone allows that you (well, actually, requires you to) perform the Tile Action without carrying out the “spend turns” step that comes before it. It contributes to the snowball for subsequent turns but doesn’t actually require any further expenditure.
Solution: change the following text in the rule Turns:
In order to perform a Tile Action, a Monk must spend 1 Turn plus 1 additional Turn for every other Tile Action they have performed over the last 12 hours
As a Tile Action, a Monk may do one of the following:
To read as follows:
A Monk may carry out a Tile Action at any time by carrying out the following steps: first, a Monk must spend 1 Turn plus 1 additional Turn for every other Tile Action they have performed over the last 12 hours. Then they may choose one from the following:
Kevan: he/him
This need to clarify how to handle past actions, doesn’t it? You’ve been paying a base of 1 Turn to grind stones, other players have been paying a base of 2. Are your actions Upheld? Do other players get refunds?