Usually if something is a one-time action (like “add to each Wizard’s Stable”) it is made part of the proposal text, rather than rules text. A provision like “if a Wizard has never had a Mysterious Egg in their Stable, then upon joining or unidling, a Mysterious Egg is added to their Stable” helps allow for new players too.

[Brendan] Thanks for that, (edited within the 2 hour window).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAxl5Kpckfs7oTWld4DUxzmQ2un8d16O/view?usp=drivesdk

Photo from my Google Drive of my niece’s interpretation of the mysterious egg. She changed the original egg drawing into a duck, and it laid another egg.

Hehe that’s brilliant, I like it!

This seems like a lot of GNDT real estate for an entity that nearly all players will want to keep around for most of the game.

The creation line is also at odds (although not catastrophically) with “A wizard may not add a creature to their stable if that creature is in another wizard’s stable.”

I think taking up a stable slot is a feature, not a bug. You want to keep it until you can cash it out properly, but you also want to free up space in your stable.

I would argue it creates a meaningful tactical decision.

It’s a meaningful decision, but for most people I think the decision is going to be, probably for several weeks, “don’t use the thing”.

Hmm. Love the idea, but execution still needs rework. Four bugs that I’d want to be fixing (or exploiting if I felt like it).

Maybe we should come up with a way to display a proposal for review before it becomes voteable, and in a way that’s also editable? Would it be fun to group edit something? Could be a normal post with edit-enabling link to a Google Doc.

Let’s try it. How does this look as an alternative? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oe2mg7pdY6h_xlF0mdVa4ZQ1bYS9agUXu-zXh1zhExM/edit?usp=drivesdk

A Nomic with a lot of group editing would be interesting, but I think attaching that mechanic to BlogNomic hits some of the problems that “Protosals” bring.

If I thought we needed a mechanic allowing one free mutation per game, I’d probably just do it as an adjective on the creature. (When you mutate something, if you make it Spectral you don’t have to pay its mutation cost; but you can only have one Spectral creature in your Stable, and you can’t easily get rid of it.)

Fair enough, then let’s avoid adding on a protosal mechanic. As for the above linked doc, since the purpose is to avoid simple errors, vs to take a straw poll, some of those objections seem less relevant.

Anyway, I put it in a new post before I saw your reply. Continue this conversation there?