BlogNomic: Insane in the Membrane

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Proposal: Insane in the Membrane

Timed out 5 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 15 Dec 2022 17:16:19 UTC

If the Proposal “It Flies Back Into your Hand” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect.

Add the following bullet at the end of the bulleted list “Explorers have the following tracked fields:” in the rule “Explorers”:

Sanity, which is a non-negative integer with a maximum value of 10. It defaults to 10.

In the subrule “Mansion Phase”, add the following bullet before the bullet that starts with “Submit a blog post with the category Story Post”:

Apply all Drawbacks from all Items in the gamestate.

Add a subrule to “Items” called “Monkey’s Paw” and give it the following text:

This Item is Cursed.

When the Monkey’s Paw is held by an Explorer at the beginning of the Explorers Phase, that Explorer gains access to a special Ploy named “Change Dread by N”, where N is an integer from -10 to 10 inclusive chosen by that Explorer. When carried out as a Planned Action, “Change Dread by N” adds N to the current Dread value. If this would reduce Dread to a value below 0, Dread is instead set to 0. That Explorer is not informed of the current or new value of Dread.

Drawback: “If an Explorer is holding the Monkey’s Paw, subtract 1 from their Sanity”.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

13-12-2022 17:35:00 UTC

You might want to be careful about the wording of applying all actions and effects of items. It might turn all flashlights on or off each turn, for example.

Should I just change it from “actions and effects” to just “effects”? I wanted to ensure that the Monkey’s Paw effect is carried out during the Mansion Phase without having to add a bullet just for it.

Suggestions welcome while there is time to edit.

Kevan: he/him

13-12-2022 18:00:45 UTC

The current ruleset is already being a bit too casual in sometimes using “effect” as a keyword and sometimes not (including “an Effect which is carried out as the effect of the Planned Action”). That’s probably a sign that we should be finding some other words to use, or at least naming them explicitly as “Item Effect”, “Malfeasance Effect”.

I’d be tempted to use “Drawback” for items, here. It restricts future ongoing effects to being negative, but that could be an interesting path to go down.