BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

we’ll eventually want a method to randomly select a card from all the ones not selected, to reduce the number of rerolls once the deck gets thin.

Also, what’s the motivation behind this?

No real agenda, I just think it’s sometimes fun to have unconnected mechanics that can potentially tie in later.

Making everything too tightly interlinking at this stage makes the game feel v rigid to me.

I touched on this in a first draft essay last week; I think too many unconnected mechanics can be unhealthy for a dynasty, but need to pick that apart a bit more. It does seem to be a Nomic cliche to have a funfair of different mechanics which gain complexity without ever quite joining together, and never amount to anything.

I’m not immediately sure how people finding playing cards (in their pockets? in the wreckage?) can tie into the other mechanics, here, but like it a lot for being the kind of thing you’d get in a mysterious drama serial.

inb4 the dice roller gets a card tag

[Jumble] Good idea, I’ve added it.

  Not sure where this is going, but I’m interested. Hopefully it won’t be a vestigial mechanic by the time the Dynasty ends.

+1 for new command. Should it be mentioned in the Ruleset?

Yes, it should be in the ruleset so that we know what its range is (I went with the definition here and made it a regular deck without jokers) and to make unauthorised changes to it illegal.