Monday, August 14, 2006

Proposal: It’s always funny until someone gets hurt.

Cannot be Enacted without CoV (1-7)
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 14 Aug 2006 12:15:01 UTC

proposal: It’s always funny until someone gets hurt.
Then it becomes hilarious.

It’s always funny until someone gets hurt:
Every time someone pulls a prank (like Thelonious’s light blocking), if the “Time Joker”

tells em “it’s your birthday”, the prankster gets a 1DICE20 influence bonus.

The Time Joker:
1. Every new week, the Time Joker selects a new Time Joker.
2. Nobody can be the Time Joker twice.
3. The new Time Joker will be the most “trouble making” traveller that hasn’t been a

joker yet.
4. The Time Joker can often say “it’s your birthday”. to someone who made a prank since

the last time the Time Joker said “it’s your birthday”.
5. The Time Joker can’t give bonus to emself.
6. The Time Joker has tripled range when range moving.
7. The Time Joker can’t say anything in comments except “it’s your birth day”, “hahaha”,

“hehehe” and the like until e sais “it’s your birthday” to a prankster atleast once.
8. The Time Joker can not declare victory while in duty.
9. The first Time Joker is the Arbiter, unless more than half of the comments request

“xxx is the joker”, when xxx is a traveller’s name.

 

Comments

epylar:

14-08-2006 01:25:27 UTC

against Ambiguous (for instance, who is the first Time Joker if more than half the comments request a joker? [consider the case where all the requests are for different jokers], and what limits multiple comments with the ‘xxx is the joker’ form?), limits number of weeks the game can be self-consistent unless this is repealed.

REQUEST: aran is the joker.

epylar:

14-08-2006 01:26:20 UTC

REQUEST: Bucky is the joker.
REQUEST: Hix is the joker.
REQUEST: Epylar is the joker.

Kevan: he/him

14-08-2006 01:38:47 UTC

against Other bits of ambiguity: “every new week” can mean anything, and it’s not clear what “tripled range” is supposed to mean, when range is a pair of dates (or two pairs of dates, for someone with a companion).

But I’d vote against it even if it made sense; being able to give out d20 Influence more or less at whim, while having “tripled” range, all sounds far too powerful.

Hix:

14-08-2006 02:45:42 UTC

against A fun idea, but I have some technical suggestions…

* the Proposal should add stuff to the Ruleset, not just declare the Joker’s existance, abilities, etc.
* nobody’s perfect, so explain what happens when a human player fails to do what is required of em (e.g. when the Joker must select a new Joker)
* a good way to regulate the number of comments is to only consider “comments containing counted votes”

...and a game-balancing suggestion…

* DICE20 seems overly powerful

ChronosPhaenon:

14-08-2006 02:46:33 UTC

against

Thelonious:

14-08-2006 08:51:51 UTC

against for the reasons set out above.

Rodney:

14-08-2006 11:07:39 UTC

against Interesting idea, but the wording is off.

Bucky:

14-08-2006 14:51:46 UTC

against because it doesn’t alter the Ruleset.