Son of a gun!  That should obviously read “may perform,” not “make perform.”  If this seems like a good call to you folks, I’ll propose the correction.

And the phrase before the blockquote should say “with the following” rather than “to the following”.  But since that isn’t text that will be added to the ruleset and the meaning is still clear, maybe it doesn’t have to be corrected?  I don’t know what the standard is for those kinds of things.

(I swear, proofreading and QA is part of my real-life job!  I guess that means I’ve got no typographical skills left for games…)

“Bakers may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Proposals at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”.”

On a given day, if a Baker chooses not to take any of the above upgrade actions, they make perform exactly one of the following instead:

* Reduce their Hits value by one if it is greater than zero
* Gain one Empty Pie

Why not simpler?

And can I read “reduce by one, to a minimum of zero” as keep reducing by one, until the minimum is reached?

1.1 Ruleset and Gamestate:
Bakers may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Proposals at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular “they”.

However, it did cost me two upgrades to throw a pie in your face, so I would be pretty disappointed if you could wash it away that easily.

Ah, my wording would destroy autopiemaking. Still sleeping :)

I agree with Cpt_Koen, washing away in one turn seems too quick.

Or like, add a towel pie. But I agree it shouldn’t be quite that easy to remove hits.

Given that Cream Pies, and perhaps someday other damaging actions, look to become quite a bit easier to procure sooner or later (if not with the Creamatorium then certainly with something else someday), maybe one wipe-off per turn isn’t so bad.

Plus, if you get hit with 7 pies, it would still take a full week of actions to wipe it all away, during which you are not gaining any other pies or upgrades, or doing anything else fun.  That seems like a pretty big sacrifice to me.

Well, I guess I’ll be against defence mechanism as long as we don’t know what’s the result of being hit by a Cream Pie!

explicit

it takes a least two steps to hit someone, so why should it take one to wipe it off?

Mostly because the one step you’d take to wipe it off also carries an opportunity cost that you’re not doing anything ELSE on that day.

But it does seem like I’m just in a different place on this than my fellow Bakers.