Just noting that this would be a huge hole that would make any “conventional” win of the dynasty almost impossible to guard from ruletext injection scams.

I guess maybe we need to have mutable and immutable tracked variables in addition to mutable and immutable rules.

Why would such a hole not exist for Heist Actions already?

It does to some extent, but it at least slows down the rate at which someone might be able to exploit such an injection scam (especially as with Heist Actions you’d have to somehow make one massive action that accomplished everything you wanted, but with Free Actions you’d be able to make one small action and spam it repeatedly).

Like, say you inject a Heist Action that gives you +1 Triumph; that’s somewhat powerful but unlikely to be an instant win and other players would be able to intervene to stop it, so you’d need to make the action more complex in order to get a massive benefit from it. If you inject a Free Action that gives you +1 Triumph, then depending on how the victory condition ends up working, it might well be an instant win.

I guess I don’t understand why, if I could freely inject anything into a Heist Action to begin with, I wouldn’t just make it “achieve victory” instead of “+1 Triumph.”

It’s to handle situations where you can’t freely inject just anything – some sentences are going to be closer to the existing rule text than others, and the more distant ones are going to take longer to set up.

I’d support the idea of Immutable and Mutable tracked variables, but we’d really need an easy-to-find indication of which those are.  Maybe make all variables Immutable by default and require Mutable ones to be designated as such, or vice-versa.

I think the scenario ais is trying to sketch out is not nearly as concerning as the first comment implied, or at least no more concerning than what the existing rules already allow. I’ve added a clause that includes Free Actions in the Oversight rule, but otherwise I’m going to leave this proposal intact unless someone else has a more concrete example.