BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

If this and Kiss My Gaster both pass, won’t there be two rules entitled Food with the exact same text?

Um, I think it replaces it completely and gives it that text…
Instead isn’t defined in the glossary and the dictionary definition might be N/A.

I don’t think it does replace it. This proposal creates a rule entitled “food” either way, but replicates the Gaster text if Gaster passes.

I’m still going to go but the redundant version should probably be removed.

Oops. I read the gasket rule as only modifying Food, not adding it in the failure case.

Either way we can interpret “instead” to encompase the create clause as well. =)

“instead give it the text” means that it’s fairly unambiguous, I suspect, but having two versions probably isn’t the worst thing that could happen.

Aside: I’m also not too hot on the wording “The current Sandbox Master loses the title of Sandbox Master and new dynasty continues until a new Sandbox Master is appointed” - is losing the title the same as losing the position? And is an Emperor ever “appointed”? But I think these can be fixed nearer the time.

For the double rule and the metadynasty clause (which is a bit vague, has an effect which outlives its own rule being repealed, and seems like a temptingly big and red “if you aren’t likely to win the dynasty but have the power to end it, you may as well end it” button).

per Kevan

Kevan—the goal of the dynasty is to make people work together towards a common goal. It isn’t supposed to be “If you aren’t gonna win try and stop someone else from winning”

I’d rather we flesh out some game mechanics before we add a win condition (or in this case, lose condition).

[Clucky] If you include a mechanic that suddenly ends the game, then players can choose to adopt “end the game” as their goal (or, at least, as their backup strategy). Carrots are better than sticks if you want people to work together.

because of the poorly-worded metadynasty clause (it reads to me that the Sixth Metadynasty would be just an extension of the Fourth Dynasty of Clucky from a glance).

Clucky: True, but people will try to play that way anyway. Only one person can win, after all.

so I don’t have to count the vote total