Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Proposal: Life Happens

Add a new rule named “Life Events” with the following text:

Life Events are listed below, where each is named and has the described effect when it is applied to a Seeker:

;RIF: That Seeker must remove a Job from each of their Vocations that contains a Job. If they removed a Job due to this action, they may optionally pick a Hobby that they have never had in any Vocation during this dynasty and add it to an empty Vocation.
;Obsolete: That Seeker must remove a Hobby of their choice, if they have one, from one of their Vocations. If they do so, they may optionally pick a Hobby that they have never had in any Vocation during this dynasty and add it to an empty Vocation.
;Emergency: That Seeker loses 10% of each Resource they have the most of at the time this was applied.

In the rule “Vocations by Life Stage”, replace “they may once carry out the Get A Job Action” with “they may carry out the Get A Job Action if they currently do not have a Job Vocation” and after the text “the Hobby being replaced is also Correlated” add the text “, and provided that they have never had that Job in any Vocation during this dynasty”.

A way to introduce changes to a Seeker’s Life. I’m putting how this happens in my next Proposal, just in case people like this idea but don’t like my next Proposal on how to do it.

posted by JonathanDark at 11 Mar 2025 17:45:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Josh: he/they

11-03-2025 22:36:08 UTC

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ais523: Custodian

11-03-2025 23:05:31 UTC

This is surprisingly awkward because it a) allows Seekers to make a choice when a Life Event occurs, but b) the Events are caused by the actions of other Seekers. I’m not sure whether it’s possible to resolve an atomic action which requires someone else to make a choice. (Sorry for missing this issue earlier.)

JonathanDark: he/him

11-03-2025 23:59:35 UTC

Ah, I see what you mean. It probably should have read “A Job is removed from each of that Seeker’s Vocations that contain a Job” and maybe the Hobby to be removed should be selected at random. Then, the choice to replace happens outside the Life Event, like “if a Seeker loses a Job or a Hobby due to a Life Event, they may set their empty Vocation to a Hobby of their choice…”

Ah well. Fix and patch later? Even if Misfortunes are enacted, they won’t go into effect for another week, so we have time.

Habanero:

12-03-2025 00:03:52 UTC

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ais523: Custodian

12-03-2025 01:50:31 UTC

for I’m OK with a pass-and-fix here.

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