Thursday, June 14, 2012

Proposal: Lost the rules, kept the theme

Timed out. Passes 7-3.—Clucky

Adminned at 17 Jun 2012 11:57:32 UTC

If the proposal immediately before this one in the queue failed, this proposal does nothing.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset.  Call it “Three Epochs” and give it the following text:

Time Monks may occupy an Era, tracked in the GNDT under the “Era” column.  An Era is one of “Past”, “Present” or “Future” and defaults to Present.

The Eras are ordered; the Past comes before the Present and the Future.  The Present comes before the Future.  New Time Monks start in the Present.

Comments

omd:

15-06-2012 00:00:27 UTC

against

Clucky: he/him

15-06-2012 00:40:08 UTC

for

Cpt_Koen:

15-06-2012 01:07:27 UTC

Technically, if the proposal you are referring to fails, then it won’t be in the queue at the time this proposal is resolved; which means “this proposal does nothing” will not trigger.
(In other words, a proposal is always the first in the queue at the time it is resolved, therefore there are no proposals before it, and using the past tense for “failed” doesn’t change that.)

for

Klisz:

15-06-2012 01:46:57 UTC

for

Soviet Brendon:

15-06-2012 06:09:59 UTC

against

Rodney:

15-06-2012 07:04:03 UTC

After some thought,  for.

While it seems a little anticlimactic to have a tame pseudo-time travel mechanic after the craziness of a real time travel mechanic, I realized there’s actually some potential here. Each Era could have its own rules, which apply to that Era and all the ones after it. Meanwhile, a Era could repeal a past rule in its own time, which ripples into the future. Say, past says A, but rule B in the present makes it situation C in the future.

Akin to M:TG’s Time Spiral block, I’m thinking, the Past could have some mechanism for extracting past rules from past rulesets, the Future has “futureshifted” rules (rules that might theoretically be in a future dynasty) and the Present has no restriction. This is all imagination of course, right now it’s way too late for me to write a proposal.

moonroof:

15-06-2012 07:23:32 UTC

for

quirck: he/him

15-06-2012 07:24:58 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

15-06-2012 08:21:21 UTC

against Am I misunderstanding something? If the previous proposal fails, then we still have all of the Time Monk dynasty-travel rules in place, so don’t need a new time travel mechanic on top of them.

Cpt_Koen:

15-06-2012 14:22:41 UTC

Also “Time Monks may occupy an Era” sound like it’s not mandatory to occupy an Era. Are some Time Monks out of time?

Kevan: he/him

16-06-2012 08:34:32 UTC

for CoV, must have just misread that clause.

Purplebeard:

16-06-2012 09:01:41 UTC

for

scshunt:

16-06-2012 14:53:32 UTC

against