Friday, September 25, 2020

Proposal: Mana and Life

Timed out and enacted, 6-0. Josh

Adminned at 27 Sep 2020 20:24:33 UTC

Create A rule named “DELAY: Dice Update”

When instructed to an Island must carry out the following changes to the ruleset, in full and in order.

replace all White dice in the great sea wiki page and the default white dice in the ruleset with:
White: {nest, graze, browse, beach, hunt, Choose a face of this die and apply its effect}

Delete this rule and “* carry out the instructions in rule “Dice Update”

Add to the generate time atomic action:

* carry out the instructions in rule “Dice Update”

Add to the rule “Ecology”:

when an island nests, it increases its mana by its Flyer Habitability
when an island grazes, it increases its mana by its Runner Habitability
when an island browses, it increases its mana by its Climber Habitability
when an island beaches, it increases its mana by its Swimmer Habitability
when an island hunts, it increases its mana by its Predator Habitability

 

This increases the amount of mana running around and allows manipulating it, but only by manipulating your island.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

25-09-2020 16:00:48 UTC

After the first time, the person generating time is going to be required to ‘carry out the instructions in rule “Dice Update”’ every time even though that rule will no longer exist.

You’re missing ‘mana’ from Climber Habitability Mana.

What do all of these manas do, and how do they interact with the existing mana regime in Adjustments?

derrick: he/him

25-09-2020 16:17:16 UTC

Fixed the first two.

They interact primarily with adjustments? They’re no longer basic effects, which makes it harder to manipulate them for a runaway effect. They also provide mana to the island so that they can take the adjustments actions.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-09-2020 16:26:44 UTC

Oh, so all of these are “Manas”, and spending Swimmer Habitability Mana counts as spending 1 Mana?

If so then I’d suggest adding numerics (“1 Swimmer Habitability Mana”) and being prescriptive about how these different manas are tracked. At the moment it feels like you either have Swimmer Habiliability Mana or you don’t, and you can’t have two of them, which might be deliberate but seems obtuse.

derrick: he/him

25-09-2020 16:33:51 UTC

The Habitability’s are meant to be the numbers… I made it both wordy and more clear. I was hoping to keep the word count down but apparently lost clarity in doing so. 

I’m not sure if I also need to specify that we use the number of the island rolling the effect and add to their mana as well.

Josh: Observer he/they

25-09-2020 16:36:18 UTC

Aaaaah

Right, gotcha

Interesting, this is going to result in a lot more mana floating around, but I was thinking about inflating mana anyway…

derrick: he/him

25-09-2020 16:39:50 UTC

moved all of the text into keywords in ecology. That’s got to be the sanest way to handle this.

Raven1207: he/they

25-09-2020 16:50:52 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

25-09-2020 17:57:21 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

25-09-2020 17:58:02 UTC

for

Bais:

26-09-2020 06:45:52 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

26-09-2020 09:17:57 UTC

imperial