Reached quorum 5 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 13 Nov 2023 17:13:29 UTC
In “Personality Traits”, change “each Personality Trait is a number” to “each Personality Trait is a non-negative number”.
Add the following spell to “Spells”:
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=== Meditate ===Cost: 5
Inputs: The name of a personality trait
Effect: The specified personality trait of the wizard casting the spell is reduced by 1.
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@Zack: just FYI, within the last 6 months or so, the definition of “a number” was tightened up so that the current ruleset reads:
If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers
So the change to explicitly say non-negative was not strictly necessary.
[JonathanDark] Having numeric values default to being non-negative integers has been in the ruleset since at least 2005.
I don’t think we ever actually fixed the problem that if someone writes “score is an integer”, a mathematician will understand that score can be negative (since a set is defined), and a non-mathematician may not (if they think of a set specification as being something more literal, like “score may be 0, 1, 2 or 3”).
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