Friday, October 20, 2023

Proposal: More Random Fixes

Timed Out. Passes 5-2—Clucky

Adminned at 23 Oct 2023 04:21:15 UTC

If Spells have a Speed make the following three changes

1) Set the Speed of Snipe to be 100

2) Remove “However, if another Wizard were to cast Snipe and successfully named the Wizard that casted Magic Armor, the spell is considered casted for the condition in the first sentence of this effect but the Wizard who casted Magic Armor will not gain the effects of the Magic Armor.” from Magical Armor.

3) Set the speed of Synergy to be 2. Change its effect to be

If this Wizard is in the targeted position of one or more Spells with speed less than this one, secretly randomly select one of those Spells, or select that Spell if it is just one Spell. After the Effects of the selected Spell are applied to this Wizard, apply the same Effects to the Wizard who cast the selected Spell. If this Effect triggers due to Misdirection, the Spell whose target changed is the Spell that this Effect applies to.

Also make the following changes

In “Duels” replace

The Battle Master is permitted to publicly announce how many Wizards are yet to select a spell for a given duel.

with

The Battle Master is permitted to publicly announce which Wizards are yet to select a spell for a given duel, but may not reveal any details about what spells Wizards have selected for casting other than to the Wizard who made the selection.

In “Creating A Duel” replace

Secretly randomly roll DICE6. On a 4 or 5, secretly randomly select 1 Gewgaw to affect this Duel. On a 6, secretly randomly select 2 Gewgaws to affect this Duel, rerolling duplicates, or if there are only 2 Gewgaws to select from, select both.

with

Randomly roll DICE6. On a 2, 3, 4 or 5, randomly select 1 Gewgaw to affect this Duel. On a 6, randomly select 2 different Gewgaw to affect this Duel, rerolling duplicates, or if there are only 2 Gewgaws to select from, select both.

also replace

and (if one is selected) the Gewgaw

with

and (if any are selected) the Gewgaw

Replace “Gewgaws” with “Gewgaw” throughout the ruleset.

Making some tweaks to speed. Making it so that I can name and shame, while also making it clear that I can’t reveal secrets. Fixing the gewgaw creation rules to give us more duels gewgaw and remove the secret part as its not really needed. And then lastly just make the plural of “Gewgaw” “Gewgaw” so there are a few places like “Apply the effects of the Duel’s selected Gewgaw, if any, that occur before spells are cast” that technically still currently imply there can only be one such Gewgaw.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

21-10-2023 11:55:24 UTC

“And then lastly just make the plural of “Gewgaw” “Gewgaw”...”

Is this being done implicitly (that by dropping all the Ss we’re meant to read that as meaning that the plural has no S, rather than it being a fixable typo), or did you forget to include a clause to do that bit?

Clucky: he/him

21-10-2023 15:57:28 UTC

> Replace “Gewgaws” with “Gewgaw” throughout the ruleset.

JonathanDark: he/him

21-10-2023 20:26:08 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

21-10-2023 21:57:25 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

22-10-2023 06:00:40 UTC

against I’m sorry, I can’t deal with that pluralization. I do appreciate the deletion of the part of Magic Armor that I can’t follow, though.

Clucky: he/him

22-10-2023 06:53:14 UTC

I see no reason why the plural of “Gewgaw” needs to be “Gewgaws”.

The currently phrasing of “Apply the effects of the Duel’s selected Gewgaw, if any, that occur before spells are cast” definitely parses as if “Gewgaw” is a plural word, as the “if any” implies there can be more than one. Otherwise it would be phrased “if there is one”

But then elsewhere “Gewgaws” as a plural is used

And as “Gewgaw” is a made up word, there isn’t really anything that helps us know which is the typo and which is the correct spelling.

Kevan: he/him

22-10-2023 09:55:44 UTC

Zack: he/him

22-10-2023 15:49:24 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

22-10-2023 16:00:04 UTC

I feel like this is a baby-bathwater situation. The objections to the removal of pluralization of Gewgaws by Brendan and Kevan feel like obfuscation in the face of all the other changes in this Proposal.

What is it that you two are really objecting to? I don’t actually expect an answer, but I’m looking closely as to what your real reasons are. I’m assuming that there’s something favorable to either of your long-term strategies that’s being removed here.

Clucky: he/him

22-10-2023 17:47:07 UTC

If people really feel that “Gewgaws” is the proper plural of “Gewgaw” I suppose they can just correct the typos. But as pointed out it wasn’t consistently handled before

Vovix: he/him

22-10-2023 19:25:58 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

23-10-2023 03:51:59 UTC

Incredibly flattering to be perceived as having a long-term strategy.