Proposal: Moving Along by Playing Around
Reached quorum, 5-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 09 Dec 2024 02:27:24 UTC
If there is no Ongoing Race, and this text is not contained in a subrule under “Rule Amendments”, perform the Update Rules action once for each subrule under “Rule Amendments”.
In the rule “Races”, replace “If the Position of a Snail is after the Finish Line, they cannot Move” with “If the Position of a Snail is after the Finish Line, they may not Play, and their Position cannot be changed while a Race is Ongoing except when Preparations is performed”.
In every dynastic rule except for “Slugs” and “Items”, replace every instance of “Moves” with “Plays” and every instance of “Move” with “Play”.
Rename the rule “Moving” to “Plays”.
In the rule “Slugs”, replace every instance of “cannot move by normal means” with “cannot perform a Play action or have a Play action performed on their behalf”.
In the same rule, replace the text of the Movement Rules for Slug of Death with the following:
If there is an Ongoing Race, and it has been at least 24 hours since the Slug of Death last Crawled, and it has been least 24 hours since that Race began, any Active Player make a comment in that race saying “The Slug of Death Crawls” and cause the Slug of Death to perform the Crawl Play for that race. The Slug of Death cannot move as a result of any Play other than its Crawling.
In the same rule, replace the text “Other Snails may not move” with “Other Snails may not Play”.
In the same rule, replace the text of the Movement Rules for Identity Crisis Ian with the following:
If it has been longer than 24 hours since he has last Slipstreamed or he has not Slipstreamed this Race, then any Snail may cause Identity Crisis Ian to perform the Slipstream Play.
In the same rule, replace every instance of “Moves” with “Plays” and every instance of “Move” with “Play” in the Extra Effects for Broom Barry, in the Movement Rules for Friendly Fiona, and in the Extra Effects for The Iron Slug.
In the rule “Items”, replace “the only Move you may make” with “the only Play you may make”.
This is a lot.
Before I started this Proposal, I copied the dynastic ruleset into a document and applied all of the subrules under Rule Amendments, in order, then wrote this Proposal. If this Proposal is enacted, it will correctly modify the text after those changes are made. Hence, comparing the changes in this Proposal to the way the ruleset is now, vs what it will look like after those modifications, could make reviewing this Proposal a little tricky.
I was also careful with replacing “Move” with different words and either changing “move” to “Play” or leaving “move” alone in the places where it mattered.
Desertfrog: Jury