Is this considering the proposed Health reductions from Assaulting and Provoking the Guardian (if they enact, which they might not) to be attacks in both directions? I’m not sure I see any other game action that could be defined as attacking.

yup

might want to add a line that says “any action that deals damage can be referred to as attacking”. since we haven’t defined what “dealing damage” means

You might want to clarify that the gems can be used and that’s when the effect kicks in. By my current reading, they aren’t used so they simply function passively. Or is that intended?

[Lendunistus] Yes, none of ruleset or pending proposals refer to “damage” either, just reducing Health.

[SingularByte] added “When an item is used, its effect is applied”. I don’t think they function passively since there’s nothing in the proposal that applies an effect other than using it. might be worth it to add a line saying “An Item’s effect can only be applied by using it unless otherwise specified by the Item’s effect or the ruleset”

[Kevan] I think we should define “attacking” and “dealing damage” when we start allowing attacking the guardian and/or other NPCs. my intention is to put NPCs in locations and make it so you can attack them to gain currency and/or items

It still has the issue that you can’t actually use the gems. It says you can use them as specified by the ruleset or item effect, but doesn’t actually then specify in the ruleset when you can use them.

[SingularByte] that’s intentional, I want to make (optionally) using an item part of the attacking action. if we want to make items that can be used at any time, we can simply put a line in the item effect that says just that

Ah, got you.

Should the list be numbered? Then we can generate items by rolling a die.

Also “When an Item is used, its effect is applied and it disappears from the Inventory of the Demiurge that used it, unless otherwise specified by the ruleset or the Item’s effect.” Doesn’t need to be stated here. It can rather be handled by having another ‘Type’ of Item, like Persistent (does not disappear on use) or Instant (disappears on use)

The rules actually let you select items from a list at random even without explicit numbering. A rule could say “the Demiurge receives a randomly selected Buff item from the rule Items”, and the person performing the action would be obligated to use a reasonable dice roll in the Dice Roller to figure it out. (Rule: Random Generators)