Monday, April 29, 2024

Proposal: No Honour Among Thieves

Reached quorum 6 votes to 1 including an Imperial DEF. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 01 May 2024 09:07:42 UTC

Add a new rule called “Attitudes” with the following text:

Each Thief has an Attitude, privately tracked by the City and defaulting to “One of Us”. An Attitude has a Description that contains the rules the apply to each Thief that has that Attitude. As a Weekly Action, a Thief may change their Attitude by privately communicating to the City their new Attitude.

In the Description, an Attitude may have an Action, which is performed by the City during the Distributing atomic action.

The valid Attitudes are listed in the table below:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Attitude || Description
|-
| One of Us || You cannot achieve victory. Action: This Thief gains 2 Florins.
|-
| Best Mates || Action: This Thief gains 1 Florin for each Thief that does not also have this Attitude.
|-
| Solo Act || Action: Secretly randomly choose another Thief and secretly roll DICE4 - 1, then subtract the result from that Thief's Florins, to a minimum of 0, and add the amount actually subtracted to this Thief's Florins.
|}

In the rule “The Haul”, add the following bullet point just before the last bullet point in the atomic action of Distributing:

* Perform the Action of the Attitude of each Thief, if there are any to perform, doing so by secretly randomly choosing the order of Thieves in which to process each Thief’s Attitude. Any gains or losses are in addition to the previous steps of this instance of this atomic action.

How did no one use this Proposal title yet?

Similar to Clucky’s idea of Plans, except this goes in effect during Distribution, rather than during Burglary. The varied gains in Florins will hopefully encourage Thieves to consider collaborating, but as Thieves they can never really tell who is trustworthy.

I recognize that this is adding Florins out of nowhere in some cases, so it messes with the Florin economy a bit. I’m open to changes along those lines if someone has a more clever way to avoid that.

Comments

Josh: he/they

29-04-2024 13:50:23 UTC

The American spelling has been used before… by you https://blognomic.com/archive/no_honor_among_thieves

JonathanDark: he/him

29-04-2024 14:24:01 UTC

lol. I forgot about that.

What I meant was, I’m surprised it hadn’t been used in this dynasty yet.

Clucky: he/him

29-04-2024 17:44:53 UTC

for

probably needs some tweaks but seems good to build off of

4st:

29-04-2024 18:33:16 UTC

for this will be funky, I think? seems balanced enough.
I am averse to hidden information games, but then again, this whole dynasty is like that, so I might as well lean in.

Kevan: he/him

30-04-2024 08:50:46 UTC

imperial Not sure about Solo Act being random, in a dynasty that’s all about deciding outcomes.

Josh: he/they

30-04-2024 09:13:22 UTC

against

Nad: he/him

30-04-2024 15:41:02 UTC

for we’ll see how this goes. Maybe need to tweak solo to be targeted or florin leader.

Juniper.ohyegods: she/her

01-05-2024 09:00:50 UTC

for