Proposal: No more improvised burglaries
Timed out 2 votes to 3 with an unresolved Imperial DEF. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 01 May 2024 07:49:23 UTC
Add a new rule entitled “The Scheme”, with the following text:
Each Thief has a Role which is publicly tracked and defaults to none. The possible Roles are:
{| class="wikitable"
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! Role !! Effect
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| Leader || -
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| Picking locks || -
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| Lookout || -
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| Carrying the Haul || -
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|}
In “The Haul”, add the following as the second-to-last step of Burglary:
Create the new Scheme by selecting the Leadership Role and two other random distinct Roles and adding them to the Scheme
In “Distribution”, add the following as the second-to-last step of the Distribution atomic action:
Set the Role of each Thief mentioned in this common Proposition in the manner specified in; set the Roles of the Thieves who are not mentioned to none;
Throughout the rule “The Haul” and its subrules but excluding the description of the Distribution action, replace all instances of “the contents of the Haul” with
the contents of the Haul and the Roles of the Scheme
In “Distribution”, replace “Such responses must unambiguously identify where every element of the Haul’s contents would go.” with
Such responses must unambiguously identify where every element of the Haul’s contents would go and to whom each of the Scheme’s Roles should be assigned.
Effects are intentionally left blank for now, but things I had in mind include interaction with Possessions (e.g. lockpick) and perhaps a possibility to implement the defection system outside the Haul
Not sure what exactly this means, sounds like more work, but otherwise, it sounds like we could eventually hide who is working together. And teamwork/camaraderie is good, no matter how it works out. As long as we are proactively including new players in schemes it should be great
Kevan: Concierge he/him
This is a good layer to add, but the narrative angle feels a little askew if we’re saying that the Thieves will always know in advance what the outcome of their Burglary is going to be, at the point when they’re assigning the roles.
It works okay for small-time stuff (“we can see 10 Florins and a Gold Ring through this window, let’s take it!”), but I suspect the kind of complexity that we’d want to add to the Burglaries (that eg. whoever is Carrying the Haul runs the risk of being caught with it) wouldn’t want a predetermined outcome like that.