Friday, April 08, 2011

Proposal: Odd: Smithsonian

Vetoed - coppro

Adminned at 11 Apr 2011 13:53:56 UTC

Add the following as an oddity to Smithsonian station:

Upon arriving at Smithsonian Station, a player may resurrect the skeleton of a dinosaur and ride it, adding the letters DINO to the end of their trail. As long as DINO remains in their trail, that player is not constrained by the requirement that destination stations share lines with origin stations when moving (per the second bullet point in the rule entitled Movement).

DINO will pass out of a player’s trail organically after four moves, so it’s a temporary advantage at best, and it doesn’t actually help a player get out of DC.

This Odd proposal as I’m in Knightsbridge.

posted by Josh at 08 Apr 2011 07:40:55 UTC Comments (12)

Comments

Chivalrybean:

08-04-2011 15:12:19 UTC

for

spikebrennan:

08-04-2011 17:04:28 UTC

for

Subrincinator:

08-04-2011 18:34:55 UTC

for

lilomar:

08-04-2011 19:28:28 UTC

for

Travis:

08-04-2011 19:34:37 UTC

imperial
It sounds like it helps a player get out of DC. Once they aren’t bound by the lines requirement, what rule stops them?

lilomar:

08-04-2011 19:37:25 UTC

Travis: Is that something that needs stopping? We need a way to get back to London.

Josh: Observer he/they

08-04-2011 20:53:54 UTC

@Travis - there’s no mechanism that allows them to get back to London at present, as none of the lines connect to any of the London lines. They could construct a trail, I suppose, but I’m not sure without checking how feasible that is.

Travis:

08-04-2011 22:52:45 UTC

Josh-
It seems there are several mechanisms. They can still hop to London, or use their Photo Album as their daily action, or go off the board somehow and move to London.

Changing vote because I like the rule, but I don’t follow your reasoning.
for

Saakara:

08-04-2011 23:42:58 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

09-04-2011 03:34:05 UTC

imperial

Josh: Observer he/they

09-04-2011 06:21:34 UTC

@Travis - fair point, but DINO doesn’t seem to help with any of those.

ais523:

11-04-2011 20:50:02 UTC

veto