Proposal: Off the Books
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST, failed 2 votes to 5 with an IMP DEF. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 09 May 2025 08:51:45 UTC
Add a new rule called “Bets” with the following text:
Each Agent has a Bet which is privately tracked by the Concierge and is either empty (which is the default) or consists of the following:
* Type, which may be Guard or Burglar
* Patsy, which is the name of an Agent other than that AgentAs a Virtual Action, an Agent who is not a Civilian may set their Bet to empty, or may set the Type and Patsy of their Bet, as long as the Patsy’s Bet is either empty or does not have both that Agent as its Patsy and the same Type as that Agent’s Bet.
In the rule “The Break-In”, in the Breaking In atomic action, just before the step “Set Rumors to an empty list” insert the following steps:
* For each non-Civilian Agent that has a non-empty Bet, if that Agent’s Bet Type matches the type of Agent whose Successes were increased in the previous step, increase that Agent’s Successes by 1 and increase the Successes of that Bet’s Patsy by 1, otherwise decrease that Agent’s Successes by 1 and decrease the Successes of that Bet’s Patsy by 1.
* Set each Agent’s Bet to empty
A way to increase Successes by guessing which side is going to win. The Patsy is there to cover up which Agent placed the Bet, and also to ensure that an Agent who places a Bet ropes in someone else to share the success or failure.
ais523: Supervisor
In general, it’s weird to have people betting on the main mechanic of the dynasty when they’re also trying to swing the dynasty over to their own side.
This should at the very minimum only allow players to bet that their own side will win (rather than lose), and have the Patsy be on the opposite side. But I would vote against it even then.