Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Proposal: Paradigm a Dozen

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 07 Oct 2011 02:15:57 UTC

Add a new Rule titled “Movements” as follows:

Each player has a Movement, tracked in the GNDT. A Movement is either a single word ending with “ism” or two words the second of which ends with “ism”.

As a Daily Action an Artist may join a Movement by updating the GNDT field to show their new Movement. If this is the first time that particular Movement has been joined by any Artist then the Artist is said to have Founded the Movement.

Dynastic Rules may contain clauses which pertain only to Artists belonging to particular Movements.

I realise that last clause is technically redundant since this would be possible anyway, but that’s the main intended use of Movements and if I note it only here in the comments then it will be quickly lost, whereas encoding it into the rule serves as a useful reminder.

posted by bateleur at 05 Oct 2011 15:20:56 UTC Comments (6)

Comments

Kevan: he/him

05-10-2011 15:42:58 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

05-10-2011 15:47:12 UTC

Is this sufficiently different from Styles?

lilomar:

05-10-2011 15:57:11 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

05-10-2011 16:03:23 UTC

Although wait, this is problematic for not setting a legal default value, but insisting that every Artist “has a Movement”.

Although “If a game variable has no defined starting value for new Artists [...] then that starting value is [...] blank” from Appendix 3.3.1, “blank” is not a legal Movement.

bateleur:

05-10-2011 16:59:57 UTC

against S/K due to illegal default. Will repropose.

bateleur:

05-10-2011 17:08:37 UTC

@Josh - It’s arguably thematically similar to “Styles”, but in game terms has virtually nothing in common with it!