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I like the idea, but how do you want to prevent voting strategically instead of “fair”?

mideg: I was hoping that the requirement to include a reason on Against votes would help with that, but I guess there’s no penalty for just making up an invalid reason.

Would un-“fair” votes be a valid target of a CfJ?

“New Day” is a dynasty-specific term and thus should probably go into the dynastic rules.

I don’t think this rule has any way to prevent strategic voting, though. Note that this rule doesn’t ask Shifters to vote “fair”, it just asks for a reason for saying no. Even if the reason had to be valid, Shifters could always withhold votes if they wanted to, and I can’t imagine any version of a “valid reason” which would keep Shifters from voting AGAINST whenever they wanted to.

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I really like the principle mechanic. If this was not Nomic, but a friendly social gathering, I’d be all for it, but I fear, most Shifters would think of “He’s not me and I don’t want him to win” as a valid reason to vote against something.

Maybe include an incentive to vote fairly? A judge giving out a small penalty whenever the reasoning was not solid, or something? Not sure if that’d work.

No reason why a storytelling Nomic couldn’t work, but it’s hard to fit that kind of thing into a mechanical point-scoring system that generates a single winner, which is what we’re starting from.

Traditionally BlogNomic tends towards mechanical actions which players can write flavour text for, but which attract no punishment if they don’t.

[mideg] A judge approving stories or votes would still have something of a race to the bottom. As soon as a minimum successful effort was established (“I am the Lord and I say hello I am the Lord to my friend the Chaplain, the end”), the players with least time or inclination to write clever prose would just repeat it knowing it would get through.

I agree with mideg and Kevan above.

I wonder if something like this mechanic could be used as a tiebreaker for shifters who simultaneously take the same form, though.