Proposal: Queued Actions
Create a new subrule of “Turns”, called “Queued Actions”, with the following text:
There is a publicly tracked list called the Action Queue. During a Puzzlers Turn, that Puzzler may append to end of the Action Queue a Turn Action or a Collect Match action that they wish to take, along with their name (paying the cost of the action, if any). At any time, any Puzzler may remove the first action from the Action Queue and perform that action on behalf of the Puzzler who added the action to the Action Queue, provided the action would be legal. For the purposes of determining legality, these actions are considered to take place at the time they were added, and considered to be performed by the Puzzler who added them to the Action Queue. If the first action would be illegal, any Puzzler may remove it from the Action Queue (refunding the cost paid, if any).
If the Action Queue is not empty, Puzzlers may not take any Turn Actions or Collect Match actions, except via the Action Queue.
An implementation of JonathanDark’s suggestion (more or less) on Discord for making it easier on players who don’t have time to update the gameboard. In practice, I don’t think we’re going to go more than one turn or so without clearing the Action Queue, since it’ll become hard to visualize what the game board looks like.
JonathanDark: he/him
So, if a Puzzler adds their name to the Action Queue while they have Coins, then they spend those Coins on other Turn Actions, when the next Puzzler carries out the Action Queue, how would this work? The rule says “the action is considered to have taken place at the time it was added” which was when the Puzzler who added it had Coins, but when it’s actually carried out, that Puzzler doesn’t have the Coins.