Sunday, December 18, 2022

Proposal: Queuing up Rooms

Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 19 Dec 2022 15:50:01 UTC

If the Proposal “Rumours of Rooms” is not enacted, this Proposal has no effect

In the subrule “Mansion Phase”, after the bullet “Edit the state to Mansion Phase in Banewood Mansion”, add this bullet:

For every named Room in the rules, if no Room exists with that name, the Narrator must add the Room to a Room Queue which is privately tracked by the Narrator, if the Room is not already in the Room Queue. When adding a Room to the Room Queue, the Narrator privately rolls a DICE6 and tracks the result as an integer named Room Priority with the Room in the Room Queue, re-rolling if the result ties with any existing Room Priorities in the Room Queue.

In the Rule “Rooms”, replace the paragraph starting with:

When a Room is added

with the following paragraph:

When a Room is added, the Narrator first subtracts 1 from all of the Room Priorities in the Room Queue. If a Room Priority is 0 after this subtraction, the Narrator must use that Room name and remove it from the Room Queue. Regardless of how the name is chosen, the Narrator may set the values of any of the Room’s qualities as part of adding the Room.

This changes the “Rumor of Rooms” a little, because in that Proposal, there’s a fairly high chance that the Room may still never appear if the dice roll is particularly unlucky. With this Proposal, the Room is inevitable, it’s just a matter of when.

Comments

Darknight: he/him

19-12-2022 05:32:44 UTC

for

quirck: he/him

19-12-2022 07:51:24 UTC

against
Watch out for infinite rerolls, though it most likely won’t happen.
As is stands now, even if the Narrator rolls not 1, he still can use the referred-to name, can’t he?

SingularByte: he/him

19-12-2022 09:05:29 UTC

against
@quirck Yeah, there’s no rules against it.

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2022 09:33:36 UTC

against Per Quirck.

Josh: Observer he/they

19-12-2022 09:46:48 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

19-12-2022 09:55:58 UTC

(Actually not per Quirck, on reflection: I don’t think we should patch this kind of thing by relying on the Narrator fixing it on the fly in a neutral kind of way, as that’s a lot to ask, and easy for them to misjudge. But I think the small chance of something never happening is fine, if it means we can all easily understand what the odds are during the game. Making the system into a queue - where a rule enacting to add more rooms would do complex things to the existing stack - seems a bit too cloudy.)

JonathanDark: he/him

19-12-2022 15:46:41 UTC

against Withdrawn

Per Kevin. If folks are ok with the possibility of a Room referred to in the rules never coming into existence, then that’s fine by me.