as already explained here https://blognomic.com/archive/guilded_age I’d really prefer the cadence of dynastic actions to be “happens on the duel” not “happens during the duel” because the later encourages reactionary gameplay where players need compelled to constantly check in. Like if you turned style selection into something you did during duels, it would be far easier for people who cast their spells late to line up unique/trendy statuses. Its already hard enough getting everyone to take their turns, would be even worse if there start to be advantages to waiting.

So totally down making changing your guild, updating your styles, etc… as all “Ritual Actions” just as long as they are performed by pming the battle master not just by someone making a change.

per Clucky. He’s got a fair bit to track, and I think it makes sense to align actions on an already-established timer.

But this proposal is totally aligned with what Clucky is asking for? I’m happy to take the advice to make rituals a matter of messaging him, and this doesn’t establish any rituals, just the capacity for them.

Style changes are currently more like Spells for allowing players to change their mind as many times as they like before the deadline. One-off Ritual actions that you can’t take back have quite a different mood, and I’m not sure that we really need them for anything yet.

I’m also not convinced that “the intervening period of time between the Commencements of two successive Duels” actually exists while we’re standing in it. We can’t know for sure that there will be another Duel in the future!

You’re flatly wrong there, Kevan! Clucky has so far always scheduled a new duel immediately after resolving the past one. The Commencement is the moment when the Battle Master begins resolving a duel, but it’s pretty safe to assume that a scheduled one is going to take place, because that’s what “scheduled” means.

I’m more in favor of the “message the Battle Master, they resolve it during the next duel” method we’ve been using