Monday, October 23, 2023

Proposal: Rituals

Fewer than Quorum not voting AGAINST, 1-5 with 2 DEFs. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 24 Oct 2023 23:18:00 UTC

Create a new rule entitled “Rituals” as follows:

Some Dynastic Actions are Ritual Actions, which any given Wizard can perform no more than once in the intervening period of time between the Commencements of two successive Duels.

Thinking about moving things like Style changes into this, and maybe something like adding Gewgaws to a selection pool too. But I’m not sure if I’m missing anything with this wording and would appreciate feedback.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

23-10-2023 04:31:41 UTC

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.

JonathanDark: he/him

23-10-2023 12:57:34 UTC

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

Brendan: he/him

23-10-2023 16:36:42 UTC

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.

Kevan: he/him

23-10-2023 17:25:42 UTC

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!

against

Brendan: he/him

23-10-2023 17:30:42 UTC

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.

Snisbo: she/they

23-10-2023 18:02:09 UTC

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

Raven1207: he/they

24-10-2023 03:40:55 UTC

against

Vovix: he/him

24-10-2023 04:13:10 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

24-10-2023 05:06:27 UTC

imperial

Zack: he/him

24-10-2023 16:49:57 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

24-10-2023 18:51:57 UTC

against