Vetoed by the Monarchple. Adminned by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 06 Feb 2025 18:49:44 UTC
Add a new role to the list of roles in the rule The Crew {M}:
Grifter is a Role. As a Weekly Heist Action, a Grifter may add a suffix or prefix to a word in the ruleset, so long as the resulting word is not Gibberish.
An alternative would be to make an explicit list of allowed suffixes and prefixes. Not sure if that’s desired.
I think this would give anyone assigned the role—most likely at random—a huge acceleration toward victory.
It’s a shame Josh didn’t get a chance to alter it. There was potential, but it’s too powerful as-is.
I’m not sure I see the power. It’s a weekly action - it would be so hard to get it to a position where it can only help the user enough to effect a win.
Well, it can make itself a nonweekly action trivially – that’s an example of the sort of power it has.
What would nonweekly even mean? In this context, probably that you couldn’t carry it our during a week - I think that would break it rather than unleasing it.
@Josh: At BlogNomic, a “weekly action” is defined as an action that is limited to one use per week – thus by analogy, a “nonweekly action” is one that isn’t limited to one use per week.
Compare “nondynastic”, which means “not dynastic”, not “cannot be done during a dynasty” or “is not associated with a dynasty”. This matters for the Dynastic Safeguard rule, which is not a dynastic rule but which is specific to this dynasty; it safeguards “non-dynastic rules”, a restriction which to me clearly includes itself.
(Even if you don’t agree with this argument, though, essentially the same break is possible by changing the word to “semiweekly”, which is unambiguous.)
I don’t buy that argument, and I don’t really mind semiweekly either.
I think that this rule is much easier to break than it is to superpower, and any attempt to superpower it still has to deal with the Heist Actions limitation, so if someone was pinning their entire run on it then it would get broken well before it paid off.
Despite the power, I was nonetheless considering enacting this, but it doesn’t make sense to enact it now that the dynasty has ended.
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ais523:
This is extremely powerful (especially given that “non” is a prefix that can be applied to almost any word). I’m not sure if that’s enough to vote against, but it is probably enough to give a weekly restriction.