Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Proposal: Scorecard [Special Case]

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Mar 2021 09:32:54 UTC

If either Proposal: Deck Builder or Proposal: A Minute to Learn, A Lifetime to Master were not enacted, or if Proposal: Polizia di carte was enacted, this proposal does nothing.

In the rule Dynastic Tracking, change “Chamber of the Great Council” to “The Card Table”, which should link to this wiki page.

Add the following to the end of the rule called The Deck:

Each card has a heft. All cards with numbered values have a heft equal to their number value; an Ace has a heft of one, a Knave has a heft of 11, a Knight has a heft of 12, a Queen has a heft of 13 and a King has a heft of 14. All other cards have a heft of zero.

Change the last two paragraphs of the rule called The Game to read as follows:

Beginning with the Starting Player, Players of the Game take turns to make a Play, being a comment to the Game’s Table that names exactly one Card. The card thus named is moved into the rightmost position in their Winnow. After each Play, a Player may score their Winnow based on the instructions in the subrule to this rule, adding that that the scores from previous Plays in that Game to maintain a roling score for that Game.

When each Player of a Game has made seven Plays in that Game, that Game ends. Each Player has a number of pegs, which is publicly tracked and which defaults to zero; when a game ends, the player with the highest score for that game gains one peg..

Add a subrule to that rule, called Tricks:

Each player has a Winnow, which is publicly tracked and defaults to blank. The rightmost three cards in a Player’s Winnow (or all cards in a Player’s Winnow, if there are three or fewer) are referred to as that Player’s Pocket.

When a Player scores their Winnow they are looking for the following patterns of cards (or “Tricks”) in their Pocket. For each Trick in their Pocket they score the indicated points.

* Il Toro: A run of three cards whose Heft adds up to 27. Points: 2
* Il Propore: A run of three cards with the same Suits. Points: 1
* L’Aria: The sum of the Hefts of the cards your Pocket is higher than the sum of the Hefts in your opponent’s Pocket. Points: 1

Comments

Raven1207: he/they

16-03-2021 14:42:03 UTC

This works until you think about the Trump Suit

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2021 14:46:45 UTC

Let’s be a little more careful with the word “wins”, here.

pokes:

16-03-2021 14:47:12 UTC

Minor nit: Knights don’t have a heft here

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2021 14:50:16 UTC

Thanks; all three issues amended.

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2021 15:07:07 UTC

This also makes no attempt to verify that the cards played were in the players’ hands, but I guess that can wait if pegs don’t do anything yet.

Not sure I see the need to track cards in a wiki page (making the card game much more laborious to play on mobile), when you can always plainly see the last three cards that someone played by looking at the comments.

Josh: Observer he/they

16-03-2021 15:27:22 UTC

Sure, I’m up for streamlining.

(One of the reasons why I’m keen for this proposal to pass, incidentally: by keeping Dynastic Tracking on but not changing it, technically we’ve created a situation where we should be blanking the Chamber of the Great Council page, as it’s tracking a bunch of stuff that’s not gamestate.)

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2021 15:29:40 UTC

Technically I think the Chamber page is safe: right now it’s a wiki page that’s not required to track anything, and the numbers and words there are just non-illegal decoration. Apologies for failing to move or deactivate it upon Ascension, though, entirely forgot we’d added it as a thing.

Lulu: she/her

16-03-2021 15:56:30 UTC

This sounds like Winnows carry over different games, and that’s probably not intended.

Zack: he/him

16-03-2021 16:27:05 UTC

So cards have a heft of 2, 3, 4, 5? Also, each card already has a rank; is heft meant to replace that?

Zack: he/him

16-03-2021 16:28:16 UTC

So no* cards

Zack: he/him

16-03-2021 16:40:02 UTC

Also, the Starting player has a guaranteed 1 point advantage because the first card they play will give them a L’Aria (unless it’s a Trump card).

Lulu: she/her

16-03-2021 16:50:48 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

16-03-2021 17:11:27 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

16-03-2021 17:26:07 UTC

imperial

Brendan: he/him

16-03-2021 17:43:19 UTC

for But Zack is right, L’Aria should be fixed.

Darknight: he/him

16-03-2021 19:23:08 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

16-03-2021 20:12:20 UTC

L’Aria is actually doubly broken, as “your opponent” is not well defined.

Clucky: he/him

16-03-2021 20:12:45 UTC

but for