BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Per Kevan elsewhere, I think that this ups the power of the Katastrophe role significantly, as you now get to keep a lingering cloud of power after losing the role that massively differentiates you from those players who have never had it.

I believe that Katastrophe learning quite a lot is one thing - the crux might be that Katastrophe isn’t being round possessed a bit. Also I’m thinking is it possible to CfJ/Propose some rule that makes the argument point moot and stop this Josh - Kevan fuse.

What cloud of power do you retain? I don’t believe I’ve given any upside to the Domain that ex-Katastrophes don’t already have in the current version of the rules.

The domain of an ex-Katastophe is a downside as not only do you lose the exclusivity of knowledge you’ve built up for yourself (other than a handful of scraps), but you also don’t get the chance to get told Malfeasances out of the blue.

The domain on a Katastrophe is also a downside as they can no longer flood the map with malfeasances on the off chance that they would come in use. They also have to give up further secrets whenever they want to use an old Malfeasance that they didn’t think they would need, and need to decide it in advance rather than only the fly.

As soon as this proposal enacts, the second paragraph comes into effect immediately, so the Narrator should then tell about almost all Malfeasances on the map. I’d expect this to trigger on, say, possessed explorer querying the Narrator about a Malfeasance in their Room.

The last paragraph allows the possessed explorer to use only malfeasances in the rooms that are in their domain, or only malfeasances with the same name as ones in the rooms that are in their domain?

The last paragraph was intended to be only the specific rooms, but it definitely is ambiguous.

The instantaneous spreading of info is intentional, but I’d imagine that would only give something like 1 malfeasance per person so it’s not like anyone would get an information overload. Any slower than that and you have only a handful of people who randomly get info while most people get nothing.

I’m not sure how the possessed explorer checking for malfeasances would be a decent trigger? If I was the Katastrophe in that scenario, I’d probably just stick to making new rooms with new malfeasances rather than checking out any previous possessed explorer’s work.

On average, yes, 1 malfeasance per person, but random selection, however weighted, could result in a handful of people learning several malfeasances, while others would still have to search the cat.

Then the Katastrophe would accumulate information less quickly. Maybe that could be not the only trigger, I don’t insist :)