You already know I’m totally into this idea. The Dynasty name could be really unwieldy though. What about Dynasty of [Creature]?

I think the phrase you want is “the Statolith shall select a random Organ of that Creature; the chosen Organ has achieved victory.”  Also, I hope you realize that by pitting Creatures against each other you make these voting blocs you’re so worked up about like 1000% more likely to actually occur.

I’m worried about hopelessness, which stagnant voting blocs would create. If you’re outside of the bloc, you’re super fucked.

However, with the nymph rule, you can unfuck yourself. So there’s hope, so it’s fun, so I agree to it.

I mean, if they really don’t want you to join them, all they have to do is not welcome you and that’s that.

But eh, people would probably still play fair.

Yep. Or the other way around. The rouges can scam or something to become stupidly rich to use as incentive to make others join THEM.

Either way, it allows for more dynamic play and less curbstomping.

An unlimited supply of well water wasn’t rich as the water was not very, ahem, liquid.

“May do X” doesn’t mean “may choose whether or not you are able to do X”, it means “may only X” or “may do X only up to the point specified”.  This is one of Grice’s Maxims (https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html), specifically the maxim of quantity.  It’s the same reason that you don’t say “I have $5” when you actually have $20, even though that would technically be correct, the same way “you may carry three remedies” is technically correct if you may carry 20 remedies.  I think it is reasonable to assume that Grice’s Maxims apply to the ruleset, since they are standard in English.  If you don’t think they do right now, we can make it a rule, if you want.

True, but if I had been more experienced/smarter/inspired, I would’ve made well water (or just “lots of remedies” or something) have some purpose or advantage before I loaded myself with a bunch of fool’s gold.

I’m not familiar with Grice’s Maxims unfortunately but if they’re described explicitly then I’ll have no problem with voting for it.

Choosing a random victor from a (potentially very large) group of players doesn’t seem very interesting. At least make them choose one.

Also, regulating “the next Dynasty’s name” doesn’t do anything, as this rule will either be repealed or be referring to the dynasty-after-that, by the time we get to the next dynasty.

S/K

Not going to turn around.