BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I’m not sure if I can correctly interpret “keeping the traversal around the mansion to the various rooms at approximately the same difficulty”. Are the terms for traversal and difficulty understood well-enough without being more explicit about what this means?

@jon average cell squared distance?

I’m intentionally leaving them without formal definitions in order to allow some leeway since it’s a statement as to what intent you should have rather than a hard rule you need to follow.

My main goal though is to avoid cases where a major disconnected section of the mansion gets glued onto a previously irrelevant room to create an awkward bottleneck when a new connection could just be make between two travel hubs. Conversely, a small cupboard which is hard to reach and becomes disconnected could just be stuck onto a different room which is also hard to reach.

Sure, I can research or create a reasonable formula like that one, but my concern is that there is not such a formula spelled out in this Proposal, which leaves it up to my “whim” as to what it means. If that’s acceptable to everyone else, then that’s fine, but I thought it would be worth pointing out.

@SB: Ok, intent is fine with me. Just thought I should check.

By the way, I’ve just made a tweak so rooms should also stay in the same general region too, just because I remembered that that was one of the main points of contention of the current malfeasance.

from the starting point of “shall we give Katastrophe more power”. I think we should just remove the mechanic.

I haven’t yet seen an argument for why it would be good to give Katastrophe - currently a role which has full discretion over who gets to pick up win-the-game tokens, as well as being able to easily set traps and jump around the map, with no downside to any of this - additional powers on top of that.

It may even be time to give the Katastrophe role some downside or jeopardy?

I don’t think I’ve elaborated on this yet (as, surprisingly, despite all the discussion, no-one has asked), but: the Dark Reordering Malfeasance does actually have a purpose, and wasn’t something I slipped in for japes.

It’s intended as a characterful response to the problem of room proliferation, which seems to be growing; it already feels likely that most players will never be in the same room as another player, and that inhibits several of the mechanics that we have on the books.

It is also intended as a way for Katastrophe to out themselves; my assumption is that this is still a nomic, and that if it becomes obvious who Katastrophe is then they’d likely have the power taken from them one way or another.

I do understand the arguments against the power but feel that they overstate the risk and understate the utility of keeping the power on the books; I don’t object to this as a reasonable modification but think that the flat, immediate repeal shows somewhat of a lack of regard for the intent of the original proposal.

My assumption had honestly just been that it was for getting rid of annoying malfeasances, like if a previous katastrophe sticks a problematic trap in a corridor which can slow down movement back and forth, or if a dangerous malfeasance becomes known to literally everyone to the point that destroying even at the cost of revealing is acceptable.