Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Proposal: Shoe Leather

Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 22 Jan 2019 22:24:50 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Locations”:-

Each Detective has a Location, which may be any of the Possibilities of the Murder’s Location, or the Morgue, or the Archives, or Roaming. A Detective’s Location is tracked in the GNDT, with Roaming optionally being trackable as “-”, and it defaults to Roaming.

A Detective may change their own Location at any time.

Replace “When a Detective finds a Clue, the Chief selects a Possibility at random and privately informs that Detective of that Possibility: if the Possibility is a Quality of the Murder it is described to the Detective as “Proof”, otherwise it is described as “Disproof”.” with:-

A Detective’s Location determines the Scope of Clues they might find:

* If the Detective’s Location is any of the Possibilities of the Murder’s Location, their Scope is that Possibility alone.
* If the Detective is at the Morgue, their Scope is all Possibilities of the Method
* If the Detective is at the Archives, their Scope is all Possibilities of the Motive
* If the Detective is Roaming, their Scope is all Possibilities

When a Detective finds a Clue, the Chief selects a Possibility at random from those in the Scope of that Detective, and privately informs that Detective of that Possibility: if the Possibility is a Quality of the Murder it is described to the Detective as “Proof”, otherwise it is described as “Disproof”.

Adding Locations as a way for players to specify what sort of clue they hope to find next.

Comments

edelopo:

22-01-2019 17:05:17 UTC

imperial
I don’t dislike the idea of locations, but I feel that without a disadvantage attached to not roam, this is just going to make things end faster.

derrick: he/him

22-01-2019 17:26:22 UTC

imperial
Roaming needs a more restricted space. perhaps make it only able to discover disproof?

Though trying to think of ways to fix it gives me some nice ideas. We could try to incorporate “Leads” as well as clues. Hmmm.

Kevan: he/him

22-01-2019 17:50:39 UTC

[edelopo] A disadvantage of specific searches is that everyone else can see what you’re doing, and what you might know. (If you search four rooms and then stop, that’s useful information for everyone else.)

pokes:

22-01-2019 22:17:38 UTC

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