“the attempt success” is slightly off.

How does the Heir performing the action of Nominating a Successor work when the atomic action steps refer to the Heir performing the action? In the Assassination case, you would want the steps to refer to the Heir who was assassinated, not the one performing the steps.

It would probably be simplest to rewrite this as “If the attempt succeeds, the Heir who was assassinated” so that the Heir performing the atomic action matches with the steps of the action.

I think “on behalf of” is doing enough work there that the shifting subject isn’t a problem. The Assassin does the atomic action on behalf of the target Heir, which means they do each step on behalf of the named Heir, which means each step that refers to the Heir as the actor is being done on their behalf - I think it follows through clearly enough.

Are you saying that by interpreting words according to their plain English definitions you can extrapolate meaning that is not explicitly spelled out? :P

No, and also it’s going to be a long dynasty if everyone wants to have a funny ‘gotcha’ moment, thanks

Yeah there are no choices that you need to make for succession, so anyone can do it for you. But making the assassinated heir do the action opens up some timing questions as to when it happens.

We’ve had enough debates of “plain English” reading of the rules that it was worth bringing up, in my opinion. If the consensus is that it’s fine, that’s good enough for me.

Not a fan of the dice. Tolerable early game, but much less interesting if it comes down to rolling one final die at the end to see who wins and loses the whole dynasty. And knocking people out of multiple Claims does have a very endgame mood to it.

I also don’t like the randomness of dice rolling. The idea is nice though and I had been preparing a similar mechanic too

per Kevan

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