BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Replace the rule Items with the following:

Items
An item in an auction must have exactly the following 8 properties:
Name, Type, Impact A, Impact B, Style, Age, Explicitness, Topic.

Create an item for auction by carrying out the following Atomic Action:
• Give the item a name.
• Randomly choose one Impact A: +2 Power, +2 Prestige, -X debt, -2 Power, -2 Prestige to a minimum of zero
• Randomly choose one Impact B: +1 Power, +1 Prestige, -1 Power, -1 Prestige to a minimum of zero
• If -X debt is chosen for Impact A, secretly randomly choose a value for X: a number between zero and the median average Debt of all Noblemen
• Randomly choose one Type: Art, Furniture, Food, or Romantic Gifts
• Randomly choose one Style: Mannerist, Renaissance, Byzantine, Islamic, Far Eastern
• Randomly choose one Age: a number between 1 and 2000
• Randomly choose one Explicitness: Romantic, Lewd, Bawdy, Obscene.
• Randomly choose one Topic: Fruit, Meat, Candies, Wine
• Put the item up for auction via a story post.
If an item’s Impact B is either “-1 Power” or “-1 Prestige to a minimum of zero”, that item is Undesirable. If an item’s impact A is either “-2 Power” or ”-2 Prestige to a minimum of zero”, that item is Undesirable. Otherwise, it is Desirable.
Upon winning the item in an auction, Impact A and Impact B are applied to the winner.
Upon successful sale of an item at auction, the Nobleman who created the item is given +1 Power and +1 Prestige.

Replace the rule Ribbons with the following:

Ribbons
There exist five Ribbons, which are (along with their Requirements):
• Ribbon of Letters: Own an Estate with Furniture with Age between 0 and 100 years old, 100 and 1000 years old, and 1000 and 2000 years old
• Ribbon of the Sword: Own an Estate with Romantic Gifts of every available Explicitness
• Ribbon of the Bell: Own an Estate with Food of every available Topic
• Ribbon of the Robe: Own an Estate with Art from every available Style
• Ribbon of the Chancery: Have both the highest Prestige and the highest Power.
Each Ribbon may be held by no more than one Nobleman. By default, no Noblemen hold any Ribbons. Ribbons are tracked on the Noblemen wikipage. If all Ribbons are held, and one Nobleman has the most Ribbons, they are the Duchess of Ribbons. If a Nobleman is the only Nobleman to meet the Requirement of a Ribbon, they may (after removing it from any Nobleman who already holds it) hold that Ribbon.
When a nobleman goes idle, they cease to hold any Ribbons they were holding.

You can see the ribbon rule has barely changed. “Ingredient” was changed to “Topic” and “Champion” was changed to “Duchess of Ribbons”. The term “Champion” is too confusing with the term “Victor”, the winner of the game. I also changed “possible” to “available”, making no real difference other than standardization of language.

What happens to the old items?

Louis XIV shall use common sense to convert currently owned items from old style to new style while bearing in mind the spirit of this proposal is to reward those adventurous early adopters.
In areas where there is no common-sense conversion, Louis XIV must roll for new values as shown in the above rule.
To compensate for any perceived value lost during item conversion, the effected players (as determined by Louis XIV) shall receive a one-time debt relief equal to 10% of their current debt.
All currently open auctions will be closed with no winner.

If proposal “Cordon Rouge” is voted into law, the phrase:

• If -X debt is chosen for Impact A, secretly randomly choose a value for X: a number between zero and the median average Debt of all Noblemen

Would become:

• If -X debt is chosen for Impact A, secretly randomly choose a value for X: a number between zero and the Red Line value

If proposal “C’est une conversation” is voted into law, repeal the Locations and Socialiser rules. Both mention item sub-types, which this rule makes obsolete.