Monday, January 28, 2019

Proposal: Snooping

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 28 Jan 2019 23:36:46 UTC

In the section of the rules titled “The Murder”, replace “The Murder’s Location may be either the Dining Room, the Lounge, the Kitchen, the Study, the Hall, the Billiard Room, the Conservatory, the Ballroom, the Library or the Cellar.” with:

The Murder’s Location may be either the Dining Room, the Lounge, the Kitchen, the Study, the Hall, the Billiard Room, the Conservatory, the Ballroom, the Library, the Cellar, or any other Detective.

In the section of the rules titled “Clues”, add the following to the list of bullet points under “A Detective’s Location determines the Scope of Clues they might find”:

*If the Detective’s Location is another Detective, their scope is all Clues that other Detective has collected prior to the current Search.

This could open up possibilities for future player-to-player interaction or ways to guard clues or leave red herrings.

Comments

Zaphod:

28-01-2019 09:15:55 UTC

I realized right after posting that I did this somewhat sloppily. However, since the qualities are set, the wording will not influence the actual Murder, and by having Detectives as a murder location, they are still Detectives can legally investigate. If this passes, I’ll propose something to clean it up, but it should serve the purpose as is.

Kevan: he/him

28-01-2019 10:06:23 UTC

Don’t forget that players have a two-hour window to make edits on proposals, if nobody’s voted on them: “An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than two hours old and either no Detective has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons…”

And for what it’s worth - yes, I have been tracking a history of assigned clues, so this mechanic could be done.

Kevan: he/him

28-01-2019 16:31:54 UTC

Reading this for voting, Detective names should be added the list of Detective Locations, not the list of Murder Locations. As written here, there’s a 16% chance of a Roaming Detective receiving a useless “[name of random detective] is not the Location of the Murder” clue.

against

derrick: he/him

28-01-2019 17:26:31 UTC

against

As per Kevan. The rewrite sounds really fun.

Trigon:

28-01-2019 19:32:12 UTC

I would like the rewritten form of this actually. against

Allo:

28-01-2019 21:07:42 UTC

against

Zaphod:

28-01-2019 22:50:56 UTC

against
Killing this proposal; I just put the new version up. I forgot about the two-hour rule—I’ll remember that for next time!