Saturday, February 15, 2025

Proposal: So Many Rules…

Timed out, 2-4. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 17 Feb 2025 17:16:39 UTC

Add the following new subrule to “Turns and Rounds”, titled “Turn Summary”:

The rest of this subrule is flavour text.

This subrule consists of a summary of the Turn Actions in each of the Major Islands. The numbers before actions denote their Phase. (Note that the two Phase 10 global actions described in “Gates” have been omitted for clarity.)

ISLAND OF KITTENS
1. On a purple square, make it white and gain a kitten
1. Move from the gate to square 90

2. Roll dice and move a token by the sum (mandatory, may be performed for each token) Optionally spend Sprint to move further.
2. On a yellow, orange or silver square, change its colour (See “Rusting”) (mandatory if possible)

3. Move from green square to next green square (mandatory if possible)
3. Teleport from turquoise square to another of your tokens
3. Transfer kittens between tokens on the same square
3. Spend a kitten to make three squares purple

4. Attack another player’s token with less kittens on the same square
4. Combine the colours of two neighboring squares (see “Mixing Color Pallet”)


KAHUNA
2. Roll dice and move a token by the sum (mandatory, may be performed for each token) Optionally spend Sprint to move further.
2. Either roll dice and add the results to your hand, or set your hand to empty (may be performed for each token in Kahuna)
2. On a yellow, orange or silver square, change its colour (See “Rusting”) (mandatory if possible)

4. Combine the colours of two neighboring squares (see “Mixing Color Pallet”)

10. Become worthy if your hand’s rank is higher than the royal hand’s rank, updating the royal hand to match your hand

FORBIDDEN ISLAND
2. Roll dice and move a token by the sum (mandatory, may be performed for each token) Optionally spend Sprint to move further.
2. On a yellow, orange or silver square, change its colour (See “Rusting”) (mandatory if possible)

4. Combine the colours of two neighboring squares (see “Mixing Color Pallet”)

HELLAPAGOS
2. Roll dice and move a token by the sum (mandatory, may be performed for each token) Optionally spend Sprint to move further.
2. On a yellow, orange or silver square, change its colour (See “Rusting”) (mandatory if possible)

4. Combine the colours of two neighboring squares (see “Mixing Color Pallet”)

Within this subrule, make all instances of the word “mandatory” bold.

An attempt at clarifying things slightly.

Comments

Josh: he/they

15-02-2025 12:23:57 UTC

“This entire subrule is flavour text” Is a fun paradox.

This probably doesn’t need to be a rule - having to change it by proposal every time the rules shift seems onerous. Why not just keep it informally on the wiki and link to it in the sidebar?

Desertfrog:

15-02-2025 14:22:41 UTC

Paradox solved.

I think it would make sense for the summary to be in the ruleset rather than a wiki page, because all the actions are in the ruleset and you’d probably have to read parts of the rules anyway when taking your turn.

But I’m not very confident with this as a solution in general

ais523:

15-02-2025 16:22:59 UTC

I see a risk that people would forget to update this when writing proposals (which is why you’d ideally want the list to not be gamestate, so that it could just be fixed when it went out of date rather than needing to ask for permission).

JonathanDark: he/him

15-02-2025 18:24:44 UTC

The side bar idea is a decent one. I personally had in my mind conflated the gamestate page being regulated by the ruleset as the whole sidebar being regulated by the ruleset.

Desertfrog, if you want to make this into a wiki page instead, I’ll add it as a link in the sidebar. We just can’t add that link to either the ruleset or the gamestate page, because then it would be regulated by the ruleset and subject to its rules for changes. It’s better to let it be edited ad hoc as needed.

ais523:

15-02-2025 23:22:25 UTC

against I’m in favour of something like this existing, but not in favour of it being part of the Ruleset itself – it seems too hard to keep in sync if we aren’t allowed to change it withotu proposals.

Habanero:

16-02-2025 03:57:16 UTC

against per ais

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

16-02-2025 04:09:03 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

16-02-2025 06:56:44 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

17-02-2025 11:02:20 UTC

against