Two things:

1) Are you purposely not adding a way to put entries in a Category? That’s fine, just asking if it’s something we need to do soon, since the first Drawing may not have any to pick from.

2) It’s probably unlikely, but what if there are no Storytellers with a Spark and all Categories are empty? There’s a few ways to address this: add a step that if no Elements were selected in the prior steps chose a random Word from the Oxford 3000, or add text to the rule that says the Publisher shouldn’t perform a Drawing until there is at least one Storyteller with a Spark.

Actually I just realized that issue 2 is very likely on the first Drawing. The rules currently say “If there is more than one step in the Drawing atomic action, the Publisher should perform the first instance of Drawing at their earliest convenience”, so as soon as this Proposal is enacted, I would need to perform the first Drawing, which wouldn’t give the Storytellers any time to set their Spark.

That would making the first Drawing and Judging very awkward, possibly stuck until a CfJ or rule change. If you can address this state in your Proposal now, that would be a lot more convenient.

Although I suppose if there are no Elements, then the first Creative Writings are essentially free-form, so I guess it wouldn’t be stuck after all. Still, it’s worth considering if this is the desired outcome.

Mario + Rabbids???

However, I’ll because this seems a little too complicated.

The “Randomly select a Common Word to be a Word Element” step will always be there, even if we don’t get a random category or any sparks.

I totally missed that step somehow. Sorry about that.

@Juniper the good news is that I as the Publisher will handle all of the complicated stuff. All you have to do as a Storyteller is choose a single word from the wiki page mentioned.

and you don’t even *have* to do that. It just gives you a way to slightly influence what will go into the story, if you get chosen

Thanks for clarifying, I thought it was a little complicated but also that storytellers weren’t involved too much.

Oh, then great!!