Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Proposal: A Place for your Things

In the rule “Heists {I}” add a subrule named “Stashes {M}” with the following text:

Each Participant has a publicly tracked Stash, which is a list of zero to two alphabetical characters, defaulting to zero characters.

As a Heist Action, a Participant may remove one alphabetical character from a word in a Mutable rule and add it to their Stash, as long as the word that was modified is a word in the English language after the modification $$.

As a Heist Action, a Participant with an non-empty Stash may remove any number of alphabetical characters from their Stash and add those characters to a word in a Mutable rule, as long as the word that was modified is a word in the English language after the modification $$.

Trying another way to be able to manipulate multiple characters at once. To be able to add 2 characters at once will cost 3 Heist Actions overall, but the advantage is being able to save “good” characters for later when you need them.

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Comments

ais523: Mastermind

21-01-2025 04:49:17 UTC

This seems fine to me.

JonathanDark: he/him

21-01-2025 05:01:20 UTC

To be clear; this proposal seems fine, or the existing DICE3 seems fine? If it’s the latter, then I’ll just repurpose this proposal slot for something else.

ais523: Mastermind

21-01-2025 05:19:54 UTC

The proposal seems fine. However, I’m not massively bothered by the DICE3; the proposal is an improvement on the current situation, but only a minor/marginal one, so if you have another use for the slot you might be able to get more value from it.

JonathanDark: he/him

21-01-2025 05:54:47 UTC

Ok, I repurposed my proposal to try another Heist definition. We’ll see how this goes.

SingularByte: he/him

21-01-2025 06:07:38 UTC

Isn’t this just a downgrade from tools of the trade, which also allows adding and removing characters but without the restriction of only adding one that you’ve previously removed?

JonathanDark: he/him

21-01-2025 06:14:57 UTC

It’s to let you add more than one character at a time, and perhaps a more favorable one later. I’m open to tweaking it though to make it more useful.

My other attempts at a Heist Action that would let you manipulate multiple characters at once were considered too powerful, so I’m trying to feel out the appropriate level of power with this one.

JonathanDark: he/him

21-01-2025 06:17:25 UTC

Maybe the max Stash should be 3 characters? Or maybe you can remove 1 or 2 characters at a time? I’m flexible as to what would make it different enough from Tools of the Trade to be a valuable Heist Action in its own right without being too powerful.

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