Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Proposal: Stay Fresh!

Timed out 1-2. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 03 Nov 2023 01:35:28 UTC

Add the following to “Style”

Each Wizard has a Freshness, which by default is 3. A Wizard is considered to be Fresh if their Freshness is greater than 0. Anything that would set a Wizard’s Freshness below 0 sets it to 0 instead.

Change the effect of “Expose” to be

Every non Fresh Wizard participating in the Duel loses 1 star for each of their styles which is None

Add the following step to the atomic action “Commencing a Duel”, right after “Apply the effects of the Duel’s selected Gewgaws, if any, that occur after spells are cast”

Reduce the Freshness of every Wizard by 1

Set the Freshness of every Wizard who was not idle on Wed 01/11/23—00:30:27 UTC to be 0.

Add a new spell called “Disarm” with the effect “The wizard in the targeted position’s Staff becomes None. For the remainder of this Duel, if they cast a spell targeting a position in the wizards ring they instead target the position one more than it (wrapping back around to the first position if needed).”

Add a new spell called “Trim” with the effect “The wizard in the targeted position’s Beard becomes None and pays 1 star to the Wizard casting this spell (If they do not have a star, their beard is still set to none by no payment is made)”

Add a new spell called “Defrock” with the effect “The wizard in the targeted position’s Robes becomes Plain. For the remainder of this Duel they do not lose any stars from the effects of Burn spells”

Make Disarm, Trim, Defrock and Gust all have the Belligerent trait and a speed of 2

New players shouldn’t get burned just because they haven’t had time to get their styles aligned yet. And I like Gust so I want more spells like it.

Comments

Bucky:

01-11-2023 01:14:15 UTC

I think, thematically, disarm should affect attempts to target others, rather than star gains.

Clucky: he/him

01-11-2023 01:42:34 UTC

Completely denying any targeted spell feels harsh though… but open to ideas on how to change it

Bucky:

01-11-2023 02:33:37 UTC

If they target a non-adjacent Wizard, it’s redirected to the adjacent Wizard in that direction instead.

Kevan: City he/him

02-11-2023 16:42:51 UTC

against Mild against for the overkill of a whole new player stat to balance a single spell.

Clucky: he/him

02-11-2023 17:45:56 UTC

I think there is more stuff we can do with freshness going foward. Like I was thinking of adding a spell that lets you play rock paper scissors with people’s style (Crooked beats Hooked beats Knobbed beats Crooked) but if that turns into a “take 2 stars from the new player” new players won’t want to join.

Snisbo: she/they

02-11-2023 19:32:17 UTC

against There isn’t a way to *raise* freshness, at least not one I see. That means that all of us will always be hit by expose, and so will any new player, after 3 days have passed.

Clucky: he/him

02-11-2023 19:50:51 UTC

Yes Snisbo that is the whole point of this. Three days gives you enough time to switch everything away from none.