Proposal: Staying on Topic
In Backronym, add a subrule called “Topics” with the denoted description:
“Topic is listed as a game state and set by the Puzzler, defaulting to -. After the Puzzler has performed an Acrogenerate action but before Wordsmith have Backronym action, they may roll a DICE1000 and have the result equal to Y.
The list below shows the appropriate action the Puzzler does for Y:
- If Y is inclusively between 1-200: Set Topic to “FOOD”.
- If Y is inclusively between 201-400: Set Topic to “COLOR”.
- If Y is inclusively between 401-600: Set Topic to “MONEY”.
- If Y is inclusively between 601-800: Set Topic to “CLOTHES”.
- If Y is inclusively between 801-1000: Set Topic to “NUMBER”.
The list below has show’s the restrictions of each Topic from the list above:- FOOD: Wordsmiths must have at least 1 word in their Backronym be the name of a type of specific kind of food.
- COLOR: Wordsmiths must have at least 1 word in their Backronym be the name of a type of a color.
- MONEY: Wordsmiths must have at least 1 word in their Backronym be the name of a type of specific type of currency used in the world
- CLOTHES: Wordsmiths must have at least 1 word in their Backronym be the name of an article of clothing or attire.
- NUMBER: Wordsmiths must have at least 1 word in their Backronym be the name of the word spelling of associated to a number.
Josh: he/they
A couple of wording issues here. ‘Topic is listed as a game state’ doesn’t, I think, mean anything, and while the intention (‘The Topic is a publicly tracked variable’) is clear enough I think that the current wording is, at best, unusable, and at worst scammable.
‘After the Puzzler has performed an Acrogenerate action but before Wordsmith have Backronym action’ is not time-bound - because Wordsmiths have already performed Backronym actions in this dynasty this rule would never be able to fire off.
I also don’t understand why DICE1000 is being used rather than DICE5.
I’m leaning
in any case, though, as restricting the play space to these 5 topics seems artificially limiting.