Monday, June 28, 2021

Proposal: Tepesh

Timed out and enacted, 6-3. Josh

Adminned at 30 Jun 2021 08:33:25 UTC

Rename the rule Cornerstones to Ritual Chambers and rewrite its text as follows:

The four rooms in the corners of the Zahndorf Crypt map are known as the Ritual Chambers. Ritual Chambers have a background colour of #333333 and are always Lit.

At any time, as a Power Action, any Vampire Lord may spend the Darkness cost of a Feature to add that Feature to the Ritual Chamber of their choice. Ritual Chambers may not contain Glyphs and can never be made into the Sepulchre of a Vampire Lord.

When the Crypt Settles, if Richardo was Lightly or Grievously Wounded in a Ritual Chamber, or if Richardo collapsed a Dracula’s Sepulchre without Dusting Dracula, then a random room gains a Denizen with the name of Dracula, with the following statistics: Brutality 3, Cunning 5, the Bloodsoaked and Evasive traits, and a Sycophancy of None.

When the Crypt Settles, if Richardo encountered and defeated the Denizen Dracula, then a random non-Ritual Chamber gains the following Effect, which may only be added to a room under this circumstance and may not otherwise be added to any room:
* Richardo encounters Dracula’s Sepulchre

A room with the effect “Richardo encounters Dracula’s Sepulchre” should be treated as a Sepulchre for the purposes of collapsing a Sepulchre in the rule Sepulchres. If Richardo collapses a room with the “Richardo encounters Dracula’s Sepulchre” effect while holding a Silver-Tipped Stake then Dracula is Dusted.

In the rule Crypt Denizens, add the following to the end of the first paragraph:

A Vampire Lord may not name a Denizen “Dracula”.

Add the following to the list of Denizen Traits a Denizen may have:

*Bloodsoaked: When the Crypt Settles, if this Denizen Lightly or Grievously Injured Richardo von Nestor in this Enter the Crypt action, all Vampire Lords with Sigils in the room where the Injury took place gain Puissance equal to the Energy lost by Richardo von Nestor as a result of his interaction with this Denizen (+2)

In the rule Lair Actions, change “Cornerstone” to “Ritual”.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

28-06-2021 16:27:02 UTC

Seems reasonable, but I don’t like that Richardo can just warp to one of the Ritual Chambers if he gets the Secret Passage Map

Josh: Observer he/they

28-06-2021 16:46:31 UTC

That is still only the first step of several difficult-verging-on-improbable steps:

* Someone has to load a Ritual Chamber with a damage-dealing feature or denizen
* Richardo has to luck his way there with a map
* On a subsequent run, Richardo has to find a crossbow and then find Dracula
* On a third run, Richardo has to find the silver-tipped stake and then find Dracula’s Sepulchre

I wouldn’t count on this shaking out suddenly when the proposal enacts.

Josh: Observer he/they

28-06-2021 17:17:18 UTC

Anyway this is extremely out of the edit window so here’s an EAV for to see if it shakes any interest out of the woodwork

ais523:

28-06-2021 17:52:19 UTC

There’s already a rule against naming a Denizen “Dracula” (in the first paragraph of “Denizen Actions”). So this proposal is redundantly adding a second prohibition on doing that.

ais523:

28-06-2021 17:55:18 UTC

Hmm, another issue with this is that if Dracula decides to take up residence in E4, Richardo will be left with no way into the Crypt (in particular, he won’t have a chance to pick up a Silver-Tipped Stake).

I wonder if this would work better by making Dracula an NPC Vampire Lord? Maybe we could spend Puissance or even Influence to make him do things.

Josh: Observer he/they

28-06-2021 17:57:20 UTC

I don’t have an issue with redundancy.

On the E4 issue, it’s not a problem - Richardo’s location is set to E4 by the first step of the AA, and he’ll move into another room before triggering any denizens in that room - so he’ll only encounter Dracula if he goes back there.

ais523:

28-06-2021 18:09:09 UTC

Even so, if he *does* move back there, there’ll be no entrance to the Crypt any more.

Josh: Observer he/they

28-06-2021 18:17:39 UTC

Sure, that’ll need fixing. Plenty of time to patch it though. Or it might be fun to let it happen, and see how Richardo finds another way into the crypt…

Chiiika: she/her

28-06-2021 21:30:57 UTC

for

Janet: she/her

28-06-2021 22:01:46 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

28-06-2021 22:31:53 UTC

against for sepulchral reasons.

ais523:

28-06-2021 22:37:30 UTC

against I’m not opposed to the basic mechanic, but think this needs more work before enacting it.

Kevan: he/him

29-06-2021 09:12:07 UTC

against

Lulu: she/her

29-06-2021 21:13:22 UTC

against still want this to happen

Josh: Observer he/they

29-06-2021 21:15:11 UTC

Then why are you voting against it?!

Given the timescales involved before any of the effects in this proposal would kick in this is the DEFINITION of a pass-and-fix proposal

ais523:

29-06-2021 21:52:19 UTC

CoV imperial hoping that other people fix it, as I’ve been using all my slots on fixes recently

Josh: Observer he/they

29-06-2021 21:59:21 UTC

I’ll put my slot tomorrow to that very purpose.

Clucky: he/him

29-06-2021 22:08:34 UTC

imperial

Lulu: she/her

30-06-2021 02:48:21 UTC

imperial cov