No. 

I feel conflicted about this, since it’s meta and it’s Lovecraft, which I like both, but I still have a bad feeling about it.

Does a rot13-ened rule still apply? It does still “say” something.

If it somehow has meaning, I believe so. However if its just jibberish then I believe that it would just mean nothing.

IF the argument for that the Rot-13’d rule means something is that it has meaning via it being readable by a language that is defined as “English, but Rot13’d”, then why couldn’t I just read the rules in any arbitrary language I make up too? What would make “English, but Rot13’d” special in particular?

But yeah, also, this is definitely an extremely aggressive rule (potentially, if given an outlet). I agree with that caution is a good idea, but I also believe that it would be exciting (and feel looming and dangerous like a real lovecrafting horror!) because of it’s extreme nature (and it’s just limited to the Dynastic Rules anyway, no world-ending Core Rules messing).

Vs lbh’er pheeragyl ernqvat naq haqrefgnaqvat guvf, gurer’f fbzrguvat fcrpvny nobhg “Ratyvfu, ohg ebg13rq” gung znxrf vg qvfgvapg sebz na neovgenel ynathntr, fhpu nf gur bar orybj.

Yberz vcfhz qbybe fvg nzrg, pbafrpgrghe nqvcvfpvat ryvg, frq qb rvhfzbq grzcbe vapvqvqhag hg ynober rg qbyber zntan nyvdhn.

CTHULU FTGAN

The game gets more interesting when you add rules.  Arbitrarily repealing rules can only make it more boring or more exploitable.

pokes, logically there will be different letter frequencies and common letter sequences, but English in rot13 looks exactly like Latin in rot13 to me, since I am not a computer program, and has exactly the same information content.

Definitely. That’s why I’ve made this “villainous” being have the power to do something as villainous as destroying part of the game.

That’s what makes him evil!

Although I agree with that it would very convenient to keep him at bay and perhaps make him only use his power once or twice ever in the dynasty or something, to not make it too overbearing.

Villains have to be interesting, too, not just evil.  Besides, we already know you’re just going to use this to destroy the entire ruleset so we have to start the dynasty over again.

Not only that, but steal from babies too.

Nah, I’m sure someone gets some enjoyment out of stealing from babies.

the Ancient one doesn’t have to be a villain, it could just be evil.

it’s too extreme for now. Although Cthulhu and his friends are pretty much just evil incarnate.

I like the idea of an entity residing in a rule. Very creative. ut garbling rules sounds like trouble.