Thursday, February 06, 2025

Ascension Address: The Book of the Board Game Island

As a series of Bank Heist were happening in a Kingdom down yonder, a different story begins passed the seas of and rivers of Tonari and Deep Blue on a few islands ruled by a Royal with a blue attire, which consist of a dashing suit, top hat that had peacock feather resting on its side, and matching shoes and a cane in hand. These islands that this ruler controls are, however, not used to conquering but for the lavish fun of gaming. Those who start here can’t stop until they make it to the end these travels or they may be left for a purgatory of dice rolling, card trading, and gambling until their last breath.


Change Participant to Meeple, and Mastermind to Monarchple

Repeal Rules in Dynastic Rules

Repeal “Dynastic Safeguard” from Building Blocks, and Keep “Precondition Unidling” and “Reinitialisation” and discard “Everyone’s Playing” from Building Blocks

Change the dynastic tracking page denoted as “The Heist Teams” to “Board Game Isle Reports”

And my Imperial Style thoughts that I have specified before in the discord server last night that I want this game to be similar to the game of chutes and ladders where everyone starts at a space denoted as 0 and it heading to the number that will be the designated finish line. Additionally for the places in between, I would like for them to have uses similar to other games, like buying properties like in Monopoly, or having some kind event happen like Game of Life, card drafting like in many games, etc. I’d also like to have it where the board has different layers to which the layers get harder as you try to pass through them. As for other stuff, I would like to have a turns and rounds system that has it where people can change the turn order for the next round and that something could benefit the person last in the turn order so that it isn’t just a fight for who goes first and that the person in last place isn’t in an endless cycle of being there. Additionally, it would be nice to use a similar mechanic from our pass dynasties for turns where each rounds ends when the Meeples all take their turns. Also as one last thing that I also specified in the Discord Server, since this is my first, is to keep things moreso on players to do their actions involving their game plays and that my participation should be to help guide things in a direction, daily/weekly actions, and of course voting,

Comments

ais523:

06-02-2025 15:25:54 UTC

You can’t keep “Dynastic Safeguard” – it specifies that it has to be repealed on ascension. I’m not sure whether that invalidates the entire Ascension Address or whether we just ignore that part.

ais523:

06-02-2025 15:27:47 UTC

I do like the “this is how I envisage the dynasty to go” paragraph at the end – I’m not sure I’ve seen Emperors do that before, but it makes a lot of sense. (Normally we just hint at it in the address, or make it clear via the first few proposals, but explicitly stating it seems like a perfectly reasonable idea.)

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

06-02-2025 15:29:09 UTC

JD said that I’m allowed to edit it but I’m unsure about that

ais523:

06-02-2025 15:32:40 UTC

“An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than 4 hours old and either no Participant has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset.” – so maybe editing would be illegal. (It probably shouldn’t be, but this isn’t a situation that comes up very often, so it likely hasn’t been fixed before.)

The fastest fix would be to simply just repost the ascension address with the correction. Alternatively, if we decide to move forwards, we could just uphold the situation by CFJ.

Raven1207: Monarchple he/they

06-02-2025 15:35:32 UTC

Fixed I think

JonathanDark: he/him

06-02-2025 15:51:07 UTC

Ugh, I forgot we still have the comments bit for non-votable matters, which is just silly. I’ll write up the CfJ.

JonathanDark: he/him

06-02-2025 16:05:22 UTC

CfJ posted. We’ll get this sorted.

Brendan: he/him

06-02-2025 17:56:52 UTC

Good luck and have fun with your first dynasty, Raven! I’m idling myself; quorum is unchanged.

JonathanDark: he/him

06-02-2025 18:53:24 UTC

Dynastic Reset performed

Kevan: he/him

07-02-2025 09:56:12 UTC

It looks like the link to the wiki page was lost when the Victory rule was last refactored, but Imperial Styles is a specific list of adjectives about how the Emperor generally intends to approach things like scams and biased proposals and complex Imperial actions, in their dynasty. It’s useful for the group to know that kind of thing up front rather than to discover it mid-dynasty, particularly for new players who won’t have the veterans’ advantage of knowing how the Emperor has tended to act in the past.

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