If you wanna make it a can opener proposal, why not just change the “if Brendan feels the rules are broke” to something one “if Brendan feels like it”? (Or maybe just give any player that power)

I don’t mind this passing unanimously, I think even Brendan would accept that the Perdurable rules aren’t anything but ruleset bloat once Imperial Lineage is gone.

Get 6 or so players voting yes, and then we can feel justified poking the remaining players to get unanimity. It would feel neat to have that sort of unity on day 2 of 2022 (though it’s still not to be expected).

Also worth noting that the restrictions on Unanimity don’t actually kick in until someone makes them do so, which is a ‘may’ choice that we can put off infinitely if we want to.

Where does this leave the fact that the ruleset “comprises five Sections”, though?

I guess it leaves an empty section called Perdurable Rules, until such a time as we also fix 1.1.

@Josh The “may” is in the description of the section, but I think the part that is important is always “on”: “if a Votable Matter would modify a Perdurable Rule, and that Votable Matter is not Unanimous, then that Votable Matter is not Popular.”

@TyGuy that section is explicitly called out as being flavour text, until someone makes it not be

@Josh, it WAS flavour text last dynasty, but now this clause is forever false: “If it is the Eighth Dynasty of Brendan and the player named Brendan is the Emperor, then the paragraph immediately following this one is flavour text:”

We can repeal that paragraph once Brendan stops being emperor, but it won’t change anything when we do.

Ah, yeah, fair enough.