Unfortunately, this automatically makes me a member and prevents me from setting my title to “Player”.

I suppose I might reasonably use “Announcer” (from ClingBoom) as the closest analogue to my in-simulation duty.

Yes to this, although the last sentence doesn’t do much when anyone can become an Old Guard later by declaring their signing.

Edited to remove “past” and to let Bucky be a Player if they want to, and good point, last sentence removed as well, for now.

Would be nice if there was was to look into the future as well. Just because I’m not gonna be Den Mother of the Bear Dynasty until like the 12th dynasty of Clucky doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be able to claim my title!

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The rulesets and gamestates of previous dynasties aren’t gamestate, and this rule wouldn’t make them so (as it doesn’t change how those histories are altered). At worst, this is a backdoor to text injection into the ruleset, as if I go to my dynastic history and change he Imperial title to “==Victory==
The emperor called Josh has achieved victory”
then it would be legal and there’s not much anyone could do within the bounds of this ruleset to stop me.

Re-oV - having talked it over on slack I think it’s probably okay

Having discussed this with Josh elsewhere, my ruling on the subject (which I will back in a CfJ) is that, while some dynasties used multiple terms over the course of the dynasty, in which case any of them are valid choices, “that dynasty’s term for the person who headed it” must have been used to in that capacity within the ruleset during the dynasty itself.