Friday, November 20, 2015

Proposal: The Omnificent Seven

Quorums 4-0. — Quirck
Actually, 5-0, archon’s vote wasn’t counted by BNScript. — Quirck

Adminned at 21 Nov 2015 14:30:57 UTC

Add the following cards after the cards of rank six, in “Drawing”:-

  • Seven of Cups - While active, any Reader may gain the Aura of Dreams and any other Aura. When this card becomes inactive, any Reader with the Aura of Dreams loses all of their Auras.
  • Seven of Swords - While active, any Reader with a Sword card in their Discard pile may swap it with a Card of the same or lower Rank from any Reader’s Discards.
  • Seven of Pentacles - While active, a Reader may Lift to Replace a Pentacle Card even if they have already done so since the most recent Drawing of a Card.
  • Seven of Wands - While active, a Reader may not take actions which affect the Auras or Discards of Readers who have a Wand card in their Discards.
  • The Fool - While active, Readers are not considered to have Power Cards.

Add an Aura called “Dreams” to the bulleted list in the rule “Auras”.

In “Discards”, replace “and applied only to them” with:-

and all instances of “Reader” or “Readers” in its ability referred only to themselves

Some minor clarification on “applied only to them” (so that Seven of Wands couldn’t be read as “everyone may not take actions against the Power Card holder”).

posted by Kevan at 20 Nov 2015 08:53:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

quirck: he/him

20-11-2015 15:16:48 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

20-11-2015 18:15:47 UTC

Does the Seven of Cups allow all Readers to gain ALL Auras as long as it’s in the Spread?

Kevan: he/him

20-11-2015 19:28:02 UTC

I don’t think so: I wrote it assuming that “a Reader cannot have more than one of the same Aura at any given time” means that if you already have one Aura of Dreams, it’s illegal to perform the single action of “gain the Aura of Dreams and the Aura of X”.

Brendan: he/him

20-11-2015 19:46:02 UTC

Ah, I read it as “have” and “gain” being different—the Reader could perform the action and ignore the redundant Aura of Dreams but still gain the other Aura. I’ll propose an amendment.  for

Kevan: he/him

20-11-2015 20:07:13 UTC

Even with different verbs, I think the glossary line about it being illegal to take an action that would put the game into an illegal state (“having two Dreams”) would still kick in:

“A Reader who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action’s effects are limited to changing values tracked in the GNDT and/or similar gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one or more of those values to an illegal value.”

Aname:

21-11-2015 02:42:50 UTC

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archon:

21-11-2015 05:37:30 UTC

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