BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

In Repel Evil, should Unwise be Rash?

Yep! Thank you.

Per my silly proposal (And the activity contained within,) I wish to be unidled.

You are unidled; quorum is unchanged.

Who is the Announcer?

Also, the Repel Evil text isn’t in a blockquote. Not sure if that’s required, but it is helpful.

Thank you, have corrected.

Blockquote isn’t required, and tends, in my mind, to be reserved for verbatim additions; as Repel Evil contains formatting marks that I want to be rendered in MediaWiki rather than literally tracked over I’d prefer to keep it out.

Changing the basically-Katastrophe-use-only Cat-moving ability so that it always gets closer even if the player doesn’t know where it is?

This sounds like Katastrophe wants to retire but has lost track of the Cat.

🙄

Kevan, your paranoia is starting to make it impossible to do anything at all.

It’s just standard endgame caution, amplified by being in a secret information dynasty where I can’t see your cards. When a player who you aren’t collaborating with proposes something that seems a bit unclear towards the end of the game, it’s better to vote on its worst case rather than its best, if there are some ways in which it could be the final puzzle piece they need to get to victory.

I’m not even sure what you’re going for here. Is the Kibble change intended as a deliberate boost for Katastrophe, balanced out by pro-Explorer Holy Cross powers (that we can push Katastrophe around, and test whether someone is Katastrophe by seeing if they hiss and refuse to pick something up)?

Is it just standard endgame caution? Because what I see is a scenario where there are only two fragments in play, one of which is in the hands of Katastrophe and / or a Katastrophe patsy, which means it’s midgame at worst.

What I do see is you blocking every attempt to change the way that Katastrophe works, which suggests very strongly that you like the status quo.

I read this proposal as a strict nerf of Kibble (it changes it from mode-in-any-direction to move-in-one-direction-on-rails). In the narrow edge-case scenario you paint, where Katastrophe wants to lose the role and has lost track of where the Cat is, they’re still better off with Kibble as-is as it is likely more productive to try to randomly land the Cat on someone else than it is to stand still for five turns pulling it towards you as slowly as possible, while other players hoover up Fragments or get into position for blocking Chant attempts. But again, I’m not sure that I read your objection as anything other than a defence of the status quo.

You are correct that the Holy Cross and the Blessed change are strictly pro-Explorer, and intentionally so. I admit that one of the intentions of this proposal was to see who would find a reason to vote against it….

Trapdoorspyder has one Fragment and is about to collect a second, and Katastrophe can give them a shortcut to the third when it appears, which could happen next turn. It feels pretty endgame.

I’m reluctant to vote through anything that gives Katastrophe a new, niche gameplay option that they didn’t have before, is all, in case it’s the last puzzle piece that Team Katastrophe need to win. We should have an easy quorum for restricting Katastrophe’s options without providing new ones, and I’d be on board for that.

Withdrawn