Proposal: The Price of Fame
In the rule “The Award Ceremony”, remove the text “Each non-Slug Snail has a publicly tracked numeric amount of Fame, which defaults to 0”.
In the same rule, in the Award Ceremony atomic action remove the step beginning with “Increase the Fame” and the step beginning with “Halve the Fame”.
In the same rule, replace “Fame and Medals” with “Medals”.
In the same rule, remove the sentence starting with “If there is a single Snail with the most Fame” and the sentence starting with “The Snails who have a quorum of Snails”.
In the rule “Equipment”, replace the text “spend the amount of Fame” with “Pawn their Medals for a value” and add a subrule named “Pawning” with the following text:
When a Snail Pawns their Medals, they pay a 0 or positive amount of their Gold, Silver, and Bronze to receive a value equal to the following formula based on the amounts of each paid: (5 x Gold paid) + (3 x Silver paid) + Bronze paid
Add a Slime Lubricant to Habanero’s Equipment if it is not already there.
Getting rid of Fame so that there’s less to manage for Races, but still allowing Snails to cash in their Race winnings for Equipment. Habanero gets a Slime Lubricant as payment for not having Fame anymore but having done the hard work to exploit the Fame bug.
in favour of What’s a Race
Habanero:
I find the Fame mechanic quite interesting personally and think it would be a shame to see it go. The end result of this Medal-only world is incredibly boring by comparison. Fame can have huge swings in the leader with just one failed Race, has a natural catch-up built in for late joiners, and gives meaningful consequence for dying (aside from the minimal consequence of not getting a medal). Medals accumulate over time with no risk of loss or dramatic flair! Being two Races worth of Fame behind is easy enough to come back from by messing up the leader, but two Medals behind is an almost unassailable lead when there are likely only going to be 5 or 6 Races in the dynasty.
I am aware that I have 28 Fame right now. I am willing to give the vast majority of it up in exchange for keeping Fame as a mechanic, because I enjoy it more than a garden-variety “this is how many Races you’ve won” resource. I encourage everyone to consider my counter-proposal instead of blindly voting for this one just because I have all the Fame.