“Makes it so Unique positions don’t have to be given up for hunting positions.” - Sailors can always take their old positions straight back up again after a Hunt, though, if nobody else has stolen them. In a well-run ship, this would all be fine.

This also feels like it’s overlapping Items a bit - they’re also single-slot settings, and they’re waiting for someone to propose an effect for them. Things are starting to get strange if you can be a Cook who’s a Lookout and is wielding a Harpoon.

I’d blame the Harpoon rules for that. They’re weird at the moment. Only Harpooneers can perform attacks, and Sailors can only perform one action per Hunt. The only other thing you can do with attack energy is waste it, so a cook holding a harpoon is currently only holding the harpoon in case some fool decides to try and keep this whale from being caught.

If you can leave your position and return to it at the end of the hunt, you never lost it. You just effectively hold two positions, which is the same effect as what I’m proposing.

It also doesn’t make much sense that going out on the boats to hunt a whale puts your position in jeopardy. Not for anything short of a mutiny. Making sailors who are on a hunt unable to count for a mutiny would be a nice touch, but that’s not what this is.

Yes, harpoons are quite weird right now.

Maybe the neatest approach would be to stick with Positions for everything and make “carrying a Harpoon” the condition for attacking Creatures (you could even lose the Harpoon and only return it to the Haniver if you defeat the Creature) - and to give professional Harpooneers a bonus to taking that action.

So yes, good ideas here, but I think it’d add too much redundancy to the gamestate, feeling quite interchangeable with the (currently underused) “Items” column.

some people may have chosen their goal to become one of the positions that were removed.

Card: aspiring to become a harpooner feels like a scam. But its currently totally valid, and this would mess it up.

Self Killed.