BlogNomic: The Soul of Wit

Friday, December 11, 2009

Proposal: The Soul of Wit

13-5, cannot be enacted w/o CoV -Darth

Adminned at 12 Dec 2009 14:04:32 UTC

Add a dynastic rule entitled “Brevity”, as follows:

The Djinn shall disregard words in a given Wish after the 25th word. The Djinn shall be the sole arbiter of how many words are in a given Wish, and may (but is not required to) disclose its standards for counting the number of words in a Wish.

i.e., it is up to the Djinn to decide whether a Wish reading “Award Iepnw III 25 corruption” contains three words, or four, or five.

Comments

Apathetic Lizardman:

11-12-2009 18:23:58 UTC

Kevan: he/him

11-12-2009 18:24:42 UTC

Klisz:

11-12-2009 18:27:00 UTC

spikebrennan:

11-12-2009 18:29:15 UTC

Part of the point is to avoid the Djinn having to process a 50-page Wish with thousands of subclauses intended to deal with various contingent interpretations. That’s not a game, it’s my day job.

Klisz:

11-12-2009 18:34:11 UTC

CoV

Players should be encouraged to write 50-page Wishes. Doesn’t matter if you wouldn’t like to process them, as long as Wak is okay with it.

NoOneImportant:

11-12-2009 18:45:02 UTC

What is this, Twitter? Why are we limiting the length of wishes? If it’s just to save Wak, one of his criteria for failing to grant a wish can be “I got bored while reading it”...