Proposal: The Spoils of War
Withdrawn. Josh
Adminned at 30 Dec 2023 14:42:22 UTC
A war has broken out nearby. While the mundane affairs of mortals matters little to Necromancers, the source of bodies may be useful. Add a Location named Battlefield, and give it 50 Corpses. The text of the location’s effect contains three dates: X, Y, and Z. X is the day this proposal is enacted, Y is three days after X, and Z is six days after X. The effect text is as follows:
After X and before Y, after performing the Reanimate Corpses action, the risen corpse becomes a Ghoul. If the rolled age of the corpse is less than 40, then the mana cost is modified by adding the difference between 8 and the DICE8 roll to the base mana spent in the action. After Y and before Z, after performing the Reanimate Corpses action, the risen corpse becomes a Skeleton; the mana cost is not modified. The number of Corpses at this Location cannot be increased. After Z the battle has returned to this field, any Necromancer still at this location has their location set automatically to Tower, and no Necromancer may set their location to the Battlefield.
This adds a battlefield that is littered with corpses. In the first three days, the spirits are angry and the bodies, fresh, resulting in a plethora of Ghouls. The next three days sees bodies picked clean by carrion and produce only Skeletons. Due to the special-ness of the location, it is only available for six days and has limited Corpses. Any advice regarding brevity or better wording is appreciated.
Nice idea otherwise, though.
JonathanDark: he/him
Change “this rule is enacted” to “this Proposal is enacted”, since you’re not enacting a rule, per se, but adding text to an existing rule.
Also, just saying that “the danger renders this Location unusable” may not be sufficient description of the effect, as it sounds non-actionable. I would replace it with “no Necromancer may set their Location to this one”.
You’ll also need to figure out what happens when a Necromancer has their Location as “Battlefield” and then the day after Z occurs. At that point, the Necromancer has done nothing, and yet they have an illegal gamestate. One possibility is to add something like, “and any Necromancer with this Location has their Location set to Tower instead.”
It’s up to you exactly how you want to handle that.