Proposal: This ruleset is a mess
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 07 Dec 2024 21:07:36 UTC
Append the following to the rule “Moving”:
The keyword Move with a capital M is distinct from “move” with a lowercase M. The former refers to the list of Moves in this rule. The latter refers to any change in a Snail’s Position.
In the description of the Slug of Death, replace ‘Other Snails may not move if the Slug of Death’s position is greater than theirs’ with ‘When the Slug of Death has a Position greater than a Snail, that Snail’s Status is changed to “Slugged”’.
Give ‘move’ a capital M in ‘cause the Slug of Death to perform the Crawl move for that race’.
Give ‘move’ a capital M in ‘When using the Crawl move, you may increase your position by DICE12 instead of DICE10’.
There was a strange unspoken agreement on the difference between “move” and capital-M “Move”. Josh is right to point out that this is incredibly ambiguous. This codifies the difference in the ruleset and irons out a couple inconsistencies. It also makes interpreting the rules incredibly difficult. I would’ve just rewritten the rules to avoid this distinction in the first place, but they’re already big enough that it’d be impossible to catch all the edge cases…
JonathanDark: he/him
I had already started working on a similar Proposal to rename capital-M “Move” to something else less ambiguous, but might work as well. There’s a few places that could still use a change:
The above could still allow a Snail after the Finish Line to have their Position changed by means other than a captial-M Move, such as a Slug’s Effect. I could see the Iron Slug pulling a Snail back under the Finish Line. Do we want that?
Another Slug could change the position of the Slug of Death, causing a reset of this 24-hour timer if this text is lower-case M “move”.
This is unfortunately using both lower and upper case M. We should decide on one or the other.