Proposal: Variable Strength Population Crises
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 1 vote to 3 by Kevan.
Adminned at 09 Aug 2023 14:41:27 UTC
In the rule “Upsides and Downsides”, replace “Gain 5 People” with “Gain 2DICE4 People”, “Lose 5 People (or all People if you have fewer than 5)” with “Lose 2DICE4 People (or all your People if you have fewer than that many) and “lose 10 People” with “lose 4DICE4 People (or all People if you have fewer than that many)”.
In any Ongoing Dilemmas, replace all instances of “lose 10 People” with “lose 10 People (or all People if you have fewer than that many)” and “all People if you have fewer than 5” with “all your People if you have fewer than that many”.
Add the following to the end of the rule “Upsides and Downsides”:
Where an Upside or Downside contains a dice roller formula, it is valid with any possible value of the roll substituted for that formula”.
In the steps of Posing a Dilemma in the rule Dilemmas, before the step containing “Make a blog post”, add the following step:
* Roll any dice formulas in the selected Upside and Downside, and replace the formulas with the corresponding results in the selections (but not in the instances in the rule “Upsides and Downsides” itself)
yeah, i’ve been working on roughly the same assumption as Kevan — that getting actual resource gains should be rare and difficult, and most Dilemma Outcomes should be net-neutral, just shifting our resources so that we can specialise into specific ones. it should be the peripheral mechanics (like Gathering and Innovating) that we can leverage to get ahead in the central resource-shuffling game :0
lemon: she/her
i’m not happy about the extra unnecessary randomness, nor about how unintuitively those last two blockquotes are worded