Proposal: We’re All Mad Here
Reached Quorum, 4-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 01 Aug 2024 02:45:28 UTC
In the rule “Madness”, replace “Madness greater than 0,” with “Madness greater than 4, they are considered Mad, and “.
In the same rule, after the text “Each Fishing Contestant has a publicly tracked number named Madness that defaults to 0.”, insert a new paragraph with the following text:
As a Fishing Action, a Fishing Contestant may perform Meditation, which is an action where that Fishing Contestant may spend any positive amount of their Energy to subtract an equal amount of their Madness, to a minimum of 0 Madness. Meditation costs no Energy to perform, other than the Energy spent to reduce Madness as part of the action.
In the same rule, replace “Spend any positive amount of that Fishing Contestant’s Energy to subtract an equal amount of their Madness, to a minimum of 0 Madness” with the following text:
Meditation, except that the amount of Madness subtracted is only half of the Energy spent (rounded down)
If there is a rule named “Blackwater Beast”, in that rule replace the text “44 hours” with “48 hours”.
With this change, Fishing Contestants can take on a little Madness, but it is more Energy efficient if they get rid of it before they become Mad. It also becomes a Fishing Action to remove Madness, which is not only more consistent with other dynastic actions but also makes it more interesting as a decision of when to get rid of Madness and the opportunity costs it presents to remove it.
SingularByte: he/him
I’d have been tempted to make Blackwater Beast into “every other day” or similar, just so there’s no need to measure the time out exactly. Might not matter much in practice, but it gives more flex to it.
Other than that,