Monday, January 21, 2019

Proposal: Whodunit/whydunit

Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 22 Jan 2019 08:53:28 UTC

If “Lead Piping” has not been enacted, the rest of this Proposal does nothing.

In “The Murder”, replace

Its Murderer may be Casey, Morgan Junior, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Isabel, James, Joshua, Anne or Robert.

Its Motive may be Hatred, Jealousy, Wealth, Self-Defence, Politics, Revenge, Accident or Sociopathy.

with

Its Murderer may be Casey (4), Morgan Junior (1), Benjamin (2), Elizabeth (2), Isabel (3), James (3), Joshua (4), Anne (4) or Robert (5).

Its Motive may be Hatred (5), Jealousy (4), Wealth (4), Self-Defence (3), Politics (3), Revenge (2), Accident (2) or Sociopathy (1).

This sentence, or this sentence with ‘he has’ replaced by ‘they have’, is the generator sentence:

If he has not already done so, the Chief may set all Qualities of the Murder to secretly random values, and then delete this sentence from the ruleset.

If the generator sentence does not exist in the ruleset, add it where it formerly was and un-set all Qualities of the Murder.

Replace the generator sentence with:

If he has not already done so, the Chief may set all Qualities of the Murder to secretly random values, and replace in this rule the text “The Qualities are not set” with “The Qualities are set”. The Murderer and Motive are set secretly randomly, weighted by the parenthetical number that follows each Possibility. The Qualities are not set.

Breaks some of the symmetry to make Murderer and Motive distinct mechanically from Location and Method. Also, keeping the method of generation in, so that it remains documented.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

21-01-2019 16:43:51 UTC

for

Trigon:

21-01-2019 17:03:29 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

21-01-2019 17:30:56 UTC

“un-set all Qualities of the Murder” can’t do anything, mind, as the values always have to be set to something. (They’d start with arbitrary alphabetical defaults.)

derrick: he/him

21-01-2019 17:40:55 UTC

for

edelopo:

21-01-2019 19:14:19 UTC

imperial