Proposal: Wibble Quibble
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 12 Apr 2023 13:56:33 UTC
Delete the three consecutive steps in the Build atomic action that begin with the step “Spend any amount of Focus” and replace them with the following:
* Spend any amount of Focus (which may be 0 Focus) to roll DICEN, where F is the amount of Focus spent, G is equal to the number of Gaps in the Building, and N = G x 25 - F. If N would be less than 0 then this step cannot be completed.
* Decrease Building Stability by the result of the die roll in the preceding step.
Delete the step of the Build atomic action that reads “If the Level of the Block that was swapped with the topmost Level now contains 3 Empty Blocks, decrease Building Stability by 50”
If the proposal “The Weakest Link” was enacted, then reword the step of the Build action that begins “If the Wobble before subtracting Focus was an odd number…” to read as follows:
* If the amount that Building Stability decreased in the preceding step was an odd number, and there are any Weakened Blocks, then choose any one Block that is Weakened and replace it with an Empty Block.
The only effective change to the current process in this rewrite is that it moves the subtract-Focus-spent step to before the roll instead of after. But there are some glaring holes in the current wording—what does the “times 25” clause modify? What about “to a minimum of zero”—does it refer to the Wobble or the amount of Focus spent? Which of the foregoing Build steps could “the step above” refer to? Why do we need the term Wobble at all?
Although there is some fun being lost in the fact that the subtract-after die roll plainly shows a player how much Focus they should have spent.
JonathanDark: he/him
While we’re quibbling, I just want to check that “any amount of Focus” doesn’t allow an Engineer to spend negative amounts of Focus, nor does it allow an Engineer to spend more Focus than they have, which would result in a negative Focus.