I would suggest that if no gewgaws have been requested, we use the old system of random, rather than skipping them?

does “during the previous duel” and other stuff like that work? should be “while the previous duel was Pending” from what I can gather

I agree with Snisbo on filling the missing Gewgaw with random ones.

Also reword “If there is currently an duel” to “If there is currently an Open duel” and “next duel” with “next Open duel”.

Replace “during the previous duel” with “while the current duel was Open”. I don’t think Clucky meant that that a Gewgaw request has to come literally while a Duel is pending or being resolved, as that would be a very short time window, but let’s make that explicit to be sure.

I’m basing all of the above on Clucky’s repeated request to have everything fall on the cadence of Duels starting, so it makes sense to me that a request for Gewgaw should happen while a Duel is Open.

intentionally keeping out the bit about filling missing Gewgaw with random ones so people have to enage with the systems

Seems more interesting to have to deal with a changing variety of Gewgaws that maybe nobody wants, than a recurring coin toss between the players/factions active enough to have an opinion.

My issue with the “Gewgaw that nobody wants” is oftentimes the reason they don’t want it is that its just not very interesting. Or we’ve seen it a bunch already.