I like this but I’m not sure about the phrasing of the first sentence—it seems like one could say “oh yes, I do have a number which I call Accidents, and specifically it is my number of Stone.” I think the more traditional “Each Engineer has a number of Accidents which is publicly tracked and which defaults to 0” would be fine.

There does seem to be a little friction lately with players writing gamestate definitions in different ways, but that seems like a good thing, really, it means that more people are actually writing proposals.

The proposed phrasing here seems fine to me.

@Brendan: In past dynasties, what I noticed was that if there wasn’t a rule that provided a way a Player or the Emperor to set a variable to specific values, it couldn’t be set. The absence of any such rules means that the variable has to take the default, since that’s the only other way the variable is set with any value at all.