Proposal: Worthy royals
Reached quorum, 6-1. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 27 Feb 2025 05:34:28 UTC
In “The Turn”, change
If you have a Token on the Closed Gate of a Major Island, become the Royal of that Major Island and set the Positions of all Tokens you control on that Island to the Square with the lowest value on that Major Island.
to
If you have one or more Tokens on the Closed Gate of a Major Island, and are Worthy of that Gate, become the Royal of that Major Island and set the Positions of all Tokens you control on that Island to the Square with the lowest value on that Major Island.
If any Meeple became the Royal of any Major Island while that Meeple was not Worthy of its Gate, set that Major Island to have no Royal.
The idea behind our current mechanic for becoming a Royal was supposed to require being worthy of the Gate, but that seems to have got lost in one of the rules rewrites – it seems a bit easy at the moment, so we should probably restore that restriction.
Habanero:
Oh wow, can’t believe I missed that in the rewrite. Completely unintentional