Proposal: “Yours sincerely, Rawwwwrr!”
Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 12 Nov 2019 09:28:35 UTC
In the rule “Transformation”, amend the first paragraph as follows:
A Monster is Transforming or not, and defaults to Transforming. While Transforming, whenever the Monster would lose HP, it doesn’t lose HP. A Transforming Monster cannot perform Battle Actions.
A Transforming Monster can Finish Transforming to stop being Transforming, gain up to X Monstrosities of their choice (where X is the amount of Adventurers in the dynasty when Transformation began), and set their HP to default. To Finish Transforming, the Monster makes a blog post with the tag “[Monster]” in its title, in which post it states what Visible Monstrosities it has (if it has any).
In order to use Hidden Monstrosities, the Monster must privately inform the Priest of their number and type; such notification should be by Private Message. If the Priest has received no such notification by the time the Monster has performed its first Battle Action following its Transformation, the Monster shall be considered never to have had any Hidden Monstrosities, and never to have performed any Battle Actions which they couldn’t have performed without such Hidden Monstrosities.
Only a Monster can have Monstrosities. When a Monster ceases to be such, they also lose all of their Monstrosities.
There are several ambiguities in the existing rule:
a) When Adventurers Idle, does the Monster lose Monstrosities? [I suggest that it does not, mostly for the sake of avoiding confusion.]
b) Does Transformation not end unless the Priest is informed of the existence of Hidden Monstrosities? How does everyone else know? [I’ve clarified the connection, so that the important moment is when the blog post is made.]
c) The syntactic connection between the process and the effects of Finishing Transformation is less than satisfactory. [I’ve clarified it.]
d) Why is all this a single paragraph?
(The rules alternate “it” and “they” when referring to the Monster; I find this annoying, but I suppose I’ll have to live with it.)
Regarding the notification of the Priest, I vacillated between a stricter time limit (in the interests of better oversight; after all, the current rule more or less assumes that the notification will be instant) and a looser “need to know” rule (in which the Priest would only need to be informed about a Hidden Monstrosity before it were to be used by the Monster). I think I’ve struck a good balance here; after all, the Monster has to be the one to initiate combat, as the rules currently stipulate.
Looks good.
Madrid: