BlogNomic: Zoinks!

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Proposal: Zoinks!

Timed out, 7-0 (One was a deferential). Passed by TyGuy6.

Adminned at 28 Oct 2021 23:43:27 UTC

Add the following after the fourth step and before the fifth step of the atomic action “Open House”:

Activate all Traps that are listed for the Property of this Open House. Any references to Attendees or a Property in the Effect of those Traps are assumed to be references the Attendees of this Open House and the Property this Open House is for, respectively.

Add the following rule called “Trap Time” to the ruleset:

A Trap is an item listed below in this rule with a Price and Effect. As a Night action, any Realtor may purchase a Trap by paying an amount of bucks equal to its Price and adding that Trap to the list of Traps for any House which does not already have a Trap with the same name already listed and which is not being Sold by that Realtor. To Activate a Trap, perform its Effect.

Traps:

Vomit Bomb: Price: 4. Effect: For each Attendee that has a higher Bravery than Health, reduce both of those attributes by the difference between the two. If the difference between the two is greater than either of those two characteristics set both to 0 instead.

Fake Skeleton: Price: 1. Effect: Each Attendee with 5 or less Bravery ceases to be an Attendee.

Skeleton: Price: 2. Effect: Each Attendee with 3 or more Bravery loses 3 Bravery, each Attendee with 2 or less Bravery gets set to 0 Bravery, then each Attendee with 5 or less Bravery ceases to be an Attendee.

Let’s get some poky bits flying around!

Comments

Vovix: he/him

26-10-2021 21:27:53 UTC

I like the spooky traps, but as I mentioned on the charisma proposal, I have no reason to support increasing the payouts for people who already bought houses while simultaneously making it harder for me to buy one in the future.

Vovix: he/him

26-10-2021 21:35:58 UTC

Greentick with the edit.

Brendan: he/him

26-10-2021 21:48:27 UTC

In favor of this broadly. However, Fear doesn’t exist anymore, and I believe all Buyer stats are already defined as nonnegative, so they can’t be reduced below zero—and the newly enacted Eligible Buyers rule might be a more appropriate place to put the wording about how to spawn a ghost, as it covers the same ground.

Josh: Observer he/they

26-10-2021 21:56:41 UTC

I will also say that the prices are a bit high; the vomit bomb is almost the mean amount you can expect to sell a house for yourself, and that’s a lot of money to invest in a single ambiguous spike on a rival. I’d drop all of these traps down to the 1-4 range and get them really flying about.