Hiatus

Hi everyone,

The game is on hiatus while I'm out of town. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I just won't be able to keep up while I'm gone.

Thanks,

Geoff

Round 3, Turn 3

The Were-Rabbit moves 1 toward Square #1, landing on Square #1 and encountering no Players (since it crosses no Squares).

Round 3, Turn 2

The Were-Rabbit moves 2 towards Square #20 (forward), landing on Square #2 and encountering ortmage, who bribes it for $100.

scientia takes the default move, rolls 8 and advances 4 to Square #2, encountering the Were-Rabbit. The Were-Rabbit's cotton tail and tiny pink nose cannot distract scientia from its slavering fangs and vicious claws. The two fight ferociously, but the Were-Rabbit backs scientia into a corner! Just before the bloody conclusion, scientia throws $100 at the Were-Rabbit and runs for cover, defeated. (Were-Rabbit wins! scientia 5, were-rabbit 6)

ap takes the default move, advancing 6 to Square #17 and bashing the other Players' Pokémon collections.

JimTheCactus takes the default move, rolls 5 and advances 2 to Square #2, encountering the Were-Rabbit.

ortmage takes the default move, rolls 11 and advances 1, encountering the Were-Rabbit and bribing it for $100.

oni takes the default move and advances 10 to Square #1.

Round 3, Turn 1

In accordance with Proposal 2.2, an item shop is created in Square #8, selling the following items:

Name	Description	Cost
Were-Carrot	May be used to bribe the Were-Rabbit.	$50
Were-Carrot Seed	May be planted in Dirt and Watered. If so, will grow into 1d6 Were-Carrots in one turn.	$20
Cup	This is an ordinary cup. It does things ordinary cups do, like hold water.	$5
Shoe	This shoe was made for walking	$30

The Were-Rabbit moves 4 towards Square #20, landing on Square #20 and encountering no Players.

ap takes the default move and advances 9 to Square #11, smack-talking (courteously) the other Players. On the way, ap passes the Item Shop and purchases 1 carrot, 5 seeds, 2 cups and 3 shoes (individual shoes: one right, two left), for a cost of $250.

scientia takes the default move and advances 6 to Square #18.

JimTheCactus takes the default move and advances 6 to Square #20, encountering (and bribing) the Were-Rabbit for $100.

ortmage takes the default move, rolls 7 and advances 6 to Square #20, encountering (and bribing) the Were-Rabbit for $100. ortmage continues 1 to Square #1.

oni takes the default move and advances 8 to Square #11, passing the Item Shop.

NOTE: from here on out, I'm assuming the default move with respect to the Were-Rabbit is bribery, favoring items over cash, and the default move with the Item Shop is to not buy.

EDIT: Sorry, guys, I thought the Were-Rabbit was on Square #16, not Square #20. I've corrected things now.

Ruleset #2

Ruleset #2, as modified by Round 2 proposals

1. The Rules
2. The Admin
3. Players
4. Money
5. Items
6. Trade
7. The Board
8. Turns and Rounds
9. Proposals
10. Disruption of Gameplay
11. Ending the Game
12. NPCs

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1. The Rules

   1. All players must at all times abide by the rules. No player may ever perform any action that violates any rule in the current set of rules.
   2. The current set of rules is provided only as a convenience for interpreting the accepted proposals. In a conflict between a rule and the proposal that created it, the proposal is considered to be correct.
   3. In the event that two or more rules contradict at any time, the following resolving scheme will be used:
      • If one of the rules defers to another rule or explicitly states that it takes precedence over the other, then that rule will take priority.
      • If the above situation does not resolve the conflict, the rule which has been in its current form for the longest amount of time will take priority.
   4. All actions are subject to approval by the Admin.

2. The Admin

   1. The Admin for Gnomopoly is Geoff Lehr.
   2. The Admin is responsible for maintaining the Gnomopoly website and interpreting the rules.
   3. Players are allowed (and encouraged) to question and/or correct the Admin's decisions, however, the Admin will ultimately make any final decisions.

3. Players

   1. Each player will be required to have a unique nickname and a valid e-mail address. A single person may not act as more than one player.
   2. The Admin is not a player.
   3. New players may join the game at any time by approval of the Admin.
   4. Any player that does not contact the admin for 14 days will be removed from the game, unless previous arrangements have been made.
   5. All players are expected to act respectfully and courteously towards other players and the Admin at all times. Repeated violations of this rule will result in the offending player being removed from the game.

4. Money

   1. The Nomopoly Dollar is the basic unit of currency in the game. All fractional dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar.
   2. A new player upon joining the game will receive $10000.
   3. A player with less than $0 is said to be bankrupt. No player may take any voluntary action that would cause him to become bankrupt at any time during that action. Additionally, any player that is bankrupt may not take any voluntary action that would result in a loss of money at any time during that action.

5. Items

   1. An item is any object that a player may possess. There is no limit to how many items a player may have at any time.
   2. If stated in the item description, an item may be "used" by the player owning it and any effects associated with using the item will take place. Unless otherwise stated in the item description, using an item causes the player to no longer have possession of it.
   
   
   3. There exists an item shop that sells the following items to any player that lands on or passes over the Square:

      Name	Description	Cost
      Were-Carrot	May be used to bribe the Were-Rabbit.	$50
      Were-Carrot Seed	May be planted in Dirt and Watered. If so, will grow into 1d6 Were-Carrots in one turn.	$20
      Cup	This is an ordinary cup. It does things ordinary cups do, like hold water.	$5
      Shoe	This shoe was made for walking	$30

6. Trade

   1. Players may trade the following objects with each other by agreement of the players involved in the trade:
      • Money
      • Items, unless the item in question is specifically marked as untradeable

7. The Board

   1. The game takes place on the Nomopoly board, which consists of an ordered sequence of squares. Each square has an integer number.
   2. The board initially consists of 20 squares numbered from 1 to 20, and the board must at all times have at least one square.
   3. Any time a new square is added to the board, its number will be the integer one greater than that of the highest numbered square on the board at that time.
   4. The successor of a square is the square which has the lowest number greater than the number of the square in question. The successor of the highest numbered square is Square #1. A square is said to be the predecessor of its successor.
   5. The squares are laid out two-dimensionally in a grid with 10 columns. Square #1 is in the bottom left corner, and each successive square up to Square #10 can be found by moving right. Square #11 is above Square #10, and each successive square up to Square #20 can then be found by moving left. This winding pattern continues for as many squares as there are on the board (similar to the layout of a Snakes and Ladders board), however, if the highest numbered square is not a multiple of 10, the last row will contain less than 10 squares. Also, the board layout may have gaps if all squares between Square #1 and the highest numbered square do not exist.
   6. At all times during the game, each player occupies exactly one square. A new player upon joining the game will start on Square #1.
   7. If a player is instructed to "move" to a particular square, he is said to leave his current square, land on the destination square, and pass over each square in between in the direction of the move.
   8. If a player is instructed to "jump" to a particular square, he is said to leave his original square and land on the destination square, without passing over any squares.
   9. Each square will be randomly colored one of the following colors excepting the colors of its predecessor and successor. The color of the square limits what may be placed in that square:
      
      • Blue - water
      • Red - brick
      • Green - grass
      • Yellow - dirt

8. Turns and Rounds

   1. A Gnomopoly round lasts one week, from 00:00:01 Monday to 23:59:59 Sunday. It consists of three Turns and one Day Off.
   2. A turn consists of moves by all players
   3. A Gnomopoly turn lasts two days, from 00:01 the first day to 23:59 the second. Turns will run as follows: Mon-Tues, Wed-Thurs, Fri-Sat.
   4. Players may email their move to the Admin at any time during the turn. Results will be posted as they are received and acted upon.
   5. If the Admin does not receive a move from a player for a turn, the player will make the Default Move, described below.
   6. Default Move: When a player takes a turn, the Admin will roll two 6-sided dice and the player will move ahead on the board the number of squares indicated by the sum of the dice.
   7. The following types of moves are allowed:
      • Default Move
   8. A Player's lap count is incremented by one every time that Player moves forward from the Last Square to the First Square (whatever the respective numbers of those Squares may be) and decremented every time that Player moves backward from the First Square to the Last Square.

9. Proposals

   1. A player may make one proposal during a Round, at any time during that Round.
   2. A proposal can be any of the following:
      • The addition of new rules
      • The deletion of existing rules
      • The modification of existing rules
      • A change to the game state which does not necessarily fit into one of the above categories
   3. No proposal may make any reference to a characteristic of a player if that characteristic is immutable within the set of rules at the time the proposal is accepted, ignoring the fact that rules may change in the future.
   4. No proposal may have retroactive application or take effect earlier than the moment it is implemented.
   5. At the start of the next Round, all proposals made during the previous Round will be listed for Players to vote on. During a turn (and preferably sent along with their move), players may vote either "Yes" or "No" on it. Each player may not vote more than once on each proposal.
   6. On the Day Off, the Admin will tally the votes for each Proposal, and modify the Ruleset accordingly. If the proposal has more Yes votes than No votes, the proposal is accepted and incorporated into the Ruleset. If the proposal does not receive more Yes votes than No votes, the proposal is rejected.
   7. Once voting on a proposal has been completed, the number of players who voted Yes and No on the proposal will be made public, however, each individual player's vote will not be revealed.
   8. A proposal may be retracted by the player who made it before it is posted for voting.
   9. The Admin has the right to refuse to implement any proposal that in his opinion is discriminatory, paradoxial, infeasible to implement, or destructive of gameplay.

10. Disruption of Gameplay

    1. In the event of a paradox, infinite loop, or any situation that prohibits further gameplay, the game will be paused. The Admin also has the right to pause the game at any time if he feels there is a need to do so.
    2. When the game is paused, players may not take any actions other than voting until the game is unpaused.
    3. During a pause due to a disruption of gameplay, the players have the option to suggest to the Admin ideas on how to fix the game. The Admin will make a proposal, and the players will vote on it using the same procedure as a proposal made by a player. If the proposal is accepted, the proposal is implemented and the game is unpaused. If the proposal is rejected, the above process is repeated until the game is fixed.

11. Ending the Game

    1. The game will immediately end without a winner if the Admin is ever on the receiving end of a lawsuit from any board game manufacturer.
    2. Once someone has been declared the winner, the game ends.
    3. If there is only one player in the game who is not bankrupt, the non-bankrupt player is declared the winner.

12. NPCs

    1. Were-Rabbit:
       1. There is an NPC called the Were-Rabbit.
       2. The Were-Rabbit occupies a randomly-chosen space initially.
       3. Any player who would move past the Were-Rabbit must win a Battle with it or Bribe it; otherwise that player's progress is halted before crossing the Were-Rabbit's Space.
       4. That the Were-Rabbit shall move before all other players in the turn.
       5. That the Administrator shall move the Were-Rabbit by rolling a 6-sided die to determine the Magnitude of the Were-Rabbit's motion, and flipping a fair coin to determine the Direction (heads: toward Space #1; tails: toward Space #20).
       6. That the Were-Rabbit will Battle or require a Bribe from every player whose space it crosses in its Move, according to the desires of said player.
       7. Battle:
          1. The Player and the Were-Rabbit each roll a same-sided die.
          2. The Admin rolls for both the Were-Rabbit and the Player.
          3. The higher roll wins.
          4. If the loser is a Player, that player shall forfeit $100 to the Were-Rabbit's Hoard.
          5. If the loser is the Were-Rabbit, the Were-Rabbit will leave behind half of its Hoard to the winner.
          6. In the event of a tie, no money is exchanged.
       8. Bribes:
          1. You may bribe the Were-Rabbit by paying $100.

Round 3 Proposals and Round 2 votes!

Firstly, the results of last round's proposals:

Proposal #1 (wormhole): Yes 1 No 1
Proposal #2 (store): Yes 2 No 0
Proposal #3 (lap count): Yes 2 No 0

Proposals 2 & 3 are accepted and will be incorporated into the rules. Proposal #1 is rejected.

Proposals for Round 3:

Proposal #1:
Amend section 7.9 as follows:

Elemental items are defined as items that have one of four elemental types: water, brick, grass, or dirt. An item may have multiple elemental types, a single type, or no type at all. Any item not explicitly defined to have a type is non-elemental.

Each square will be randomly colored one of the following colors excepting the colors of its predecessor and successor. An elemental item must have the elemental type that matches with the square's color to be placed (though it may have more). The color of the square limits what may be placed in that square:

The mapping of colors to elements is as follows:

* Blue - water
* Red - brick
* Green - grass
* Yellow - dirt

Proposal #2:

Insert in section 8, where appropriate:

Jumping.

1. Jumping is only possible by paying money. You may pay to jump any
   number of spaces. The amount you must pay is equal to the number of
   spaces you want to skip, times $100.

and adding "Jumping" to the list of allowed moves.

AOQ (FAQ)

Asked-(at-least-)Once Questions:

Q: How early can we vote?

A: You can vote any time during the round (week).

Q: Can we suggest amendments to the proposals?

A: I'll let you have small tweaks on your own proposal, provided no one has voted on it yet, but generally (and you can, of course, change this ;-) ) if you want to modify someone else's proposal, it'll either have to pass, and become part of the rules, at which point you can modify as usual, or, if it fails, you can re-propose with the changes you like.

Q: Does the game have a fixed stop date?

A: Unless a proposal to have one is accepted, no. The game will continue until one of the conditions in "11. Ending the Game" is met.


Q: How does the were-carrot seed work? Once you plant it, will it have fully grown before you leave that square? If you let it grow for more than one turn, will it be higher than 1d6?

A: I interpret the proposal as follows:

Once a Player has planted and watered the seed, it will be available the beginning of the following turn. However, since I don't see any rules concerning how to pick up items (correct me if I'm wrong), I rule that a Player must land in the square an item is in to pick it up (ie, no picking up items before you move).

Letting the carrots grow longer will not change their number.