Nomic 2/Proposals/Flavour Text

Proposal

NEW RULE:

Each proposal created after this rule is passed shall be accompanied by a passage of 'flavour text', written in italics, of length 1 to 5 sentences. This passage is not considered part of any rules being proposed in the proposal, in terms of governing the behaviour of players. The flavour text also must not directly contradict the flavour text of proposals already passed or else the proposal is invalid. If the proposal contains any rule changes, the flavour text must illustrate at least one of: the need for the rule changes, the context of the rule changes, the consequences of not following the changed rules, the consequences of following the changed rules.

The archivists of Zuulana were most byzantine in their filing systems, but within the book of 'Nomic, a horrifying story could, with training, be eventually deciphered.

Proposed by

Fang

Comments

For the narrativists amongst us!

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I like this. I'll be back to vote in favor of it tomorrow if no one has presented any objections or criticisms of it in the meantime. (The only reason I'm not voting yet is so that Fang can still edit it if anyone else has suggestions.) --Jota 16:38, 28 January 2012 (PST)

In favour. --Maga 12:37, 29 January 2012 (PST)

Aye, in flavour. --vimes 16:15, 30 January 2012 (PST)

This rule at least has some marginal utility--Olethros 06:04, 31 January 2012 (PST)

Can the non-narrativists amongst us opt-out? --Doug 11:34, 31 January 2012 (PST)

No. :I I guess you can try to game the system by using very sparse and innocuous flavour text, but potentially in the future we might pass proposals that make flavour text more important... Alternatively you might want to propose a seperate class of non-narrative players who don't have to follow narrative-related rules...--Fang 13:20, 31 January 2012 (PST)

I am fine with the occasional sparse and innocuous flavour text, personally. --Jota 13:23, 31 January 2012 (PST)

I guess it's a bit late to say this, now that it's into voting, but: I'd be happier if it only applied to rule proposals. We also use the proposal and voting system to add players to the game, and may use it for other mechanical functions in the future. But if I need to add a line of flavor text describing the person that I want to invite to the game, I'll do that. Baf 17:40, 31 January 2012 (PST)

From the wording of it, I don't think the content of the text has to relate to anything other than rules. So if your proposal doesn't affect any rules, then you can write anything you want that doesn't contradict earlier flavor text. --Jota 10:14, 1 February 2012 (PST)

Voting

• Jota: Aye.
• vimes: Aye.
• olethros: Aye.
• Fang: Aye.
• Baf: Aye.
• maga: Aye.

Proposal Status

Passed as of http://inky.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nomic_2/Proposals/Flavour_Text&oldid=3276