Re: spoon-discuss: Immunity Idol

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:58 PM 1/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Maybe the immunity idol should only protect players from negative effects 
> caused by gremlins... if it didn't, right now it has the possibility of 
> doing more harm then good, really (re: scoring gremlin, bandwidth 
> gremlin).  I dunno, maybe that was your intent, gritter.  Anyway, maybe 
> that should be thought about... Actually, now that I think about it, the 
> Bandwidth Gremlin's power stems from the Token, not the Gremlin 
> emself.  Would that get around the idol?  Or do the two rules contradict, 
> because the Idol says that no rule can create a gremlin which circumvents 
> the idol's protection.  That's kind of vague...  We definately should look 
> at this before the ballot comes out...

I actually thought of that when I was writing the proposal and decided to 
leave it purposefully all-encompassing.

First, it would be hard to legislate what "negative" is, because some 
effects are a bit more ambiguous than that. Trying to make it more specific 
also would be fruitless because there's no limit to the number of gremlins 
people could propose in the future and they could just write the gremlin's 
actions around whatever I specifically identified.

Second, I like double-edged swords. :-) The Immunity Idol might protect you 
from the negative effects of a Gremlin, but it also might screw you (if for 
example you received the Bandwidth Gremlin).

The Token/Gremlin distinction is interesting, though....

--gritter