spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: I could call it Gnomilogue, but that would be stealing an idea...

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Alex Truelsen,

> I make the following proposal:
> 
> B.14. Bomb Gnomes
> 
> There exist Gnomes of type Bomb. A player with a Bomb Gnome may throw it at
> a Grid location, a Big Rock, or another player. If a player throws a Bomb
> Gnome at a Grid Location, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed and that Grid
> location's substance becomes Fire for one nweek. If a player throws a Bomb
> Gnome at a Big Rock, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed and that Big Rock and any
> Sirens on it are destroyed. If a player throws a Bomb Gnome at another
> player, and the targeted player fails to catch it within 3 ndays, the Bomb
> Gnome is destroyed, the targeted player loses 15 points, the targeted player
> is placed in Limbo, and the substance of eir Grid location is set to Fire
> for one nweek. If the targeted player catches the Bomb Gnome, 1d(4-n) is
> rolled, where n is the number of times the Bomb Gnome has been thrown. On a
> 1, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed, the targeted player loses 15 points, the
> targeted player is placed in Limbo, and the substance of eir Grid location
> is set to Fire for one nweek.

I like it, but it's kind of powerful, isn't it? I mean, there's a 1/4 chance
you'll get the <expletive deleted> blown out of you no matter what, isn't
there? That's gonna get really irritating, I bet.

-- 
Wonko