[spoon-discuss] Subgame?

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How does this look for a start?

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__[Not Yet] Turns__

Players have Turns. Turns alternate between players, moving cyclically 
according to the Turn Order.

It can only be one player's turn at any given time.

One player is said to be the Starting Player. Every time the Starting 
Player has a turn, that is said to be the beginning of a new Turn 
Cycle; thus, a Turn Cycle is the set of turns starting with the 
Starting Player's turn and ending with the turn immediately preceding 
the next turn of that player.

If the Starting Player ceases to be a Player, the next player in the 
Turn Order becomes the Starting Player.

The Turn Order is a list of all Players who have been playing since the 
beginning of the current Turn Cycle, in alphabetical order according 
the names they had at the beginning of that Cycle. [[Thus, the Turn 
Order may change at the beginning of each Turn Cycle]] Players take 
Turns in the order listed in the Turn Order.

New players are inserted into the turn order at the beginning of each 
turn cycle.

Turn-Actions are action that may only be taken by a player when it is 
eir Turn.

Ending the Turn is a Turn Action; it causes the player's Turn to end, 
and the next player's Turn to begin.
}}

{{
__Cards__

A. Definition
There exist Cards. Each Card has a name and a body, both of which are 
text.

[[The rest of section A of this rule was originally taken from 
http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/rules.html#overview . The text has been 
modified to fit this game.]]

There are two types of Cards: Actions and Things.

A.1. Actions
Actions represent one-off events, and can affect any aspect of the 
game. Some Actions may specify that they can be played out of turn, 
either as a response to something else happening or with no excuse at 
all.

When a Player plays an Action card from their hand, it has the effect 
the card specifies and is then placed on the discard pile.

Actions are denoted by a (A) preceding their titles.

A.2. Things

Things typically represent physical objects, or states of affairs. When 
a Player plays a Thing card from their hand, it is put into eir 
playspace and remains there until a card does something to remove it. 
When a Thing is "destroyed", it goes to the discard pile.

Some Things do nothing except exist (owning them perhaps being useful 
for other purposes); other Things might - if their card text says so - 
have an effect on the game while they remain in play, have a one-off 
effect when they're first played, or have effects that trigger when 
something else happens.

Things are denoted by a (T) preceding their titles.

A.2.1. Playing 'onto' things

Some Things can be played "onto" other Things. When you play these, you 
choose an existing Thing for them to be attached to, and they usually 
give that Thing some sort of bonus or penalty while they remain in 
play. If a Thing is destroyed, any Things that were played onto it are 
also destroyed (although not vice versa).

A.2.2. Action spending

The shorthand "Action: [do something]" in the text of a Thing means "In 
place of playing an Action, the controller of this card may [do 
something]". The produced effect counts as an Action, to all intents 
and purposes  (although the Thing card stays in play).

B. The Cards
Cards may only be created or destroyed according to the rules.

C. The Deck
There exists an unordered collection of Cards called the Deck, and an 
ordered one called the Discard Pile.

In addition, each player has a collection of cards called eir Hand, and 
another called eir PlaySpaces. Cards in a player's playspace are said 
to be In Play, under the control of that player.

D. Gameplay
Playing a Card is a Turn Action. Each player may play at most one 
Action and one Thing during each of eir Turns. Players may only play 
cards from eir Hand.

E. Tracking
[[See below]]
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Now, tracking is a bit of a problem. It takes very little effort for 
one player to list all the cards in play, in the Discard, etc. But 
Hands should be known only by the player who has it... and drawing from 
the deck needs to pick a random card and only tell one player. Which 
means that the cards in the deck can't be known either.

The question is, how do we ensure a lack of cheating?

--
Wonko

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