Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Gutting the Carcass

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 01:08  AM, SkArcher wrote:

> 19/07/2003 05:59:02, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 10:55  PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> >
> > > > H. Failed Proposals
> > > >
> > > > When a proposal fails, the following effects occur in order.
> > > >
> > > > The author of the proposal loses 1d6 points.
> > > > Other effects specifically related to proposal failure, such as 
> > > > Charm
> > > > and Entropy
> > > > adjustments, occur.
> > >
> > > -Ooohbugger. Anything, you've found something... I'd say that "if 
> > > this
> > > proposal fails, do blah" falls pretty neatly under the heading of
> > > "effects specifically related to proposal failure." Pardon me whilst 
> > > I
> > > profit from this.-
> >
> > No, that's effects specifically related to the failure of proposals in
> > general, not to yours in particular. Besides which, the text of your
> > proposal only matters if your prop passes; so the failure bit is only 
> > a
> > failure effect of your prop if your prop passes.
> >
> > But thanks for wasting most of your bandwidth on props that will do
> > nothing but lose you score and charm... always good to gain a little
> > more relative advantage.
>
> Now, I initially thought that, but I'm not so certain. There is 
> nothing says that a prop can't have effects if it fails. Yet. And the 
> only props I've made are a
> closure of the (theoretical) loophole, so either way I come up 
> smelling of roses thanks to the baron :)

But nothing says it does, and there's no reason to assume it will. 
Nothing indicates that the ruleset will suddenly repeal itself tomorrow 
for no reason; but nothing says it can't either. Does this mean that it 
does?

No.

--
Wonko

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