On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 14:04 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, ais523 wrote: > > Arguments: By virtue of having the office of Pariah, a player who has > > had no Rests for a week, and did not become Pariah in that time, CAN win > > the game by announcement (via a specific Win Announcement: rule 2312), > > and likewise MAY do so. > > As a followup, I really don't know how to "fix" this. For all other > offices, the Grand Vizier patch is to make sure that the GV can't > do something with notice that other officers can only do w/o objection > (e.g. ratify wrong reports). But I still want the GV to have the > powers from those other officers. But this one office with no duties > and who has an officer-power to win would just cheapen the Pariah win. > Is there a elegant way to patch that, or do we just have to say "except > the Pariah" in the GV rule, thus starting an ugly list of exceptions? > Thoughts, ais523?
An inelegant patch would be to make the Pariah victory platonic, thus there's no longer an action that can be stolen. I suppose an elegant patch would involve tying a Pariah victory to the 23 Rests, somehow, but I'm not sure how you could word that sensibly. -- ais523
