On 11 October 2010 23:12, ais523 <callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > > I think it can be done, just removing the actual action taken by virtue of being the Pariah. Say "If the Pariah has been clean for a week and did not become the Pariah in that time, anyone can post a win announcement stating that the Pariah wins the game"? It's not anything that the Pariah can do by virtue of being the Pariah, and "pretending to be the Pariah" isn't something the Vizier can do.
-- -Tiger
