On 7/4/2020 1:00 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> >> On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >>> Unless >>> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >>> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in the underlying game of >>> Diplomacy in order to gain a competitive advantage. >> >> I'm a little puzzled/concerned about this bit. We're introducing >> proposals to modify these rules and therefore reading these rules closely, >> and it doesn't seem right to forbid that? Are there specific types of >> loopholes in Diplomacy (a game with very very stable rules for a long >> time) that you're trying to prevent us from using? > > > There's at least one well known way to get the standard diplomacy rules to > generate a paradox (Pandin's paradox). That said, I think it generally > speaking makes more sense to have the gamemaster adjudicate the problem > into non-existence than to impose a SHALL NOT on the contestants.
oh the convoy thing! There's several little movement edge cases like that. But they also rely on what the opponent does, so it's not "I'm trying to use an unintended loophole" but "my normal moves and the opponents' normal moves have given rise to an edge-case conflict, and the rules are silent on who has priority." So yeah, the sort of thing the gamemaster should just house rule on, not a SHALL NOT. -G.
