On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 06:29 +0100, nethack4.org dicebot via agora-
business wrote:
> The dice roll was: 4
> This is R105, Rule Changes.
For reference:
{{{
When the rules provide that an instrument takes effect, it can
generally:
1. enact a rule. The new rule has power equal to the minimum of
the power specified by the enacting instrument, defaulting to
one if the enacting instrument does not specify or if it
specifies a power less than 0.1, and the maximum power
permitted by other rules. The enacting instrument may specify a
title for the new rule, which if present shall prevail. The ID
number of the new rule cannot be specified by the enacting
instrument; any attempt to so specify is null and void.
2. repeal a rule. When a rule is repealed, it ceases to be a rule,
its power is set to 0, and the Rulekeepor need no longer
maintain a record of it.
3. reenact a rule. A repealed rule identified by its most recent
rule number MUST be reenacted with the same ID number and the
next change identifier. If no text is specified, the rule is
reenacted with the same text it had when it was most recently
repealed. If the reenacting proposal provides new text for the
rule, the rule SHOULD have materially the same purpose as did
the repealed version. Unless specified otherwise by the
reenacting instrument, a reenacted rule has power equal to the
power it had at the time of its repeal (or power 1, if power
was not defined at the time of that rule's repeal). If the
reenacting instrument is incapable of setting the reenacted
rule's power to that value, then the reenactment is null and
void.
4. amend the text of a rule.
5. retitle a rule.
6. change the power of a rule.
A rule change is any effect that falls into the above classes.
Rule changes always occur sequentially, never simultaneously.
Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that
change to be void and without effect. An inconsequential variation
in the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity
for the purposes of this rule, but any other variation does.
A rule change is wholly prevented from taking effect unless its
full text was published, along with an unambiguous and clear
specification of the method to be used for changing the rule, at
least 4 days and no more than 60 days before it would otherwise
take effect.
This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be
created, modified, or destroyed, or by which an entity can become
a rule or cease to be a rule.
}}}
IIRC, last time this rule came up (under a previous Device-like rule),
it was very hard to find something appropriate, but the rule has grown
since, and there are now a lot of options. Maybe there's something
interesting out there?
--
ais523
Mad Scientist
