I am trying to figure out how to make "retroactive" instead of retroactive changes, at least for certain scopes...! This is crazy to think about! I'm posting as a draft so it can undergo review. I will keep working thru this, but I do plan to eventually propose this if someone else doesn't first. I would like to have a timeline-based subgame.
juan, you like complexity, I bet you could copy edit this like nobody's business :D ---- [will remove square brackets upon release] Unfathomability is a secured tracked singleton integer switch, tracked by an office called the Phantom. Anything that depends on the value of Unfathomability is tainted. Anything that depends upon something tainted is itself tainted. [Unfathomability is supposed to be this switch that acts as-if it is retroactive, but it actually isn't. So winning via some unfathomability thing is still permanent, and thus the retroactive change doesn't escape the scope. Additionally... because it's retroactive, it marks things as tainted, because those things could also change, and depend on it.] Making something tainted is secured at power 1, and is ILLEGAL otherwise. Violating this rule is a Class 20 infraction of Destroying the Timeline. [I don't want players making arbitrary statements that affect other officers on the value of Unfathomability, directly or indirectly.] Anything tainted is tracked by the Phantom. [This might be a lot to track, depending on the actual games implemented with retroactivity installed] When a rule declares that an action can be done "by corruption", then, by announcement, after fulfilling any non-tainted requirements, it can be put onto the Timestream regardless of its tainted requirements. Its success does not matter until a Measurement. [I'm trying to get a little hook-in with retroactivity to simplify usage. Additionally, quantum gamestate until it matters (hence measurement) so players don't have to worry about actual values of things until Measurement, or if they are actively trying to squeeze something out of the timestream.] Actions CANNOT and SHALL NOT be tainted unless the action is done by corruption. [All the safety for this nonsensical shenanigans.] -- 4ˢᵗ Deputy (AKA FAKE) Herald Uncertified Bad Idea Generator
