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Rulebook for the Lords & Lads stump variant
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Potential loop hole around using rallies/extra uprising flips #25

Open seanKenkeremath opened 1 year ago

seanKenkeremath commented 1 year ago

The current rule we have when performing an Uprising turn is:

A Lad may call "Uprising" and then perform a triple or even higher order flip. In this case they may make multiple strikes to the Uprising nail or any other valid nails. However, the first strike must hit the Uprising nail.

This would also apply to Rallies being used. This means that if there are 5 Rallies stacked up, a Lad could call Uprising, hit the Uprising nail once, and then hit their own nail 4 times.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. It does potentially weaken rallies (relevant to the issue here: #24) by introducing the risk of a Lad betraying the Uprising for their own benefit. This adds interesting politics to the game.

I'm leaning towards keeping this the way it is and maybe even drawing attention to that mechanic/dynamic in the Readme

mrketchup commented 1 year ago

Thanks for calling this loophole to my attention 😈

I like it though. Backstabbing for your own gain is a core mechanic of the game.