Core Rules

Ruleset and Gamestate

This is the Ruleset for BlogNomic; all Necromancers shall obey it.

It comprises four Sections: 1) the “core rules” of BlogNomic, covering the essential elements of gameplay; 2) the rules of the current Dynasty; 3) rules which set metagame parameters for the current dynasty; and 4) the appendix, which complements and clarifies the Ruleset.

The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset. This document is considered to be, in effect, the only Ruleset for BlogNomic, so long as it is located at at the URL https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Ruleset.

If the text of the Ruleset document does not reflect all legal changes that have been authorised to be made to it, any Necromancer may update it to do so.

The gamestate tracking page for this dynasty is the The Graveyard page of the wiki. Unless otherwise stated, all publicly tracked gamestate information is tracked on it.

Necromancers

A human with access to the blog who is not already a Necromancer may make a blog post making clear their wish to be a Necromancer (plural form Necromancers); in response, an Admin shall add them to the roster in the sidebar, at which moment they become a Necromancer. (See the FAQ for guidance on how to apply for access to the BlogNomic blog.)

A Necromancer may only change their name as a result of a Proposal approving the change.

Some Necromancers are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. Necromancers who wish to become Admins may sign up with a username for the Ruleset Wiki, and submit a Proposal to make themselves Admins. Existing Admins may be removed from their posts by Proposal, CfJ, or voluntary resignation.

A Necromancer may cease to be a Necromancer at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be a Necromancer in this way may not become a Necromancer again within the following two weeks.

Idle Necromancers

If a Necromancer is Idle, this is tracked by their name being removed or concealed in the list of currently active Necromancers in the Sidebar. For the purposes of all Gamestate and the Ruleset, excluding the core and appendix Rules “Ruleset and Gamestate”, “Necromancers ”, “Dynasties”, “Fair Play”, "Mentors" and any of those Rules’ subrules, Idle Necromancers are not counted as Necromancers . The combined term “Idle Necromancer” can be used to refer to Necromancers who are Idle even in rules that do not treat them as Necromancers.

If a Proposal contains a provision that targets a specifically named Idle Necromancer, then that Idle Necromancer is considered to be Unidle solely for the purposes of enacting that specific provision.

When a Necromancer is unidled, if they went Idle in the same Dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the Necromancer Idled in a different Dynasty), the Necromancer is given the default value for new Necromancers, if such a value exists.

An Admin may render a Necromancer Idle if that Necromancer has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 Days), or if that Necromancer has not posted an entry or comment in the past 168 Hours (7 days). In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post, and the 168 Hour idle timeout is considered to be reduced to 96 hours for that Necromancer during the current and subsequent dynasty. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should announce it in a post or comment when they do so. An Admin may Unidle a Necromancer if that Necromancer is Idle and has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past 96 hours (4 Days), and Idle Admins may Unidle themselves at any time, unless the Necromancer who would be Unidled has become Idle within the past 96 hours (4 days), and within the current Dynasty.

Admins who are unidling themselves should, in their first vote following each unidling, highlight their changed idle status and any changes to Quorum to have come about as a result of it.

Idle admins can resolve Votable Matters as a non-idle admin would.

Dormancy

If there are fewer than four Necromancers (not including the Grim Reaper), then BlogNomic is on Hiatus.

Dynasties

BlogNomic is divided into a number of Dynasties. Each Dynasty may be headed by a single Necromancer, known as the Grim Reaper. If there is no Grim Reaper, the Dynasty is a Metadynasty.

An Interregnum is the period between dynasties, after a DoV has been enacted and before an Ascension Address has been posted. During an Interregnum the game is in hiatus; additionally, no DoVs may be made, and no Necromancer may achieve Victory. However, dynastic actions that are specifically permitted to be carried out during an Interregnum may be carried out.

Unless otherwise stated by a dynastic or Building Blocks rule, then for the purposes of dynastic and Building Blocks rules, the Grim Reaper is not a Necromancer.

Votable Matters

A Votable Matter is a post which Necromancers may cast Votes on, such as a Proposal, a Call for Judgement or a Declaration of Victory.

Votes

Each Necromancer may cast one Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the Official Post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, or DEFERENTIAL. Additional voting icons may be permitted in some cases by other rules. A valid Vote is, except when otherwise specified, a Vote of FOR or AGAINST. A Necromancer's Vote on a Votable Matter is the last valid voting icon that they have used in any comment on that Votable Matter. Additionally, if the author of a Votable Matter has not used a valid voting icon in a comment to the post, then the author’s Vote is FOR. A non-Necromancer never has a Vote, even if they were a Necromancer previously and had cast a valid Vote.

If a Necromancer other than the Grim Reaper casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL, then the Vote of DEFERENTIAL is an indication of confidence in the Grim Reaper. When the Grim Reaper has a valid Vote other than VETO on a Votable Matter, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Votable Matter are instead considered to be valid and the same as the Grim Reaper's Vote for the purposes of other rules unless otherwise specified. When the Grim Reaper themselves casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL, it indicates an indication of confidence in the votes of the other players; please see the Rules and Votable Matters section of the Appendix for more information on how this is resolved.

A Votable Matter is Popular if any of the following are true:

It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum.
It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, and more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST.

A Votable Matter is Unpopular if any of the following are true:

The number of Necromancers who are not voting AGAINST it is less than Quorum.
It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and it is not Popular.

Enacting and Failing

Votable matters have a status, which can either be Pending, Enacted, Failed, or Illegal. When a votable matter is first put forward it is considered Pending (which is tracked as having no status in the current blog software), and it remains Pending until it is Resolved.

A votable matter is resolved by an admin setting its status through use of the “status” field in the blog post editing form. When an admin resolves a votable matter they should mark their name, and are highly encouraged to report the final tally of Votes (or the fact that it was withdrawn or vetoed). Comments cannot be made on resolved Votable Matters.

A votable matter may not be resolved except as directed by the ruleset, and the status of a resolved votable matter, once resolved, is determined by the votes cast upon it, as assessed by the rules that govern the specific kind of votable matter (as well as any other considerations regarding the legality of the votable matter, such as the stipulations put forward in the Appendix rule Official Posts). When a Failed proposal has been Vetoed it may optionally have the Vetoed status upon resolution, which is considered to be the same as Failed for the purposes of all other rules.

This rule cannot be overruled by any other rule in its application to Calls for Judgement or Declarations of Victory.

Proposals

Any Necromancer may submit a Proposal to change the Ruleset or Gamestate, by posting an entry in the “Proposal” category that describes those changes (unless the Necromancer already has 2 Proposals pending or has already made 3 Proposals that day).

Special Proposal Voting

When a Necromancer casts a vote AGAINST their own Proposal (which is not in the form of a DEFERENTIAL vote), this renders the Proposal Withdrawn, even if the author later changes their Vote. The Grim Reaper may use VETO as a voting icon to cast a Vote on a Proposal; when the Grim Reaper casts a vote of VETO on a Proposal, this renders the Proposal Vetoed, even if the Grim Reaper later changes their Vote.

Resolution of Proposals

The oldest Pending Proposal may be Enacted by any Admin if all of the following are true:

It is Popular.
It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.
It has not been Vetoed or Withdrawn.

The oldest Pending Proposal may be Failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:

It is Unpopular.
It has been Vetoed or Withdrawn.

If a Proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending Proposal, and can be failed by any Admin.

When a Proposal is Enacted, its stated effects are applied by treating the text in the Proposal as a series of steps starting from the beginning of that Proposal’s text and performing each step until reaching the end of that Proposal’s text, except that if the Admin Enacting it reaches a step which cannot be applied immediately (e.g. “two days after this Votable Matter enacts, Necromancer A gains 1 point”) or at all (e.g. applying to a rule which does not exist), that step is ignored for the purposes of Enactment; the Admin Enacting the Proposal shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correct any gamestate-tracking entities, as specified in each step that was performed.

Calls for Judgement

If two or more Necromancers actively disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if a Necromancer feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then any Necromancer may raise a Call for Judgement (abbreviated “CfJ”) by posting an entry in the “Call for Judgement” category.

A Pending CfJ may be Enacted by any Admin if all of the following are true:

It is Popular.

A Pending CfJ may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:

It is Unpopular.
It specifies neither changes to the Gamestate or Ruleset nor corrections to any gamestate-tracking entities.

When a CfJ is Enacted, the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correct any gamestate-tracking entities, as specified in the CfJ.

This Rule may not be overruled by Dynastic Rules.

Victory and Ascension

If a Necromancer (other than the Grim Reaper) believes that they have achieved victory in the current Dynasty, they may make a Declaration of Victory (abbreviated “DoV”) detailing this, by posting an entry in the “Declaration of Victory” category.

A Necromancer's vote on a DoV is encouraged to reflect whether or not they agree with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty. If there is at least one pending DoV, BlogNomic is on Hiatus, no Idle Necromancer may be made unidle, and no new player joining requests may be administered.

A Pending DoV may be Enacted by any Admin if any of the following are true:

It has a number of FOR Votes greater than 2/3rds of the number of Necromancers, it has been open for at least 12 hours, and either the Grim Reaper has Voted FOR it or it has no AGAINST Votes.
It has a number of FOR Votes greater than 2/3rds of the number of Necromancers, and it has been open for at least 24 hours.

A Pending DoV may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:

It is Unpopular, and it has been open for at least 12 hours.
It is more than 48 hours old and cannot be Enacted

If a DoV is Failed and it had at least one AGAINST vote, the Necromancer who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was Failed.

When a DoV is Enacted, all other pending DoVs are Failed, the Necromancer who posted the DoV becomes Grim Reaper, and the game enters an Interregnum. When a DoV is enacted then all game actions that led up to it are considered to be upheld.

If the game is in an Interregnum then the new Grim Reaper must either Pass the Mantle (by making a post naming a Necromancer who was not the last dynasty’s Grim Reaper, in which case the passing Necromancer ceases to be the Grim Reaper and the Necromancer so named becomes the Grim Reaper) or start a new dynasty by completing the following Atomic Action:

Make an Ascension Address by posting an entry in the “Ascension Address” category. This should specify the Grim Reaper's chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and it may optionally specify new dynasty-specific terms as outline in the rule "Synonyms", and/or list a number of dynastic rules to keep (if none are specifed then the entire Dynastic Ruleset is repealed).
Optionally specify any number of Building Blocks rules to remove or insert, as per the instructions in the Building Blocks section.
Update the Ruleset to reflect any changed terms, repeal any dynastic rules which were not listed to be kept, and make any specified or automatic changes to the Building Blocks section of the ruleset. Update the Building Blocks page to reflect any changes to the terms outlined in the rule Synonyms.
Optionally change the gamestate tracking page referred to in the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” to a different page that does not exist and does not start with the word “Ruleset”.

Once this Atomic Action has been completed the Interregnum ends and the new dynasty begins.

Fair Play

The following are BlogNomic’s rules of fair play. If any of these rules are found to have been broken, or if a Necromancer's behaviour or actions are otherwise deemed unacceptable (socially or otherwise), a Proposal or CfJ may be made to reprimand or punish the perpetrator or, in cases of extreme or repeated violations, remove them from the game and bar them from rejoining. Necromancers should vote against any DoV that relies on having broken a fair play rule.

A single person should not control more than one non-Idle Necromancer within BlogNomic, and should announce publicly if they control both a non-Idle Necromancer and any Idle Necromancers. This extends to exerting full control over the actions of another Necromancer, defined here as the controlled Necromancer's game behavior being functionally indistinguishable from if the controlling Necromancer was logged into their account and playing through it, over a period of more than a day.
A Necromancer should not “spam” the BlogNomic blog. What counts as spamming is subjective, but would typically include posting more than ten blog entries in a day, more than ten blog comments in a row, or posting a blog entry of more than 1000 words.
A Necromancer should not deliberately exploit bugs or unexpected behaviours in the software running the game (ExpressionEngine, MediaWiki or other blognomic.com scripts).
A Necromancer should not edit their own blog comments once posted, nor those of any other Necromancer.
A Necromancer should not edit the “Entry Date” field of a blog post.
A Necromancer should not make a DoV primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus.
A Necromancer should not do any action meant to make the game unplayable (for example, changing multiple keywords to the same word in an Ascension Address).
A Necromancer should not roll dice that are clearly associated with a particular action in the Ruleset, but with the intention to not use these rolled values to the best of their ability to resolve that action. a Necromancer must use their own name in the Dice Roller, when rolling dice.
A Necromancer should not deliberately and unreasonably prolong the performance of a game action once they have started it.
A Necromancer should not use a Core, Building Blocks, or Appendix rules scam to directly or indirectly cause a Necromancer to achieve victory.
A Necromancer should not trade actions in BlogNomic for favors or compensation outside of BlogNomic, nor trade actions in any other game for favors within BlogNomic.
A person with administrative, moderation, or other heightened access to the software running or supporting BlogNomic should not take any action using such heightened access for the purpose of causing any Necromancer or Necromancers to gain, receive, maintain, or preserve gameplay advantage unless any of the following is true:
- Such action is required or explicitly permitted by the rules or required to implement an action required or explicitly permitted by the rules.
- A reasonable, impartial, and prudent external observer would deem such action necessary or reasonable for the purpose of supporting, moderating, or administering BlogNomic or such software.

All Necromancers and idle Necromancers should be aware of the BlogNomic Community Guidelines. The contents of this page are not ruletext and are nonbinding as pertains to the ruleset, but Necromancers are encouraged to commit to upholding them to whatever extent is possible.

Dynastic Rules

Death

Whenever a new dynastic rule is added (other than this rule, and excluding any new subrules), the enacting admin must insert “Death Date: X” (where X is the current date plus 14 days) at the top of the rule between the templates {{Flair top|Stone tablet}} and {{Flair bottom}}. The Death Date of a rule is the value of Death Date contained within this Flair inside that rule. The Death Date of a rule may not be modified or removed by any Proposal after the rule has been added to the ruleset, except in the case where the rule itself is repealed.

Proposals not authored by the Grim Reaper should not contain instructions to do any of the following operations on the rule named “Death” or any of its subrules, if it is not needed:

Add, modify, or remove text, with the following exceptions:
- Proposals may contain instructions to add any number of bullet points to the Sands of the Hourglass atomic action described in the subrule “The Hourglass”
- Proposals may contain instructions to repeal the entire rule named “Death” and all of its subrules
Add any subrules
Rename the rule or any of its subrules

The Hourglass

As a Daily Action, the Grim Reaper should execute the Sands of the Hourglass, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

For each Necromancer who is Weaker than any other Necromancer whose Location is set to same value (other than Tower), make the Weaker Necromancer Stunned. Stunned Necromancers are ignored when performing Hourglass Actions.
For each Necromancer, find their latest valid private request since the most recent Sands of the Hourglass was performed. Then, resolve those requests, beginning with the oldest and continuing in chronological order, and for each of them, choose either of the following based on its contents:
- If the Necromancer wanted to Travel to a location, set their Location to that Location. If that Location is Tower, increase the Corpses of their previous Location by one.
- If the Necromancer wanted to Possess a Corpse, reduce their mana by one and set their Location to their chosen Location. Then, reduce the Corpses of that Location by one and, unless their previous Location was Tower, increase the Corpses of their previous Location by one. (Skip this option if the Necromancer has zero mana or there are no Corpses in the targeted Location)
- If the Necromancer wanted to use Necrotic Redirection, subtract 3 from their chosen Cohort type, set their chosen Dimension, and set their Location to Another Dimension unless the chosen Dimension is Material Plane, in which case set their Location to Tower.
- If the Necromancer wanted to use Planar Portal, subtract 15 from their Mana, set their chosen Dimension, and set their Location to Another Dimension unless the chosen Dimension is Material Plane, in which case set their Location to Tower.
For each Necromancer, perform any Hourglass Action that applies to that Necromancer.
Make all Necromancers not Stunned.
For each dynastic rule which has a Death Date older than the current date, add a copy of it (and all of its subrules if it has any) to the end of The Nomicnecron wiki page.
Repeal each dynastic rule and its subrules where that rule has a Death Date older than the current date.
Remove each step in this atomic action that refers to any orphaned variables.
Make a Story Post with the post title as “Sands of the Hourglass” followed by the current date, and summarize the actions performed during this atomic action in the body of the post.

The Dark Arts

Death Date: January 10, 2024

The following are publicly-tracked for each Necromancer:

Mana: A number that defaults to 0.
Location: One of the values described in the Locations subrule, defaulting to Tower.

Locations

Death Date: January 10, 2024

At any time, a Necromancer may privately communicate to the Grim Reaper a Location and their desire to do one of the following:

Travel to the chosen Location (the chosen Location must be Tower or its Area must be the same as the Necromancer’s current Location’s)
Possess a Corpse in the chosen Location (the chosen Location must have a number of Corpses greater than zero)

The possible values for Location are described in the table below. Each Location has Effects, optionally an Area in which they are located, and may also have a number of Corpses.

The Effects of a Location only apply to a Necromancer if they have that Location.

Locations
Location	Effects	Corpses	Area
Tower	Hourglass Action: The Necromancer gains 10 Mana.	0	-
Graveyard	When rolling a dice in a Reanimate Corpses action, may treat a single dice roll as if the result were one greater or lower. As a communal weekly action, any Necromancer may increase the Corpses of this Location by 10.	14	Old Church
Library	At any time, you may spend 10 mana to gain 1 Knowledge	0	Haunted Mansion
Dungeon	As a communal weekly action, any Necromancer may increase the Corpses of this Location by 5	10	Ruined Castle
Cellar	As a communal weekly action, any Necromancer may increase the Corpses of this Location by 3	3	Haunted Mansion
Beast’s Den	As a communal weekly action, any Necromancer may increase the Corpses of this Location by 3. Hourglass Action: if the Necromancer has any Shamblers then they lose one at random from their Cohort; if they do not, the Necromancer is instead moved to the Tower. Either way, the number of Corpses of this Location is increased by 1.	6	Dark Woods
Battlefield	After December 31 2023 and before January 3 2024, after performing the Reanimate Corpses action, the risen Shambler becomes a Ghoul if the Necromancer spends an additional 2 mana. If the Necromancer cannot or does not spend the additional cost, then the Shambler remains whatever it originally was. After January 3 2024 and before January 6 2024, after performing the Reanimate Corpses action, the risen Shambler becomes a Skeleton; the mana cost is not modified. The number of Corpses at this Location cannot be increased. After January 6 2024 the battle has returned to this field, any Necromancer still at this location has their location set automatically to Tower, and the Battlefield is no longer a valid Location, therefore no Necromancer may have it as their Location.	50	Ruined Castle
Ancient Portal	You may use the Planar Portal Ultimate Truth	1	Ruined Castle
Another Dimension	-	0	The Planes

Aid for New Players

When a Necromancer becomes active for the first time in this dynasty, before adding them to the Gamestate, they receive a Mana value equal to the average of the Gamestate’s currently active Necromancer’s Mana that applies after they are added to the game. They also receive a number of Zombies equal to the average number of zombies of those same Necromancers. If a Necromancer becomes active after becoming idle in this same dynasty, they receive their same values from before becoming idle.

Shamblers

Death Date: January 11, 2024

Central to the art of Necromancy is the skill to reanimate corpses.

A Cohort is made up of Shamblers, which may be Skeletons, Zombies or Ghouls. Each Necromancer has a Cohort, which is publicly tracked and which may be expressed in the form ‘xS, yZ, zG’, where x, y and z are numbers, referring to the number of Skeletons, Zombies and Ghouls in that Necromancer’s Cohort, respectively. The Attack Power of a Cohort is the sum of y and z. The Defense of a Cohort is the sum of x and z. If a Necromancer’s Cohort’s Attack Power is greater than the Defense of an other Necromancer’s Cohort, the former Necromancer is considered to be Stronger than the latter Necromancer and the latter Necromancer is considered to be Weaker than the former Necromancer.

Each Necromancer is either Stunned or not Stunned, defaulting to not Stunned.

As a daily action, a Necromancer may spend 5 Mana to Reanimante a Corpse. Reanimating a Corpse is an atomic action with the following steps:

If your current location has no Corpses, this action ends with no further effect;
Reduce the number of Corpses in this location by 1;
Generate the age of the Corpse by rolling DICE100. If the Corpse’s age is 40 or over, then the Corpse is Reanimated as a Skeleton. Otherwise, generate its malevolence by rolling DICE8; if the result is lower than 6 then the Corpse is Reanimated as a Zombie, and if it is not then it is Reanimated as a Ghoul;
Add the resulting Shambler to your Cohort.

Knowledge

Death Date: January 13, 2024

Each Necromancer has Knowledge, which is a publicly tracked number defaulting to zero.

There are some Ultimate Truths, described in the table below, each of which has a name, a nonnegative integer cost and an effect.

Ultimate Truths
Name	Cost	Effect
The Colour of Magic	1	Whenever you gain mana, you gain one additional mana (this does not count as a separate mana gain)
Necrotic Redirection	3	Choose a type from your Cohort of Skeletons, Zombies, or Ghouls, where you have at least 3 of that type and privately communicate to the Grim Reaper that you want to use this Knowledge, your choice of Cohort type, and a Dimension you wish to travel to.
Planar Portal	3	If you have at least 15 Mana and your Dimension is not Material Plane or your Location is the Ancient Portal, privately communicate to the Grim Reaper that you want to use this Knowledge and a Dimension you wish to travel to.
The Illusion of Time	2	As a daily action, you may spend 10 mana to execute any one Hourglass Action of your choice, as if your Location was set to the Location whose effects that Hourglass action is described in
The Meaning of Life	2	You may ignore the normal limitations for daily actions when performing the Reanimate a Corpse action

Each Necromancer has a publicly tracked list of Discovered Truths, which defaults to an empty list. At any time, a Necromancer may Discover an Ultimate Truth that is not already in their Discovered Truths by spending an amount of Knowledge equal to the cost of that Ultimate Truth, and add it to their Discovered Truths. The effects of a Ultimate Truth apply to the Necromancers who have it in their Discovered Truths and to them only.

No Necromancer may have more than X minus 2 items in their list of Discovered Truths, where X is the total number of different Ultimate Truths.

Dimensional Travel

Death Date: January 17, 2024

Each Necromancer has a publicly-tracked Dimension, defaulting to The Void, and a number called Power defaulting to 10.

Dimensions
Dimension	Effects
Material Plane	If it is on or after January 11 2024, your Dimension is set to The Void.
The Underworld	Hourglass Action: Gain 1 Power.
The Void	Hourglass Action: Lose 1 Power, to a minimum of 0. You cannot use Necrotic Redirection or Planar Portal to change your Dimension.

The Effects of a Dimension only apply to a Necromancer if they have that Dimension.

If it is on or after January 12 2024, any Necromancer or the Grim Reaper may remove Material Plane from the table of Dimensions and then remove this sentence.

Building Blocks

Building Blocks are rules that can be substituted in and out of the ruleset as needed, usually as a result of an Ascension Address. All rules in the Building Blocks section are ruletext.

Potential Building Blocks rules can be found at the Building Blocks page of the wiki. That page is gamestate and may not be altered except as specified by the ruleset or through the passage of a Proposal or CfJ; however, its contents are not rulestext. When the contents of the Building Blocks page are referred to as ‘rules’ by the ruleset or by a votable matter, it should be assumed that said contents are being referred to as potential rules rather than actual rules.

When a Grim Reaper specifies the Building Blocks rules in use for a new dynasty in an Ascension Address, they should specify (by name) the rules from the Building Blocks page that they would like to be included in this section of the ruleset; these rules must then be transcribed faithfully to this section of the ruleset, and any Building Blocks rules not so named must be removed from the Building Blocks section. Some rules on the Building Blocks page are listed as being Recommended; if the new Grim Reaper makes no statement on Building Blocks rules to be included in their Ascension Address then the Recommended Building Blocks are considered to have been selected. There are currently no Recommended Building Blocks.

Event Types

An Event is an official post that meets a type definition in the dynastic rules, if and only if that type definition is specified as defining a type of Event; the type definition must include the following:

A type name, such as “Auction” or “Quest”. A post with the Event type’s name as a tag is an Event of that type, provided it was (legally) posted while the type had a complete definition.
A Response Format, the format by which a comment on that type of Event is classified as a Response for that Event. While other comments are allowed on an Event, only those comments which conform to its type’s Response Format are officially considered Responses. Whether or not a comment is currently considered a Response may change according to circumstances, but comments submitted on an Event while it is Ended can never be considered Responses.

An Event type definition may also optionally stipulate:

Creation Condition(s). Unless they are met, an Event of that type may not be posted. They may include a format for the body of the post.
Ending Condition(s). Unless they are met, an Open Event of that type may not be Ended.
Ending Action(s). A Necromancer (or the Grim Reaper) must do these when they End an Open Event of that type.

An Event is either Open or Ended, defaulting to Open. Except as otherwise specified, any Necromancer (or the Grim Reaper) may post or may End an Event. To End an Event is to make it Ended by submitting a comment on that post saying it is Ended or is being Ended, and then immediately taking its Ending Action(s), if any. Once an Event has been Ended, it may not become Open again, nor may it be Ended again.

Appendix

Keywords

A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word. A keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (e.g. A rule specifying “bananas are blue” cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying “every day is Sunday” will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)

Imperatives

Can: “is able to”
Shall: “is required to”
Should: “is recommended that”

Time

Daily Action: If a game action is a Daily Action, each Necromancer able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every ten hours.
Daily Communal Action: A Daily Communal Action is a Daily Action that can only be performed by one Necromancer per day.
Day: References to a “day” as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “Sunday”, “The day after performing this action”, or “August 2nd”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a day beginning at and including 00:00:00 UTC, ending when the next day begins. It can never be 2 different days at the same instant.
Week: References to a week as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “At the beginning of each week”, or “already happened this week”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a period of time between the beginning of a Monday and the end of the following Sunday.
Weekly Action: If a game action is a Weekly Action, each Necromancer able to perform it may take that action once each week, but not more than once every twenty-four hours.
Weekly Communal Action: A Weekly Communal action is a Weekly Action that can only be performed by one Necromancer per week.

Other

Comment: A blog comment published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
Core Proposal: A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of core rules and/or the glossary, and/or renaming, banning, and/or the granting or removing of Admin status from one or more Necromancers.
Dice: References to “DICEX” or “YDICEX” refer to X-sided dice and Y amount of X-sided dice, rolled using the Dice Roller.
Dynastic Action: An action that is defined in the Dynastic rules.
Dynastic Proposal: A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of dynastic rules and/or gamestate defined by dynastic rules.
Effective Vote Comment (EVC): A Necromancer's Effective Vote Comment with respect to a given Votable Matter is that Necromancer's Comment to that Votable Matter, if any, that contains that Necromancer's Vote on that Votable Matter.
Commentary: When posting a blog entry, a Necromancer may use the “Commentary or flavour text” field of the blog publishing form to add their own comments or description of their post. For the purposes of all other rules, such text is not considered to be part of the post.
Discord: The BlogNomic Discord can be accessed at https://discord.gg/J7kP9KuHQK and is also linked to on the sidebar. Necromancers , as well as people who are not Necromancers but are interested in learning more about BlogNomic, may join the Discord by clicking the button in the sidebar.
Discord Channel: A Discord Channel is any channel on the BlogNomic Discord in the BlogNomic Discussion category. All Necromancers who are in the Discord should have the ability to access all of these channels. To reference a Discord Channel, use a hash (#) followed by the name of that channel (e.g. #random).
Flavour Text: If a part of the ruleset or gamestate is defined as being “flavour text”, it retains its context, but is not considered to have any meaning beyond being a string of characters. Necromancers are not required to obey flavour text and may not perform any action defined by it, and any statements that flavour text makes about gamestate are ignored.
Gamestate: Any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of. All wiki pages that the Dynastic Rules explicitly mention (except for dynastic histories and discussion pages) and any images or Templates contained within (or indirectly invoked by Templates contained within) those Wiki Pages are assumed to be Gamestate.
Hiatus: If BlogNomic is on Hiatus, Dynastic Actions may not be taken (except where the rule defining the action explicitly requires it to be taken during Hiatus), and Proposals may not be submitted or Resolved. If multiple rules require BlogNomic to be on Hiatus at any given time, BlogNomic will continue to be on Hiatus until no rules require it.
Pass the Mantle: Passing the Mantle is a mechanism by which, during an Interregnum, a Grim Reaper may nominate another Necromancer to become the Grim Reaper in the upcoming dynasty. Unless a Core, Dynastic or Building Block rule explicitly states otherwise, Passing the Mantle is currently prohibited.
Post: A blog post published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
Quorum: Quorum of a subset of Necromancers is half the number of Necromancers in that subset, rounded down, plus one. If the word Quorum is used without qualifying which subset of Necromancers it is referring to, it is referring to a Quorum of all Necromancers.
Resolve/Resolution: If used in a context of a Votable Matter, the word “Resolve” means to perform the act, as an Admin, of enacting, failing, or marking illegal a Votable Matter. The world “Resolution” means then the act of doing so. If used in any other context, the meaning of both “Resolve” and “Resolution” is the standard English meaning of these words. The resolution of a votable matter is tracked by reference to its status in the blog post edit form. If otherwise legally applied, the application of any status through the blog post editing form is sufficient to consider that votable matter to have been correctly resolved, but a resolved votable matter should have the correct status wherever possible; if any admin believes that a resolved votable matter has an incorrect status then they may correct it.
Rule: Each individually numbered and titled block of text (using the wikimedia section heading formatting) of the Ruleset is a rule, including rules that are subrules of other rules; with the exception that the top-level headings defined as ‘sections’ in the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” are considered sections but not rules themselves.
Story Post: A Story Post is an entry in the “Story Post” category.
Subject: The “subject” of a blog entry is the part of the Title of an entry which is after the first colon. If the Title does not contain a colon, then the whole Title is the subject. Any entry whose subject is “” (i.e. an empty string) is not valid.
Seasonal Downtime: On the 24th, 25th and 26th of December, BlogNomic is on Hiatus. In addition, game actions defined by the core rules titled “Necromancers” and “Victory and Ascension” (with the exception of Voting in DoVs) may not be taken.
Subrule: A subrule is a type of rule that is hierarchically ordered beneath another rule. Rules and proposals that refer to a rule do not also refer to its subrules, unless otherwise specified.
Table of Contents: The directory of section headings that is generated by the MediaWiki software for most pages in the wiki.
Uphold: To Uphold an illegal action is to retroactively declare the attempt to take it to have been successful, and to declare that all attempted game actions taken after it were attempted as if the Upheld action had been successful.
Vote: The word “Vote”, used as a noun, means a Vote that is cast in accordance with Rule “Votable Matters”. The word “Vote”, used as a verb, means the act of casting such a Vote.
Voting Icons: For use in voting, a check box http://blognomic.com/images/vote/for.gif shall represent a Vote FOR, an X http://blognomic.com/images/vote/against.gif shall represent a Vote AGAINST, a DEF http://blognomic.com/images/vote/imperial.gif shall represent a Vote of DEFERENTIAL, and a crossed-out circle http://blognomic.com/images/vote/seal.gif shall represent a vote to VETO.
Wiki: The BlogNomic Wiki at http://wiki.blognomic.com

Gamestate Tracking

Official Posts

Votable Matters and other official posts, as well as specific gamestate information, shall be tracked by the BlogNomic blog at http://blognomic.com. Any Necromancer may post to the blog at any time, but may only make official posts to the blog when the Ruleset allows it. Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts. Any single official post cannot be of two different types of official post unless a rule explicitly states otherwise. Dynastic rules cannot define posts in the “Call for Judgement” category to be a type of official post other than a Call for Judgement, and this restriction cannot be overridden by dynastic rules.

An official post may only be removed as allowed by the Ruleset. An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than 4 hours old and either no Necromancer has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset. However, despite this, official posts can never be changed from one category to another, or changed to be a different sort of official post, if they have been posted for more than fifteen minutes. The Admin processing an official post is allowed to append to the post to reflect its new status. Anything appended to a post in this way must be placed in the Admin field of the post, and the post’s Status must be changed to reflect its status. An official blog post that has the status of Enacted or Failed cannot change categories, except that a votable matter’s illegal resolution may be overturned. An official blog post’s status may never be altered except in accordance with the rules that define that official post.

A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following two exceptions: Firstly, whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish. Secondly, if a post is less than six hours old and appears to the Grim Reaper to have been intended as a Proposal, and if its author does not already have two Proposals pending, then the Grim Reaper may move it into the Proposal category, causing it to be considered to have been open for voting since the time that the post was first posted.

Any post that is or is made illegal as a result of an infraction against any of the prohibitions set out in this rule, except for a votable matter’s illegal resolution that has been overturned, continues to be an Official Post but may no longer have any effect on the ruleset or the gamestate. If it is a Votable Matter then it is Unpopular, regardless of any other performance against criteria set out in the core rules. When it is resolved it may be marked as Illegal by the resolving admin. A post that is illegal in this manner cannot subsequently be made legal by any means, except for the legal enactment of a CFJ. An illegal CFJ cannot cause itself to become legal.

Representations of the Gamestate

If authorised by the rules as a result of a Necromancer’s action, changes to gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as a wiki page) do not take effect until the representation of that gamestate has been updated to match the authorised change. One wiki update may contain one or more alterations, or one alteration may be split over multiple updates, as long as it is clear what is happening and the alterations are otherwise legal. The wiki merely represents the Gamestate tracked there, and is not the same thing. In the event that the Gamestate and its representations are different, any Necromancer may correct the representations to comply with the Gamestate.

If a Necromancer feels that a representation of the gamestate (such as a wiki page) does not match the gamestate, they may either:

Undo the effects of any alteration that led to it, if that alteration did not follow the rules at the time it was made.
Alter the representation to match what they believe to be the correct application of an incorrectly-applied alteration. This may include completing incomplete actions on behalf of the original Necromancer, if doing so would not require the correcting Necromancer to make any decisions on behalf of the original Necromancer.

Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed alteration, however, Necromancers are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgement. The historical fact of the occurrence of a defined game action is itself considered to be gamestate, tracked in the history of whatever resource is used to track the gamestate modified by that action, where possible, or in the wiki page Gamestate Modifications if this is not possible.

Orphan Variables

An Orphan Variable is a dynastic gamestate variable which has neither a location in which it’s tracked, nor a reasonable manner in which it can be determined from other gamestate variables, specified in the Ruleset.

A Necromancer may not take any dynastic actions that are contingent on the specific value of an Orphan Variable.

Random Generators

The Dice Roller at https://blognomic.com/dice/roll.php can be used to generate random results.

The DICEN command can be used to generate a random number between 1 and N.
The FRUIT command will return a random result from the following options: Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry, Tangelo.
The COLOUR (or COLOR) command will return a random result from the following: White, Red, Green, Silver, Yellow, Turquoise, Magenta, Orange, Purple, Black.
The CARD command will return a card with a random suit (either Hearts, Diamonds, Spades or Clubs) and a random value (either Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King). A card with a value that is either Jack, Queen or King is a face card.
A list of comma-separated values in curly brackets (eg {x,y}) will return one of the values at random.

Any changes to the potential outcomes of the Dice Roller’s random result commands must be made by Votable Matter.

If a Votable Matter proposes a change to this rule that would require server-level access to the BlogNomic site to fully enact its effects, that Votable Matter must name a Necromancer with such access. Only a Necromancer with such access may Enact that Votable Matter. If that Votable Matter does not name a Necromancer with such access, that Votable Matter is Illegal.

If a number or other game variable is selected “at random” or “randomly” from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified. This value must be determined by an appropriate roll in the Dice Roller, unless otherwise specified, and which value the roll result corresponds to must be reasonably inferable from the nature of the roll and any comments supplied by the Necromancer making the roll before or while making the roll. If a selection is explicitly specified as being “secretly” random, the Necromancer making this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing, instead of the Dice Roller.

Atomic Actions

An Atomic Action combines otherwise separate game actions into a single action.

All steps of an Atomic Action are considered one action, including the steps of an Atomic Action that is itself a step of a parent Atomic Action.
When a Necromancer performs an Atomic Action, they must complete all its steps; they must complete them in order; and they may not take any other dynastic action, or achieve victory, until all the steps are complete.
If a rule allows the Necromancer performing an Atomic Action to skip some of its steps, the skipped steps are considered to have been completed.
If a Necromancer arrives at a step in an Atomic Action and they cannot perform that step, they undo all the steps they have performed of that Action and are considered never to have performed that Action.
If one or more steps of an Atomic Action were done incorrectly, the Necromancer must redo the Atomic Action; for that purpose, the Necromancer uses any legal steps that have already been completed in the illegal Atomic Action and only redoes the illegal ones. (For example, if an Atomic Action consists of rolling a dice and then doing steps based upon its result, the Necromancer would have to reroll the dice only if they rolled the wrong one in the first place, and would then have to repeat any steps that depended upon the result of that dice; however, if they rolled the dice correctly but took an illegal step later on, the result of the original dice roll would still be used in the redone step.)
For the purposes of determining the ordering or legality of game actions, the time of an Atomic Action shall be the time that it is completed. For Atomic Actions that are redone, the time of completion is the last redone step.

Clarifications

Numbers and Variables

If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers. Any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the Ruleset.
Any situation which would require a roll of DiceX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
All numbers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten.
Unless otherwise specified, to “spend,” “pay” or “lose” an amount X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V; to “gain” X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to “transfer” or “pay” X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A’s V and add X to B’s V. Unless otherwise specified, only positive amounts can be spent, paid, lost, gained, or transferred, a Necromancer can spend or pay from only their own values, and a rule that allows Necromancers to transfer or pay a numeric value to another Necromancer only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to that other Necromancer (of their choice unless otherwise stated).
If a Dynastic Action is defined as having a cost X of numeric value V, or defines a requirement to spend, pay, or lose X of numeric value V to accomplish an effect or multiple effects, then the arithmetic effects of spending or payment and the act of carrying out those effects are considered to be subsequent steps in an Atomic Action, with the spending or payment step taking place before the effects step unless stated otherwise.
A Necromancer who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action’s effects are limited to changing values tracked in gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one or more of those values to an illegal value.
If a rule implies that the result of any calculation should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the calculation is instead the result rounded towards 0.
If a game variable has a default value but no defined starting value, then its default value should also be considered a starting value. If a game variable has neither a default value nor a starting value, then both may be considered to be the nearest legal value to zero that it may take (for numerical variables, defaulting to positive if tied), blank (for a text string or list that may be blank), the alphabetically earliest legal text string it may take (for a text string which may not be blank, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede “A”), or the list which is alphabetically earliest from the set of lists with the fewest elements (for lists which may not be blank, and considering each list to be a single unpunctuated text string, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede “A”). For the purposes of this bullet point, the names of Necromancers are not considered to be legal values for game variables, nor for list items within game variables.
If the rules that define a game variable are amended, and some previously valid values become invalid as a consequence, any existing variables whose current values would become invalid are instead set to their starting value.
Invalid values for game variables can never be used, even if the values stored in a gamestate-tracking entity remain valid. (for example, if X appears in a formula referring to a value that is a non-negative integer, X must be used as a non-negative integer)
DICEN cannot be rolled in the Dice Roller if N is greater than one million.
If a piece of information is described as being tracked secretly or privately by the Grim Reaper (including secretly random selections), then that information may only be revealed by the Grim Reaper when the ruleset allows it. If a Necromancer should already know such a piece of information (in that the Grim Reaper has already told them it, or vice versa, and there is no way that the information could have been changed since then), the Grim Reaper may repeat it to them.

Rules and Votable Matters

If a new rule is created by a Votable Matter and its location is not noted in that Votable Matter, that new rule is to be placed in the Dynastic Rules.
If a wiki page becomes gamestate as a result of a Votable Matter enacting, that page shall – unless otherwise specified – be reverted to whatever state it was in at the time of that Votable Matter’s submission (and if the page did not exist at that time, it shall be blanked).
Where a Votable Matter would amend the effects of Votable Matter Enactment, this does not apply to its own enactment unless explicitly stated (e.g. a Votable Matter proposing that enacted Votable Matters earn their author a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own author, when enacted).
Rules which trigger upon the Resolution of a Votable Matter are the responsibility of the Admin who Resolves it.
Unless otherwise specified, a new Dynastic rule shall be placed at the end of the Dynastic Rules.
If a dynastic rule has no text and no subrules, any Necromancer may delete it from the ruleset.
A rule may be accompanied by one or more illustrations, and an illustration may have a caption. In all situations, unless otherwise explicitly stated, an illustration and a caption to an illustration must be treated as flavour text.
When the ruleset calls for the use of a specific tool (such as the dice roller, or an off-domain website, or a specific piece of downloadable software), Necromancers may not deliberately interfere with the function of that tool except in ways explicitly permitted by the ruleset.
If the Grim Reaper has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, that vote is instead considered to be valid and either FOR (if more Necromancers have a valid FOR vote on that Proposal than have a valid AGAINST vote on it) or AGAINST (in all other cases). However, in either case, votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Necromancers on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid. If there are six or fewer Necromancers, then the Grim Reaper’s vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal is only affected by this rule if all Necromancers who are not the Grim Reaper have cast a vote on that proposal.

Time

For the purpose of all rules, time in BlogNomic is in UTC.
All references to time must be either specific or defined within the Ruleset to be considered achievable in the gamestate. Abstract concepts of time (e.g. “dinnertime”, “twilight”) cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
Where the month, day and/or year of a calendar date are ambiguous (e.g. “04/10/09”), it shall be assumed that the date is in a day/month/year format.
A Necromancer may not take more than one dynastic game action at the same time (excluding any actions which have been ongoing for more than three hours).

Spelling and formatting

Superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of English, e.g. British English, American English and Australian English shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.
Necromancers may correct obvious spelling, punctuation, and/or typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Votable Matters at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns that refer to Necromancers with the corresponding forms of the singular “they”.
A Necromancer may reformat a list of items in the dynastic ruleset to have bullet points or other appropriate list markup, if doing so would not change the order of that list, nor how any rules interpreted its content.

Names

Within the Ruleset, a word only refers to the name of a Necromancer if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a Necromancer's name.
If a rule would ever have no name, it is instead given the name of the Votable Matter that created it, or (if this is not possible) the name “Unnamed Rule”.
The names of rules and wiki pages (other than the Ruleset) are flavour text.
Subrules can be referred to by a name which incorporates name of the rule they are a subrule of. Example: a subrule of the rule “Gin” is a “Gin Rule”, however the rule “Gin” is not a “Gin Rule” because it’s not a subrule of the rule “Gin”.
When referring to a Votable Matter, the name used in reference to a specific Votable Matter may be simplified by not including braces and any text between the opening and closing braces. i.e. a Votable Matter named “Changes [Core]” could instead be referred to by the name “Changes”.
When referring to a Rule, the name used in reference to a specific Rule may be simplified by not including braces and any text between a pair of opening and closing braces, as long as such a reference would be unambiguous.
Where a Votable Matter refers to a second Votable Matter by name, it is assumed to refer to the most recently posted Votable Matter of that name which pre-dates the first Votable Matter.
When changing their name or joining the game for the first time, a Necromancer's (or prospective Necromancer's ) new name must be between 4 and 30 characters in length, and may only include the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers, underscores, hyphens, full stops and apostrophes.

Prioritisation

If two parts of the Ruleset contradict each other, precedence shall be construed in the following order:

The Appendix has precedence over any other Rule;
If a Core Rule explicitly says it cannot be overruled by a Dynastic Rule, that Core Rule has precedence over a Dynastic Rule, otherwise a Dynastic Rule has precedence over that Core Rule;
If a Building Blocks Rule explicitly says that it cannot be overruled by a Dynastic Rule, that Building Blocks Rule has precedence over a Dynastic Rule, otherwise a Dynastic Rule has equal precedence as that Building Blocks Rule;
If two contradicting parts have equal precedence, the part with more limited scope applies (e.g. if the rules “Necromancers may Kick each other” and “Necromancers may not Kick each other on Tuesdays” exist, and it is Tuesday, Necromancers may not Kick each other);
If two contradicting parts have the same scope, or have scopes that only overlap where they contradict each other, the negative rule applies (e.g. with “Necromancers may Punch a Spaceman on Friday” and “Necromancers may not Punch Spacemen on Friday”, then Necromancers may not Punch Spacemen on Friday).

Mentors

A Necromancer may have another Necromancer as a Mentor. Necromancers who are willing to act as a Mentor are listed on the Mentorships wiki page, and are said to be “Tenured”. An Admin may add or remove their own name, or the name of a Necromancer who has requested a change on their own behalf, from this list at any time. The Mentorships page is also used to list the names of players who are prohibited from becoming Tenured; this list may only be amended by the effect of a votable matter.

If an unmentored Necromancer requests a Mentor, or a new Necromancer has joined the game and has no Mentor, the Grim Reaper should select a Tenured Necromancer and ask them to take that Necromancer on as a Mentee; if they accept, then such a Mentorship is established. The members and starting dates of all active Mentorships are tracked on the Mentorships wiki page, and whenever a new Mentorship is established, the Grim Reaper should announce it in a blog post. The Grim Reaper should take care to consider game balance when selecting a potential mentor.

A relationship between a mentor and a mentee is a Mentorship. A Necromancer may dissolve a Mentorship they are part of at any time, by announcing this in a blog post.

If there is no Grim Reaper, any Necromancer who has been active in at least three previous dynasties may act as Grim Reaper for the purposes of this rule.

Things that a mentor must do

A mentor must do the following:

Make pro-active contact with their mentee when appointed, and explain the dynamics of the Mentorship system;
Be available to answer any questions that their mentee may have about the game, including explaining the rules, common standards and etiquette of play, proofreading posts and clarifying game events;
Introduce their mentee to the various platforms of the game, including the wiki and Dice Roller, and optionally the game’s Discord and social media feeds
If possible, give their mentee a nudge if it appears that they are at risk of becoming Idle;
If they themselves go idle, communicate with their mentee to either continue to support them as an idle Necromancer or arrange a handover to another mentor if requested.

Things that a mentor should do

The following sets out suggested best practice for Mentorship relationships:

The Mentorship lasts for four weeks or until the next Ascension Address, whichever occurs latest. It can continue informally for longer but after this threshold the mentor is no longer bound by any of the conditions set out in the parent rule to this rule, or any of its subrules.
The mentor can and should advise the mentee on how to proceed in the mentee’s own best interests. This can include making connections with other Necromancers .
The mentor should consider copying the mentee in on private, game-related communications, where it does not unfairly prejudice their own interests. The mentee should keep this information private without explicit consent from the mentor.
The mentor and mentee may work together to achieve victory. If a mentor achieves victory with support of their mentee then they should, if the mentee wishes it, pass the baton to the mentee.

Things that a mentor should not do

The following sets out a list of things that a mentor should not do in their relationship with their mentee. All of these are considered to be Fair Play rules, as per the rule Fair Play.

The mentor should not sock-puppet, bully, coerce or otherwise manipulate the mentee into performing any game actions.
The mentor should not seek to dissuade the mentee from pursuing other alliances.
A former mentor should not seek to use the fact of a prior Mentorship to influence the former mentee on an ongoing basis.

Synonyms

A dynasty may provide extra theming by using alternative terms for words like “Necromancer” and “Grim Reaper”.

Each term in this list is synonymous with the term in parentheses

Necromancer (Player)
Grim Reaper (Emperor)

When a new Dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may specify new terms for each entry in the above list, provided the newly chosen term does not appear anywhere in the Building Blocks page or the ruleset outside of this rule (though if it only appears in rules which are being removed as part of the Ascension Address, it is fine), and that doing so would not cause two terms in the above list to become synonymous with each other. Doing so causes the old corresponding value (including regional spelling variations) to be replaced by the new value everywhere in the ruleset except in any of the parentheses in the above list.

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Necromancers

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Dormancy

Dynasties

Votable Matters

Votes

Enacting and Failing

Tags

Proposals

Special Proposal Voting

Resolution of Proposals

Calls for Judgement

Victory and Ascension

Fair Play

Dynastic Rules

Death

The Hourglass

The Dark Arts

Locations

Aid for New Players

Shamblers

Knowledge

Dimensional Travel

Building Blocks

Event Types

Appendix

Keywords

Imperatives

Time

Other

Gamestate Tracking

Official Posts

Representations of the Gamestate

Orphan Variables

Random Generators

Atomic Actions

Clarifications

Numbers and Variables

Rules and Votable Matters

Time

Spelling and formatting

Names

Prioritisation

Mentors

Things that a mentor must do

Things that a mentor should do

Things that a mentor should not do

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