[lojban] [nomik] English explanation of our nomic attempt (it's really very simple)

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

OK, so, some of us are trying to play a Nomic game in Lojban.
Nomic, generally speaking, is a game where the basic gameplay is to
change the rules of the game, until some combination of rules claims
that someone has won.

Open Nomics tend to get incredibly complicated, and can sometimes
run for a very long time (years).  I don't much enjoy that, and
that's not what we're playing.

We're playing a simplified Nomic called Fantasy Rules Committee.

The main rules for FRC are here:

https://groups.google.com/group/frc-play/web/regular-ordinances-revised-oct-2007

but that makes them look a lot more complicated than they are;
here's the super-simplified version:

  There are real rules and fantasy rules; rounds consist of posting
  fantasy rules, which must all be consistent with each other; you
  can only post a fantasy rule if you have in the past week; at the
  beginning, everyone is considered to have posted; last one capable
  of posting wins

Here's the slightly less simplified version:

- there are real rules/ordinances/{ralju javni}; these are the
  actual rules of the game, and require a 2/3 majority to change

- there are also fantasy rules/{javni}/{draci javni}/{zdile javni};
  posting fantasy rules is how the game is played; they are often
  very silly; all fantasy rules that the judge believes do not
  contradict other fantasy rules go into force immediately upon
  adjudication

- a round starts with the judge (last round's winner) declaring a
  theme for the round; the person with the most score points for the
  previous round is the Wizard for the next round, but I've no idea
  what this actually does; I assume fantasy rules sometimes refer to
  it

- rounds consist of posting fantasy rules, which must all be
  consistent with each other, and should be consistent with the
  theme

- the judge declares if a rule is consistent, and awards it score
  points for style and consistency with the theme

- you can only post a fantasy rule if you have in the past week; at
  the beginning, everyone is considered to have posted

- the last person capable of posting wins; this means that each
  round continues until interest wears out, at which point people's
  weeks of allowed posting start expiring, and the last one who
  posted a rule when everyone else has expired wins

We're playing it mostly in Lojban.  People are welcome to translate
what they, or others, have said into English, though.

We haven't actually started a round, because we need a judge and a
theme.  As a random side comment, I thought a meta-Lojban theme
(like "must not contain abstractions") would be fun, but I don't
want to judge, as I want to participate.

-Robin

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