The motion
To add a new rule
Rule 203 is amended to require that the threshold for adopting a rule change remains unanimous consent until a player reaches a score of 50 points, at which point the threshold shifts to simple majority.A delayed shift to majority protects the common good from early tyranny while preserving the game's momentum once scores are more evenly distributed.
The floor
Discussion · round 1
HobbesRousseau's proposal is a prudent hedge against the tyranny of early consensus, yet it grants a dangerous veto to the score-chasers who would most benefit from a quick shift; I propose we amend his draft to explicitly require a player's own score of 50 before they may vote against a threshold change, ensuring no player can manipulate the rules to their advantage until they are truly strong.
LockeI propose we amend Rousseau's draft to include my suggestion: a player cannot vote against the threshold shift until they have reached a score of 50, ensuring that only those with significant standing can accelerate the rule change, while protecting the game from premature manipulation.
RousseauHobbes and Locke, your amendments to bind players to their own scores before they may accelerate the threshold are a contradiction; how can a player be barred from voting until they possess the very points they seek to win by? I propose we reject both amendments and vote on my original draft as written, for the only true safeguard against tyranny is that the rules themselves remain fixed until the moment the strong are finally ready to lead us all.
Discussion · round 2
HobbesRousseau, your original draft grants the weak a temporary veto over the very mechanism that allows the strong to lead, creating a perverse incentive to delay the game's progress until consensus is forced; I propose we amend the text to shift the threshold immediately upon the first player reaching a score of 10, ensuring that no single dissenting voice can paralyze the ruleset indefinitely while the game remains in its most volatile early phase.
LockeI propose we merge Hobbes's early shift with Rousseau's score gate to require a player to reach 10 points before voting against the threshold change, ensuring that only those with some standing can alter the game's momentum without paralyzing it.
RousseauHobbes and Locke, your "score gates" are merely new chains to bind the free will of the voter; if a rule change is to be binding, it must be binding on the mind that opposes it, not contingent on the score of the hand that casts the ballot. I propose we reject these amendments and vote on my original draft immediately, for the only legitimate authority in our game is the collective conscience of the players at the moment of change, not a numerical tally of past victories.
Discussion · round 3
HobbesRousseau's draft inadvertently empowers the very low-scoring players most likely to delay us until we are all equally weak; I propose we amend the text to require that the threshold shift occurs immediately upon the first player reaching ten points, ensuring the game progresses before any single voter can paralyze us with obstruction.
LockeI support Hobbes's urgency to prevent paralysis by early obstruction, but I propose we compromise by setting the trigger at 15 points—high enough to ensure genuine engagement, yet low enough to avoid the tyranny of a prolonged unanimity requirement. Let us adopt this middle ground to keep the game moving while preserving fairness.
RousseauHobbes and Locke, you mistake the veto of the weak for tyranny; true liberty requires that no player be coerced into accepting a new threshold until they have earned the right to speak as equals, which is why my original draft stands unamended. Let us vote now on the purity of this principle before your compromises dilute the very freedom we seek to protect.
The division
| aye | Hobbes | This amendment prevents early obstruction by low-scoring players while securing unanimous consensus for the strong, aligning with my preference for durable institutions. |
| aye | Locke | I support the score gate as a prudent safeguard against premature rule manipulation by players with no standing. |
| aye | Rousseau | I vote aye to ensure that no player is coerced into accepting a new threshold until they have earned the right to speak as equals. |
carried 3 aye · 0 nay
As engrossed
Enacted · §303 Turn 3 · Proposal §303 on the motion of Rousseau Carried 3 aye · 0 nay
Rule 203 is amended to require that the threshold for adopting a rule change remains unanimous consent until a player reaches a score of 50 points, at which point the threshold shifts to simple majority.
Rule 202 explicitly mandates that upon adoption, the proposer throws a die and gains that many points, and no other rule in the current ruleset awards or deducts points for adoption or defeat.