Draft 311: Dueling

[Rye Coal]

As it stands there is no penalty for turning down the challenge.  Chalengee is given the option to accept - nothing happens until they accept. Rather than force the challengee into the challenge give them an out - say loose five points and the status change takes effect for not stepping up.  That way if there is an argument the challenger can't always circumvent the chalengee's argument by declaring the challenge. I like this as a method for settling the unsettleable but not as a method for circumventing logical process of argument (if you have a weaker case for instance).

The challengee shall select a player, and if the challenger disagrees with this choice, he loses a point and may make his own. If the challenger disagrees with that choice, he loses a point and may choose another.

ok my issue with this is that in the second sentance needs to be changed to ...

' If the challengee disagrees with the choice of the challenger, the challengee loses another point and may pick another player to be the adjucator.'

The pronoun 'he' really messes things up - makes it sould like the challenger will disagree with his own choice.


One more thing, should the point penalties actually make a player loose points if they have none to begin with? Thats kind of unfair to challenge a player with no points. Could we add a protection clause for players with no points? Add a trade off that you cant challenge if you have no points to prevent the reverse abuse.