On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Aris Merchant wrote:
Rule 1551: "When a public document is ratified, rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the gamestate is modified to what it would be if, at the time the ratified document was published, the gamestate had been minimally modified to make the ratified document as true and accurate as possible. Such a modification cannot add inconsistencies between the gamestate and the rules, and it cannot include rule changes unless the ratified document explicitly and unambiguously recites either the changes or the resulting properties of the rule(s). If no such modification is possible, or multiple substantially distinct possible modifications would be equally appropriate, the ratification fails."
I suddenly notice that the rule has two different "modified", the "as if" modification and the actual present one that emulates it. And that it would be rather disastrous if the rule change prohibitions applied to the latter... but it's ambiguous enough that best interests of the game probably chooses the saner interpretation.
Greetings, Ørjan.
