Editing Cycle 15/Ruleset (section)

== Actions ==
When defining a game action that can be performed by sending a message, the rules should specify a channel where the game action can be taken. If the rules enable performing an action by sending a message without providing for a specific channel, the action can be taken by sending a message in #game-actions. Similarly, if the rules provide that a game action can be taken without making any provision for any method to take that action, the action can be taken by sending a message in #game-actions.

Actions that are to be performed by sending a message are done by sending a message in the appropriate channel that clearly and unambiguously sets forth intent for the action to be taken.

Whenever a player performs an action that would modify the information that the players generally agree should be tracked, that player should make a reasonable effort to track the outcome of the action in the generally-agreed-upon applicable location.

=== Random Choices ===
A person shall not deliberately select random values for a rules-defined action without intending to use those values to the best of their ability to resolve that action.

If a person has selected some or all of the random values necessary to perform an action, they shall not discard the valid specifications in order to attempt a substantially similar action with the goal of obtaining different random values. If there is consensus that a preponderance of the evidence exists, or if a Judge ruling, not overturned, finds that a player has done such a thing, all attempts other than the first are deemed to be invalid and to not have affected the gamestate.

=== Dice Rolls ===
A rule that requires a selection of an NdK value, for non-negative integer N and positive integer K, is requiring the random selection of N rolls of a K-sided die.

* If not otherwise specified, this produces the sum of N rolls of a K-sided die; that is, the sum of N independent selections of integers from 1 to K, using a uniform random distribution. If N is zero, the sum is zero.

* If a rule requires an NdK dice roll with a target number x, this instead produces the number of N independent 1dK rolls that meet or exceed the target number and can be abbreviated as "x+". For example, if a rule requires a dice roll with a target number of 3, this can be abbreviated to "3+".

=== Progressive Actions ===
Where the rules define a "progressive action", a person authorized to take that action may take that action as described in this rule. For this purpose, the "appropriate channel" is the channel specified by the rule defining the action (defaulting to #game-actions).

An authorized person may "commence" (syn. "begin") the action by sending a message in the appropriate channel. A person who has done so may then make any required selections (including, potentially, random choices) required for the action in the appropriate channel.

Upon the person making all required selections (that is, immediately after they make the final required selection), the action is deemed to be performed if all of the following are true at that time:

* The time is in the same phase in which they commenced the action.
* They are authorized to perform the action.
* All other preconditions of the action specified in the rules are met.
* All provided selections are valid (as required by the defining rule).

Where a person has commenced a progressive action that requires a selection, whether random or not, for which the choices are defined (e.g. they do not depend on another yet-unmade selection) and for which the rules permit a single possible option, that option is immediately deemed to have been selected, even without explicit action of the person.