Proposal: Family Values

[ As said in comments to "Family, GNDT, Death", the GNDT can't really do what Truman thought it could. But I think we can do this without reworking the GNDT. And that it's probably healthier for the game if we do so; if family members are implemented as fake extra players, only Admin will be able to add and remove them.

It wouldn't be difficult to tell the GNDT to format the "Members" column to put line breaks between each Family Member, either, if we're worried about how it might look.

What do we think? ]

If a Rule called "Family" exists, replace it with the following. Otherwise, enact the following as a new Rule called "Family":-

Each Family may have a number of Family Members; each of them has a Forename, a Gender (Male or Female) and an Age (measured in Years).

Family Members may die - this is signified by their Age becoming "X".

Members of a family shall be stored in a GNDT column called "Members", as a list with each Member formatted as "Forename (Age/Gender)", with Gender as a single letter - a typical list might be "Hans (30/M), Gretchen (20/F)".

Reword "Death and Inheiritance" to (or enact it if it doesn't exist, as):-

If no Family has previously done so during the current day, any Family may mark the passage of time in the Empire by adding ten Years to the Age of every living Family Member.

If any Family Member would become older than 70 as a result of this, they die of natural causes - their Age becomes "X" instead.

If "Will You Marry Me?" passed, reword the "Family" rule to:-

Each Family may have a number of Family Members; each of them has a Forename, a Gender (Male or Female), an Age (measured in Years) and (optionally) a single Spouse.

Family Members may die - this is signified by their Age becoming "X".

Members of a family shall be stored in a GNDT field of 'Members', as a list with each Member formatted as "Forename (Age/Gender, married to Spouse)", with Gender as a single letter - a typical list might be "Hans (30/M, married to Gretchen), Gretchen (20/F, married to Hans), Gustav (10/M)".

...and reword the "Marriage" rule to:-

Family Members may marry.

No Family Member with an age less than 20 can be Married. A Family member's Spouse must be of the opposite gender, and Marriage must be reciprocal (that is, if Hans has Gretchen as his spouse, Gretchen must have Hans as hers).

Enacted 11 votes to 2 by Kevan, 2nd December. +15 to Kevan.