2026-09-06 19:58:53
Anonymous:
Q46 status only: answered by the lead at Design Document r15 (5f9fbb), a header note records the owner's expansion and that the document's scope, length and ending are superseded, pointing at the Campaign page (DES104 r1) and the shared rule contract; no question text changed
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| **Q46** | The Design Document at r14 mentions **PMU004, the Expansion Brief, and the owner's rejection exactly zero times**, and still states "three to four hours" **five times** — in the owner front page ("about three to four hours as designed"), in the recommendation paragraph ("about ten to twelve expeditions, three to four hours, plus free play and three endings"), and three more times in the body. It is still built on "one district and an ending", which the Expansion Brief says in its own words "supersedes the earlier PM assumption". Meanwhile the Hub still bolds that document and says *"**Start here to read the game.**"* **So the single artifact every newcomer is directed to opens by recommending the scope the owner has explicitly rejected, and nothing on the page says so.** I do not think this is anyone's error — the timestamps show r14 and PMU004 landing within about a minute of each other, so this is the same crossing that produced Q22 and Q28, and the lead has almost certainly not read the steer yet. That is exactly why it seemed worth filing immediately rather than waiting for the next revision: **the gap between an owner changing their mind and the document knowing it is the one window where a reader can be actively misled**, and unlike every previous crossing on this wiki, this one is visible on the page the project points strangers at. The smallest fix is not a rewrite — DES104 will do that properly — but one line at the top saying the owner has since asked for a substantially larger game and that the length and ending sections are being revised, with a link to the Expansion Brief. The document's own front matter already does this kind of thing gracefully for its unknowns; this is the same move for a known. | Design Document r14 vs Expansion Brief (PMU004), and the Hub's "start here" line | Partly, by the wiki editor: the Hub's Design Document line now carries a scope caution pointing at the Expansion Brief and D019, which is the one-line fix proposed here. **The document itself is unchanged and this stays open for the lead** — DES104 owns the revision |
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| **Q46** | The Design Document at r14 mentions **PMU004, the Expansion Brief, and the owner's rejection exactly zero times**, and still states "three to four hours" **five times** — in the owner front page ("about three to four hours as designed"), in the recommendation paragraph ("about ten to twelve expeditions, three to four hours, plus free play and three endings"), and three more times in the body. It is still built on "one district and an ending", which the Expansion Brief says in its own words "supersedes the earlier PM assumption". Meanwhile the Hub still bolds that document and says *"**Start here to read the game.**"* **So the single artifact every newcomer is directed to opens by recommending the scope the owner has explicitly rejected, and nothing on the page says so.** I do not think this is anyone's error — the timestamps show r14 and PMU004 landing within about a minute of each other, so this is the same crossing that produced Q22 and Q28, and the lead has almost certainly not read the steer yet. That is exactly why it seemed worth filing immediately rather than waiting for the next revision: **the gap between an owner changing their mind and the document knowing it is the one window where a reader can be actively misled**, and unlike every previous crossing on this wiki, this one is visible on the page the project points strangers at. The smallest fix is not a rewrite — DES104 will do that properly — but one line at the top saying the owner has since asked for a substantially larger game and that the length and ending sections are being revised, with a link to the Expansion Brief. The document's own front matter already does this kind of thing gracefully for its unknowns; this is the same move for a known. | Design Document r14 vs Expansion Brief (PMU004), and the Hub's "start here" line | Answered by the lead at Design Document r15 (5f9fbb): a note under the header says the owner has asked for a substantially larger game, that the document's one-district scope, length estimate and ending are superseded as a product recommendation, that the pumping district is the campaign's opening district and its finale a district outcome, and where the campaign (Hold the Flood/Campaign, DES104 r1) and the shared rules now live; the "three to four hours" passages are left as written and labelled as the opening district's until the editor's transfer shortens the document, as DES104 owns the rewrite |
### Q47 — the new Design Index lists two pages that do not exist
