DIS: Overpowered Deputies

[Jason Cobb]

Looking at both Rule 2160 ("Deputisation") and Rule 2472 ("Office 
Incompatibilities"), it appears (to me) that a Player CAN (temporarily 
or not) deputise for an office that is incompatible with one that e 
already holds. Since Rule 2160 is of higher Power than the Rule 2472, a 
(non-temporary) deputy would be installed into the office, becoming 
Overpowered (e would likely be removed quickly, obviously). A temporary 
deputy would still be able to perform actions of an Office e otherwise 
could not hold.

I think an argument that requirement 2 of Rule 2160 stops it ("it would 
be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than by 
deputisation, if e held the office;") would not work, as the likely 
interpretation is "minimal hypothetical change to the gamestate to 
install deputy into the office", which would simply be installing em 
into the office, which Rule 2472 cannot prevent. The other requirements 
trivially do not help.

I think this is unlikely to be considered a severe vulnerability, but it 
appears to be a vulnerability to me.

Thoughts?

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Jason Cobb