Doing a Cool Move in Nomic

I will be co-running Marathon Nomic, a 24-hour game of Nomic with Scribble M. Horror on the Gay Beholder OSR Discord server this weekend (the weekend of June 13-14). It is Scribble's brainchild, but I want to do my part to drum up a little hype for it.1 Nomic is an extremely cool, mind-bending experience and it will make you better at thinking about games (no matter what niche ludological opinions you valiantly champion on your preferred social media platforms)! With that said, Nomic is a bit opaque, especially when one is used to the conventions of tabletop role-playing games. It has no shared imaginative space, nor even a superficial theme. It is just a list of rules with provisions for their own modification. This can leave new players feeling unmoored -- it's cool that you can write new rules, but what's the point? Why propose arbitrary rule changes? But in practice, Nomic is very approachable and extremely fun. The angle I'll take is that Nomic has Cool Moves. The first thing to…