Pollux was working on something like a “history of SDMB mafia” game, though I am not sure that’s what you mean.
I would be happy to look at your setup with you, BlaM. The ammount of work I am getting done at my office today, now that I am not in a game, is really fairly shocking; so I might sit out the next game or two anyway.
Yes, I really like that idea. I have only heard that he was working on it, but haven’t actually heard him say anything about it. The best part is, we can have fun and still keep things pretty mysterious. Like, if storyteller is a role, is he the godfather, since he’s famous for that? We could just as easily make him vanilla, or a mason, or detective or third party, with just a little bit of color. Need a miller? Maybe Dotchan can fill that role. However it’s sliced, there’s endless possibilities, and I think it might be as much fun to see it as a review of all the games we’ve played, as it would be to be in it.
Most of my ideas are pretty nebulous. I was throwing around an idea 6 months or so ago that would have had a closed voting system and would have been themed around the election (ie, anyone can say they’re voting for whatever, but would vote by secret ballot), but I was running into a lot of problems with just the tinkering I was doing (eg, the town would lose a lot of information by not being able to hold people accountable for votes), and ultimately didn’t have enough time to put it together. Plus, we had plenty of other gimmick games going on around that time, so I felt like it might have been overkill. OTOH, having that gimmick afforded me the opportunity to invent some roles that would only work with that sort of mechanic like vote changes and trackers, or ballot stuffers, and it would introduce some interesting strategy because people could lie about their votes, but if they’re the only one who does, it’d be pretty easy to know who did.
So, mostly, it’s been more that I have thought of some new roles, or I’m interested in seeing how certain roles might play with other ones. I have a couple that I’d definitely want to include, but I don’t want to mention them since they need to be a surprise. I want to have some nice twists to it, but I don’t want it be to the point where it’s questionable whether or not it’s really the same sort of game we’re use to playing.
And in other news, it’s about damn time that they started looking at JSexton, of course, they’re not looking at my arguments against him at all, but at least he’s being looked at.
Interesting…some of that sound like it might work for the game Hoopy, Rysto and myself are working up. (I know, I know we have been talking about it for forever and a day, but it’s comming along. We had made some good progress on it before Christmas and then we kind of stalled. I should go run those numbers I promised to put together.)
I am not a huge theme person myself, more a mechanics one. All of my games (except Firefly) have had the theme come from the mechanics and not the other way around. So I may or may not be helpful there, depending on what you are looking for. But I think that I have gotten fairly good at putting these things together and seeing what unusual roles will do to the game. Shoot me a PM if you are interested. I am happy to be a sounding board at the very least.
I have an idea for a game as well. Similarly, I’m more interested in the mechanics rather than the color. I plan to simulate the setup to get a better feel for the balance issues.
I kind of want to play a game, but even just watching the games develops has me frustrated.
Saach… you’re welcome to join my Game 
But it might frustrate you. Trying to balance it enough for **Story ** type players is hard enough, but You, I cannot do heh- because let’s face it- i love frustration. I revel in it. I hate when the town gets complacent, and I always love having new twists in there to as NAF i think it was put it- to revolutionize the game of Mafia. First came the lying townies, then the Shoes, then the Threat of PFKs and Dirty Masons… who knows what’s next? 
That said, I’m terrible at balancing games, but I LOVE to come up with odd mechanics and stuff. I threw some ideas out at **Storyteller **for this one, and I’m pleased to see some of them used, though you may not agree BlaM, dying so early
And since I dont have the time to PLAY in games anymore, I kinda like throwing out some ideas to help out the rest of you guys, as then I kinda wanna follow the game more and I’ll read along at least.
So if you ever need odd mechanics or random ideas/roles in the sense of abilities, feel free to ask me for that sort of thing (aka: Rooshian Style Mafia), but if you nice balanced games and structure, you’re better off asking Sach, Jsexton, or someone else who knows that sort of thing more.
So slightly off topic, my girlfriend’s idea of a fun Valentine’s Day is a home-cooked meal and to sit around and watch zombie movies.
So I just purchased the trilogy from Amazon (I’ve seen them all multiple times, but I’ve never owned them). We’re also going to watch Shaun of the Dead (which I haven’t seen, yet).
Ah, SotD is BRILLIANT.
Make sure you get to watch Hot fuzz too if you enjoyed this film
Yeah, I still have it sort of planned out and want to host it, but if I host it it’s going to be a bit dated as I haven’t really been able to pay attention to the last couple games here on the Dope and the general game I had planned out before the T2 game was even a twinkle in pedescribe’s eye. Blam, if you want to do it go ahead but I’ll probably sniffle a little and cry myself to sleep over all my lost ideas. 
Why don’t you do it together? Compromise!
Well my idea borders on Gastardly with some of the roles I’ve cooked up.
I think Blam could pull of Gastardly. I’d love to see him try…
I’ve seen Hot Fuzz already. It was very good. According to my girlfriend, though, SotD is better.
This was an excelent post by amrussel. I don’t know anyone’s alignment, but he is very right that brewha is displaying scum thought process in that post. Maybe not enough to convict him, yet, but maybe it will cause someone to go look closer at other things brewha has said.
Also, Hoopy. I love Hot Fuzz. I love it enough that I own a copy, but Shawn of the Dead is better than Hot Fuzz in almost every concievable way. It is like Monty Python and the Holy Grail compaired to the Meaning of Life. Both are good movies, but Holy Grail is really much better. (Maybe Life of Brian is the better comparison, but I am not sure that I see a *clearly *better movie between those two.)
Stay tuned, anyone who’s getting a little bored. I believe all hell will be breaking loose in the next little chunk of this game.
Not bored at all. Though a little bit of all hell breaking loose should be fun.
storyteller, any chance of posting the Night actions and any other interesting PM’s to the spoiler board?
I am curious to see what kinds of hell are going to occur. 
MHaye’s acceptance of Hal Briston’s charge against him regarding knowing that Hal Briston is an Alpha has me puzzled. MHaye states that he is always busy rereading the thread. If this is the case, then he should have come across Hal Briston’s Alpha claim by now. The conclusion I’m reaching is that MHaye is not re-reading the thread as he states he is. That would be an indicator that MHaye is scum.
The way I see it, is if MHaye were town, he would have brought up the discrepancy by now. My main problem with this thesis is that no one has pointed out the error. Surely someone is re-reading things?
Or not. I guess.
On a sidenote: I’ve simulated my game set-up and it is ready to go. It’s rather simple, with a twist or two. The only thing holding me back from doing it myself is I don’t like setting up off-board communication channels.
If someone wants to run a game, I have one that could be run quickly and painlessly. With twists! Did I mention the twists?
How about this, I will give you my offboard communications channels, but you run the game?
I don’t really want to run a game right now, but I have a board that isn’t getting much use at the moment that is yours if you want it.