My game 3 idea has victory conditions like this:You win when all remaining players are voting for you. You also win if any one of the players W, X, Y, Z has all the votes.Note, that voting determines the winner, not who dies (players are killed via one-shot powers or other mechanisms). Each player has a different set of potential co-winners. You don’t know who will win when you do. So while you may support player W, he doesn’t really know if it’s genuine support. Posting and personal messages would be unrestricted, so players would be able to form ad hoc alliances, but with unknown actual intentions.
In my game 2 idea, there are four teams: LG, CG, LE, CE. The Evil players will know each other, but not their L/C alignments. Each team can win independently, or all Good can win together, or all Evil, or (with great difficulty) all Lawful (all Chaotics cannot win together ). Oh, and to make it fun, every player has a transferable “magic item” that gives them special powers in addition to their class powers.
As you can see, I love exploring different team paradigms, beyond the typical Town vs Scum vs Other.
Interesting. It does have some of the same ideas as ours. If you want to, we might need a fourth mod (or even two mods) to be the gameplay PM organizer(s) in the beginning (the mod(s) would be welcome to other tasks, but keeping track of the PM’s will be a big effort until people start dying off). Non-gameplay related PM’s will go to me. (I.e. role questions, rules questions, reports of rule violatinos, etc.) If so, you’re welcome to do it rather than play.
It should be fun to watch or play. The game will be partially open, but how open hasn’t been determined yet.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Since much of the player strategizing will no doubt be happening behind the scenes between each other, the mods have to be kept in the loop, both so that all the spoiled know what going on and so the mods can make sure no one is actually violating any rules.
It’s the part of the setup I don’t like from an administration standpoint. It’ll be intense for the mods. The tradeoff is, there will be no scum board, mason boards, etc. and it should make for great intrigue and fun for the players.
The other option is that the behind-the-scenes PM’s be split between the mods based on the divisions of the players that will become apparent when the game starts. That might be fairer.
Well…we don’t actually have to monitor the PM’s if we don’t want to. I just think it would be more fun to know what is going on behind the scenes in terms of power brokering. We would only need to be copied on *certain *official PMs (if we wanted to make things easier on ourselves.)
I need an unbiased opinion from the peanut gallery. A player, I will not say who, has submitted a Night action, I won’t say what. Just now. At 7:27PM, or approximately 45 minutes after the clearly-stated deadline in place since the start of the game.
As I was running late, I received this message at the same time as the others, but it was clearly and admittedly late.
What do I do? I will state for the record that this decision will have an extremely significant effect on the outcome of the game. Won’t break the game either way, but the outcome will push the game firmly in one direction, or in the other.
Don’t do it. The rules are there for a reason and that player fucked up. Sucks to be him/her and to be on his/her team (as I am assuming I am) but thems the breaks.
If you had ended the Night on time it wouldn’t be an issue right? This is no different.
ETA: if you decide not to go the way pleo and I suggest, I want to change my action for Day 3 from Chucara to the zeriel PM I sent you and get the chance to post my results. (See what I mean?)
The player sent about fifty PMs in the Night. The player was going back and forth on a bunch of options, but explicitly stated that none of the PMs was meant to be an official decision. The player then got stuck at work, and was delayed delivering the final choice.
It sucks and I’m really sorry about it.
But I think you guys are right; the rules are the rules, and it would be enormously unfair to bend them selectively, especially given the magnitude of the proposed action.
Not to rub it in for player X or anything, but this is why it’s a good idea to send orders in early, but reserve the right to change your mind before the deadline.
And I am putting it public so that the next game I play it can be considered canon. Lynch the freaking lurkers. Not saying that it makes them scum, but it sure makes the game hard to watch. Apparently I could extend my shelf life if I just posted a couple of drive bys every now and then. Until someone “prod” votes you and then you pull a Nanook. I mean seriously Hal gets to skate, what, three days. And now Rapier pulls a Houdini. And all the focus is on the participants. I’d rather lose to players than let non participants smarm off with a win.
Seriously, even fluff is better than nothing. Of course, Pleo and I don’t see eye to eye on that one.
). Oh, and to make it fun, every player has a transferable “magic item” that gives them special powers in addition to their class powers.