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Sinitrena got stuck on a velcro wall,
One more thing I thought might be interesting to discuss: the Nurse role.
I think that with the current ruleset, the Nurse is the absolute MVP of the town team. The way we play now (which I confirmed with Sini during the game) is that the fact that a target has been successfully protected is fully revealed to all players, but without revealing the target's exact role or the Nurse's identity.
So in effect, the Nurse has the following "hidden" powers in addition to just protecting their target (and themselves, compared to the Bodyguard) from death:
* the Nurse makes the scum team completely waste one of their kills,
* the Nurse hides the role of the protected player from the scum team,
* the Nurse hides their own identity from the scum team,
* the Nurse proves the target's innocence to the town team.
Now, I have no idea if it makes the Nurse too strong, or if the balance is just about right if we want the town to sometimes win for a change. We surely need to play more games in this setup to get a better idea. But I wanted to share my thoughts on that as something to maybe look at during/after future sessions?
That's why I'm hesitant with this option and why I didn't use it in earlier rounds and why I call it a risk.The "locked votes" thing sounds very positive in both ending useless day phases early where things are a foregone conclusion and also an interesting window into the psychology of why someone would lock a vote and when they did so.Agreed! It's a very interesting concept. Imagine: "Oh damn, I'm now convinced that you were right to accuse X but alas, I cannot change my vote anymore! :<"
By the way, if someone is interested, nearly all kill methods were on me this time. Kastchey's only request was the feather boa in night 1. It's actually a lot more fun and challenging for me when you request stuff. I'd love a game where the bad side tries to make me write the most absurd and not fitting to the setting things as possible.Really? Oh, okay. I wasn't sure if you'd like some more input or if it interfered with your storytelling concept. That's definitely good to know.
It's very interesting when you share more insight about what's fun to you as the Game Master, too. This is an entirely different perspective!
QuoteBut if you want to play again, and it looks like some people are interested, let's talk a bit about the next setting as well. Where do you want to play? Somewhat isolated places make more sense, especially if we go with a more role-playing approach. For a purly tactical game, it doesn't matter so much, but would you even want story-telling then?I think everyone enjoys the storytelling aspect to some extent, and no one would want to ditch it entirely. I'm a huge fan of the concept of changing the setting each game. A cult of the Old Ones as the scum team could be nice. Or a game taking place in deep space (Battlestar Galactica's cylons vs humans come to mind, or that Trilby game by Yahtzee that's set on a spaceship). Or another go at Agatha Christie-ish setting, say Orient Express for a change? Or something fairly close to the original Werewolf game setting, but with a slight tweak, e.g. a setting similar to The Village (which wasn't a very good movie but is creepy enough and it fits the game).
BEST WRITING - I'm going with WHAM, with Sinitrena as a very close second. Both painted terrific pictures in my mind, but some editing lapses in Sinitrena's work broke the spell. Tickling a dozing? Er....
The second factor was alcohol.
By the way Sini, are you a fiction writer? If you're not, you should be.Agreed. I wish I could write that well.
(3) Players send their "diary entries" to the GM via PM and may change them and resend once every Night Phase. The latest version is the one the players will discover the following Day Phase. This means that the Psychic doesn't get to include that night's scan in their "last words" as the GM usually sends out night action PMs to the players just before opening the next Day Phase. The GM could change this by allowing time after PMs have been sent for players to compose new diary entries but this has been found to be a huge pain for the GM and also disadvantages players who live in wildly different time zones to the GM.
(4) Same as above but new diary entries can only be sent once per Day Phase. This makes the above issue about when intel PMs to the players should be sent by the GM during night phases completely moot.
(In all cases above a line-limit is often placed on how long a "last words" diary entry may be. I think about 5-10 lines was the usual limit depending on how much scrolling the GM was willing to do through his or her inbox.
an interesting alternative would be to change it into a "last words" post. Anybody who dies is allowed one last post in the thread and then no further communications with that person are allowed until the end of the game
This is exactly what I was going to suggest for future games. This is actually the way the game is most often played as long as the group maintains a code of honour about it.
People will be nervous to break the rule, however, because they also have to count on the person they contacted by PM to be dishonest as well and not tell the GM that someone is cheating.
I think we can count on an honest game pretty much. I doubt anyone really wants to shame themself over making a fun game less fun by cheating.
On a completely different note, it is interesting that the game structure required the good side to lynch one of their own to ensure a victory. What a strange situation! And interesting to learn that it can be beneficial to other roles than the fool to lynch themselves.It wasn't that we had to lynch one of our own to ensure a victory as much as it was that we had to lynch someone other than Josiah and VampireWombat. We thought that cat might have been the party host and by lynching someone we allowed for the odds to work in our favor.
Another rule I'd like to discuss, is that dead people were not allowed to post on the thread anymore but can still PM everybody. I found it kind of silly. Mandle PMed the entire group, which is exactly like posting in the thread except outsiders (and the host) can't enjoy what's happening. So, I think, either this rule should be cancelled, OR, an interesting alternative would be to change it into a "last words" post. Anybody who dies is allowed one last post in the thread and then no further communications with that person are allowed until the end of the game (this would shift the balance a bit for the benefit of the murderers though).
