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game 15 host thread

Posted February 27, 2013 by white lancer

Feel free to do whatever planning you want here, Helius! If you want me to stick around to offer a second opinion on balancing and stuff, I can do that, but if not, I'll dip out and see you during the game. ;)

Feel free to make my role 'No Rank' when you're planning on working on stuff you'd rather I not see, since I'll be playing in your game.

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Ok, this is what I am thinking of doing... I'm not sure on the figuration yet, but I think this would make an interesting game. I'm going to take a look at the Host threads from previous games to help me figure out if this is going to work.

Town Roles:

Insane Cop
Psychiatrist

Third Party Roles:

Journalist
FBI Agent

Mafia:

Janitor
Godfather

February 27, 2013
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Helius

Also... how do we make that wonderful color within the paragraph?

Is it the <FONT COLOR="######">text text text text text</FONT>

February 27, 2013
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Helius

Oof, you probably shouldn't have mentioned the Insane Cop role while I was allowed here. That role only really works when the Town isn't aware it exists. :-/ Also, I would suggest at least one, probably two more Mafia members...or maybe you were just talking about the special roles they were going to have?

Font color uses [] and the first letter of [ r]whatever[ /r] color you want.

February 27, 2013
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white lancer

With most roles it wouldn't matter if I knew them beforehand. But the Insane Cop and variants are different. :-/

February 27, 2013
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white lancer

Well, I'm not entirely sure if I should have an insane cop or not... it severely handicaps the town if they remain insane.

So like that?

February 27, 2013
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Helius

Or like that?

February 27, 2013
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Helius

Night 0

Helius was working in his backyard when he noticed a curious tree branch that looked like a staff on the ground. It was black and shiny and had strange rune markings on it. He went to pick it up when out of the blue a tree root grabbed his hand and snapped it off of his body. He collapsed in agony and woke up a few minutes later to a stump of a hand. He was surprised that it wasn’t bleeding and he wasn’t dead. But the staff looking branch was still there. Not only was it still there, but the rune markings were glowing in a strange pattern.

Helius, being the curious type and completely ignoring the fact that he lost a hand, went and picked up the tree branch staff from the ground. To his surprise and utter terror, the branch began pulsing and he felt a pulling sensation on his body. He tried to drop the staff, but he could not.

“Oh, God! What have I done!?!?!?”

Helius was swallowed whole and his body was completely missing. He had entered the Forbidding.

The rest of the town woke up to find his house strangely empty and void of life. They shrugged it off until they found a note saying: “I’m going on a grand adventure. See you soon. <3 “ There was also a P.S. on the back of the note: “Oh, by the way… I have reason to believe that demons from the Forbidding are trying to get into our world. You may not know what the Forbidding is… but if you do, kudos!”

And Helius was right, there were demons who were trying to get from the Forbidding to this world, but they weren’t exactly… demons. They were Mafia members from the Big Apple, and they wanted to set up a new operation in our pleasant little town. They had moved in under the disguise of regular townies… and the time was right to claim the town, but would the town be so … willing?

Let’s meet our suspects:

February 27, 2013
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Helius

Special roles... I'm not sure if I like that balance or not, but it seems pretty fair. I can work around the you've seen it bit.

February 27, 2013
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Helius

I guess I should also ask... assign roles first or make posts first?

February 27, 2013
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Helius

I suppose the fact that there's a Psychiatrist might make it obvious that the Cop is potentially insane anyway. {:P} Which, actually, is something that you probably should address. When Yeano first introduced the Insane Cop and Psychiatrist, he also had an obviously insane role (the Lunatic) so that there would be an obvious reason for the Psychiatrist to exist. If there's nothing like that, people are likely just to assume that the Cop is Insane. And then he's just as effective as a normal Cop--we just reverse what he says.

Also, scratch what I said about adding two more Mafia members if you keep the roles like this. Generally I go by the rule that 1/3rd to 1/4th of the players should be Mafia, but if the Town doesn't have any very powerful roles it makes sense to lean towards fewer rather than more. One more Mafia would probably be good, but two would be overkill with this setup. Especially if the third-party players don't count as Town in the ratio (e.g. the Mafia wins if there are two of them, two Townies, and the Journalist left).

I'm assuming the Janitor can't hide the bodies of people the FBI Agent arrests. Also, if you want blue text, use [ c] (for cyan).

February 27, 2013
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white lancer

I guess I should also ask... assign roles first or make posts first?

I don't think it really matters. Just make sure to put the roles into the 'Mafia Roles' section so you can make the posts role-specific.

Also, sorry for not IMing you back on AIM. My phone was elsewhere.

February 27, 2013
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white lancer

So got my roles put in there to use, but the Cop isn't checked for posting or voting in the main thread.

Does the post ID # change with the rounds?

February 28, 2013
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Helius

And also... since I'm exploring the topic of posting, does the topic matter for specific areas?

So when I make the Mafia post, do I have to make it a Mafia topic for the Mafia to see the post?

February 28, 2013
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Helius

And main thread...

February 28, 2013
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Helius

If the Cop isn't checked for posting and voting, he's basically not playing--it'll be like he's Silenced every single round.

And yeah, the post ID # changes every round (or every time you make a new post for the main thread). You can find it at the end of the URL:
http://168.144.87.33/~alestan/view.php?post=74365
74365 is the post ID for the Host thread. Make sure you remember to change the round number each time, too, because otherwise the votes will be all screwed up.

When you're making the main thread, don't select any of the role options. For every other thread, select the appropriate role--that'll make it so the player with that role can view that thread, but no other player can.

February 28, 2013
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white lancer

I added Trever, Xhin, and Vandy to the player list (figured it was better if I did that, cause you'll lose access to the yeanopanel if you add players). Current roster:

1. `Roxas`
2. white lancer
3. White Thunder
4. Black Yoshi
5. MajorasMask9
6. Female Alpha Wolf
7. Count Dooku
8. Castrael
9. CtR Black
10. hezekiah
11. Jo Nathan
12. Feral
13. Redack
14. chiefsonny
15. Trever Leingod
16. Xhin
17. Vandy

You've...actually got a good number of players here. I'm a little jealous. ;) With this many people, I'd advise throwing in another special role or two (and definitely one more Mafia member, even if it's just a vanilla Mafioso).

March 1, 2013
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white lancer

I was just going to ask you on that... I figured I'd need to throw in some more roles.

March 1, 2013
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Helius

Yep! As it stands right now with three Mafia, the ratio will be 12-3-2, which is a really hard difference to make up. 11-4-2 (or maybe even 10-5-2, or 10-4-3, or whatever you want) would be much better, and another Town role or two would probably be appropriate. Which roles are totally up to you.

March 2, 2013
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white lancer

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