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[GlyphGryph]

People seemed to have some interest in this, so I figured I'd get around to making the thread! Here's the chance for mod's to explain what goes through their heads when they create games, what factors they need to consider both mechanically and flavour-wise, where they draw their inspiration, and what sort of tea they take in the morning (black, golden dragon).

Mods, if you're willing to be poked and prodded, make a post. I'll include any information you want me too in this here post - at the very least, you should probably give me a list of games you've run for people to ask questions about!

Obviously, questions about in progress games will get you nowhere, and those running series may want to keep certain secrets close to their chest. But the point of this thread is to learn something about your mods and, just maybe, a little bit about how to run a successful game.

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GlyphGryph - Is always going to die in 40 days. So hurry the fuck up and play. Spoiler: Game List (click to show/hide) Beginners Mafia 7: The Pokemon Box Everyone is Pokemon! But not everyone is loyal to their master... perhaps if the traitors can be rooted out before the loyal pokemon are destroyed, the long absent master will finally return? My very first attempt at running a mafia game, and the only one that even approached vanilla. Quick Bastard The original. The only way to win is not to play - or to run the game, of course. Cybrid Mafia: Infiltrate//Seek//Destroy Based on the original Starsiege series (of which the more popular Tribe's game are a spinoff), follow the tail of deceit and panic as a group of Martian miners in an isolated outpost discover that the spectre of the Trojan Horse is no mere ghost tale. Quick Bastard Redux Didn't actually run. Terrible failure. Only sign-up was Org. Ask me what I did wrong. Listen as I tell you I've got no clue. alien zombies demons GAEM inspierd buy jon you are the demens it was theb est gaem ofall tiems. spaceship is bieng ataked by ailens. waht do U do!!?!?! grapple ur wepons and go!? Cybrid Mafia II - Welcome to Hell, the Glitches have Landed I remember absolutely nothing about this game. I don't even remember running a second one of these. Did I really run this? Anyways, I just skimmed it, have no idea what happens but it looks like lots of people died. Quick Bastard, Redux - Ressurection++ INTENSE STEEL A quick bastard with loose rules, a lynched mod, and a mysterious amulet. What could go wrong? THE THING FROM OUTSIDE Something knocks on the outside of the ship, and then things go to hell. Power is cut. The pilot is killed. And someone is not quite as they seem... Politibastard - Republicans need to root out liberal traitors in their party's nomination process. For the Party!

Toaster - Behold the power of TOAST! Spoiler: Noteworthy Game List (click to show/hide) [spoiler=Noteworthy Games] Mafia Salad:  My first "real" game.  Role light with some fun flavor;  I thought it went well and the players seemed to like it. Roguelike Mafia:  The first try of the Roguelike series.  Ended as a sweep win for scum thanks to a well-played defense by Jim. Roguelike Mafia 3:  Roguelike's third iteration.  Notable for having no Mafia- instead, there were two Mentors (think one-shot cult leader) that neither knew the other existed nor that there was no Mafia.  This was me trying out the suggestion that Roguelike should be focused more on third parties than a Mafia team. Bad Dudes Mafia:  An idea that apparently only I thought was interesting- the head of the Mafia gets to pick the size of the scum team.

Mephansteras

Webadict

So, let the questions begin!

If nothing else, I'll just use this thread to reminisce and tell tall tales of back in the day. You don't want that to happen.

[Orangebottle]

GlyphGryph:
What are you going to do next?

[GlyphGryph]

I'm going to retire. Again.

That, OR do something incredibly stupid and try to run another version of Politibastard, with another mod and 5 player games, with a double game that has crossover abilities and shit, one game for the Liberal nomination and another for the Conservative nomination.

Really, it's a terrible idea. But we'll see. I might end up swapping the idea out with some other sort of flavour, don't want it to get played out.

Temporarily Retiring is more likely, though - I can really only do so much of this before I burn out, and I'm almost there now.

If anyone ever wants to host one of my pretty big pile of "game setups", feel free to let me know though! God knows I make more of these things than I could ever use.

[Think0028]

I preemptively call one!

[Orangebottle]

I'm going to retire. Again.

Aw.

That, OR do something incredibly stupid and try to run another version of Politibastard, with another mod and 5 player games, with a double game that has crossover abilities and shit, one game for the Liberal nomination and another for the Conservative nomination.

Really, it's a terrible idea. But we'll see. I might end up swapping the idea out with some other sort of flavour, don't want it to get played out.

Actually, it sounds pretty awesome.

[Dariush]

That, OR do something incredibly stupid and try to run another version of Politibastard, with another mod and 5 player games, with a double game that has crossover abilities and shit, one game for the Liberal nomination and another for the Conservative nomination.

Oh god, not more politics. Please, anything but that. 

[Toaster]

I'm available for asking, though I don't claim to be a veteran.  Getting Web or Meph onboard would do you more.

[Darvi]

What makes me tick? A handful of finely crafted gears, which are just slightly incompatible with each other.

[GlyphGryph]

Toaster, any games you want me to list?

[Toaster]

You want a big list or just my favorites?

[webadict]

What makes me tick? A handful of finely crafted gears, which are just slightly incompatible with each other.

I go with a metronome.

Also me? For BYORs, I just go with a theme and try to make a few roles go with it. I think the one where I did the best job was the first BYOR, with the Robot Pirate Zombie Ninja Communist Alien. Too bad it never got used. Zai actually noticed this. If they want balancing, I honestly just try to make a myriad of roles, make sure no one can win through claiming, and then also make sure there is lots ot things to screw with people. For everything else? Who knows. It's pretty random.

And I just avoid flavor. Mostly because it gets tiring after a while, and I can't keep doing it. Someone should write it for me.

[GlyphGryph]

Toaster, any you feel might be interesting for people to read over, I suppose.

[Toaster]

Okay.

Spoiler: Noteworthy Games (click to show/hide)

Mafia Salad:  My first "real" game.  Role light with some fun flavor;  I thought it went well and the players seemed to like it.
Roguelike Mafia:  The first try of the Roguelike series.  Ended as a sweep win for scum thanks to a well-played defense by Jim.
Roguelike Mafia 3:  Roguelike's third iteration.  Notable for having no Mafia- instead, there were two Mentors (think one-shot cult leader) that neither knew the other existed nor that there was no Mafia.  This was me trying out the suggestion that Roguelike should be focused more on third parties than a Mafia team.
Bad Dudes Mafia:  An idea that apparently only I thought was interesting- the head of the Mafia gets to pick the size of the scum team.

RM2 was a broken joke, Kingmaker didn't really work, and Dethy Deluxe was poorly thought through.

[GlyphGryph]

What I think really would have been interesting for Bad Dudes is if you gave the Ninja Leader a bit more control - allow him to specifically recruit certain players but with a clear cost of some ability or another every time he did so.

That might have been overpowered, though.

I actually thought it was a pretty interesting hook, but the real problem was that only the ninja leader ever got to actually see it! To everyone else, it was just a normal mafia game.

So what do you consider more important - Flavour, mechanics, something else?

Obviously it's important to have all three, but what do you value most in your games?

[Toaster]

That was the catch-22:  I wanted to give the ninja team the advantage of surprise, but that advantage also would have increased the appeal of the game.


Since it didn't get much attention post-game, I'm guessing there isn't much support for another run.