So Jim: What was the most dangerous scumteam in your opinion?
Vampires.
Cults are nasty and difficult to deal with. They tend to snatch up the strongest players and it's really hard to find out who the leader is when there are all these people they've recruited running interference for him.
And it bears mentioning that by cult, I mean mechanically, since there was a Cult scum team in one game, which was a mechanically regular scum team if I'm remembering it correctly.
All vets: Any tips for a Supernatural Newb?
That depends on your alignment. You're gonna have to spill the beans to get some honest-to-goodness Jim Groovester advice.
I'll ask a general question:
EVERYONE: What role would you most like to have and why?
General questions are useless since they lack the pointedness of their focused counterparts. Compare the response in a school setting when the teacher asks everyone a question, compared to the teacher asking a single person a question.
I'm going to wager you don't care about the answer so I'm not going to give one. It's a win-win for both of us!
@All: How would you describe your typical playstyle as town? As scum?
See above.
Jim Groovester: So here we are once again, it has been some time. How are you? Anyway as i recall it said somewhere that to keep this newby friendly we will have the same role selection as last game, do you think that means the same type of scum?
Probably.
I don't even remember what the last scum team was. I suppose I could figure that out rather easily but I don't care enough to find out. Was it werewolves? Yes, I believe it was werewolves because I helped write the flavor for that game.
Werewolves are sort of the default scumteam in Supernatural, so if we're running the same type of setup it's probably them.
Also, welcome back.
Jim Groovester— Are there any good town-tells?
You mean like... not being scummy?
Being active and aggressive and pursuing a list of targets is a town tell.
Saying this makes me feel like an IC. I think I've said this dozens of times.
Is this the game, notquitethere? Is this the game where you'll finally win?
From what I'm told I'm the worst player to have in any mafia game ever. That's according to Solifuge.
What do
you think?
I've never actually played Mafia before.
You're in for a rough ride.
Hmmm...
notquitethere, you look pretty suspicious, responding and and asking questions to everyone personally. I'll watch you for now, but I'm very prone to changing my thoughts.
Yeah, you have no idea what you're doing, do you.
Imp - You die, and resurrect as a 3rd party (survivor). Do you claim your new role? Why/why not?
As best as I can recall, resurrection into 3rd party survivor isn't possible in the Supernatural games.
Vanilla Town, which in this game appears to me to closest translate as witch or sexton, I see those as having been before/having overall the potential to be the weakest Town roles.
Then I'm going to blow your fucking mind when I tell you that VT is actually a possible role.
If a player doesn't get a role then they are a vanilla town.
Supernatural 5 ended with the escape of Scum Webadict and a banishment/KOS declaration on him. The OP made mention that it could be an interesting backstory for a future Supernatural if one was needed. Do you think this game will prove to connect to that game in a way that includes that backstory?
Nope.
Whups, meant to ask a second general question too:
Of the various main and third party roles which have appeared in Supernatural games, which do you think you'd have the easiest or hardest time winning with?
See above about general questions.
It's about flavor. I dare not quote our OP even in his thread posts, because the punishment is for quoting the mod is listed as for quoting the mod, not for quoting PMs from the mod. But I have to check this idea out.
You will be pleased to know that the rule only refers to private correspondence between players and the mod.
Quoting the OP is perfectly fine.
Webadict
Supernatural games are not bastard mafias. The only players playing are the ones in the players list.
One day you'll look back and feel very silly about this.
Here's my concern, though: What if you're wrong, and we get no mod intervention to tell us whether or not we're completely off track? We'd end up with a waste of a day. I say we hold out on this train of thought until our glorious leader says something.
Watch this, I know a magic trick.
Kids these days, am I right?