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[notquitethere]

I'm in favour of giving players more agency over the roles they're playing: players already pick very disparate roles in BYORs, encouraging them to suggest how their submission be interpreted would seem to increase enjoyment: and players that want something completely random can just leave it entirely up to you.

[Jack A T]

I like how BYOR roles are already handled.  Limited player control already exists through the descriptions the players give with their submissions (I managed to get a medium through careful description of a Canadian Prime Minister back in BYOR 7, for instance), and that is much easier to balance than a bunch of different "I want to be a deadly investigator!" roles.

[webadict]

I like how BYOR roles are already handled.  Limited player control already exists through the descriptions the players give with their submissions (I managed to get a medium through careful description of a Canadian Prime Minister back in BYOR 7, for instance), and that is much easier to balance than a bunch of different "I want to be a deadly investigator!" roles.

See, if everyone wanted to be a deadly investigator, they would regret it.

[Toaster]

Poison cops everywhere!

[webadict]

Poison cops everywhere!

Psh. More like kill anyone that was Town on investigation.

[IronyOwl]

You are a Harsh But Fair Inquisitor. Every night, you may place live scorpions in someone's bed. If the subject is innocent, they will surely be slain by the vile creatures' venom and therefore exonerated. Should they be servants of darkness, however, they will surely find kinship with the wretched beasts, thereby revealing their true natures to you.

[Elephant Parade]

You are a Harsh But Fair Inquisitor. Every night, you may place live scorpions in someone's bed. If the subject is innocent, they will surely be slain by the vile creatures' venom and therefore exonerated. Should they be servants of darkness, however, they will surely find kinship with the wretched beasts, thereby revealing their true natures to you.

It's like the most horrible cop variant ever combined with the most horrible vigilante variant ever!

[Leafsnail]

It's actually not that much worse than a vigilante in most cases.

[Toaster]

The real question is what it does to third parties.

[notquitethere]

The real question is what it does to third parties.

The harsh answer would be nothing, thus increasing the likelihood of false positives.

[Persus13]

I kindof want to do a mafia game based on the cult so bad it's good movie, The Room. The scumteam would be Lisa and an ally, as they try to eliminate friends (players) of Johnny (the mod) until they win, causing Johnny to kill himself, or fail, causing Johnny to kill himself out of grief.

[zombie urist]

Problem is that flavor claims would instantly out the scum team.

I'm still thinking about Dangan Ronpa mafia. But it will be after NQT does CYOM II.

[4maskwolf]

And hopefully after the other two games in the queue as well.

[Leafsnail]

Problem is that flavor claims would instantly out the scum team.

You can avoid this by giving the scum a safeclaim.  In this case you'd leave one of Johnny's friends out of the game and tell Lisa which one that was.

[Jack A T]

I have a vague kingmaker variant idea.

Instead of having one kingmaker, everyone gets to help decide the king.  Each night, each player sends in one vote for whoever they want to be the king.  Players cannot vote for themselves.  The living player with the most votes is the king for the next day.  If there is a tie for first place, a king will be randomly selected from those tied.

The only information made public about the vote is the winner.  (Giving the relative places of the players without a full votecount may also work)

Game starts with a 48 hour lynchless and kingless Day 0, to give some basis for the Night 0 king decision.

Scum has a team nightkill, to be used Night 1 and on.


Any thoughts?