Alright, a very controversial set of rule changes have taken place... during the endgame...
To sum them up:
-Double lynches are no longer allowed during lylo.
-Forcing the game to end today, with no chance of a no lynch. If no one is lynched, everyone is presumeably killed and everyone loses.
Basically, this foils the guaranteed victory I've been plotting for weeks now. I'm not very happy about this, as you might very well imagine, and I've described it to Meph as a "jerk move".
I feel it's not in the GM's rights to spontaneously, arbitrarily, and drastically alter the rules to his game, especially when they're literally written in stone on the first post. I've been working very hard to use the rules to my every advantage to secure victory, and right when it's within grasp, Meph goes "Sorry, to make things interesting, I'm undoing all your work" and I don't like this, and I feel the rule changes should be rescinded.
Now, I can see where he's coming from, he wants to keep the game "interesting", because I've set up an unwinnable scenario for the dopps from behind the scenes. I set it up so at night, they simply cannot attack someone without being incriminated. Please keep in mind that I set up this situation exactly because of this conundrum for them, because, as a member of the town, it is basically impossible for the town to lose, as stipulated by the fact that under the previous rules, the game would have ended today, with a 100% chance of town victory, as the two suspects of being dopps could simply be coaxed into a double-lynch, and thus getting rid of the last dopp for certain.
Now, I can understand Meph's desire to make things "fair" but, to give a metaphor, this is as aggravating as a deus ex machina-style ending to an ordinarily great movie, so I'll suggest rules to place into future paranormal games, to prevent drawn out games.
-the dopps can only forego two consecutive kills, where on the third night they're forced to choose out of hunger. Kills from mad scientist's assassin bot are not factored into this.
-the game is given a definite end date, determined at the beginning, where, for example, it'll say that the game ends at the end of day 10, where all parties that haven't yet reached their goal lose automatically, with the exception of the survivor alien, and maybe the agent seeking alien.
-no more double lynches at lylo.
How about that? Because I feel that these rule changes are unfair, should be rescinded and that the gaps in the rules should be amended in future games, as opposed to immediately right in the middle of the game.
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