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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #180 on: December 11, 2009, 12:12:18 am »

Dak's BYOR is getting pushed back until I know there's a lot of support for it.  I'm worried that the folks are gorged on BYOR games at the moment. 

As for holiday.. maybe I can think up something involving gifting.  Gotta let it spin in the head a little.
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« Reply #181 on: December 11, 2009, 12:37:57 am »

There's 3 ways I was thinking. You can either have Santa autogift the entire town once, or choose what to gift to whom from a list of gifts hand-made or randomly rolled. For added fun, every player gets to write a letter to Santa. If Santa dies before or during his Christmas run, no gifts for anyone and the setup is mountainous, except the possible survivor or sk. Yeah, Santa dying is supposed to be bad for the town, so we might want to just go ahead and make it an instant town-loss.

I think the game should start on the day of December 23rd. That way, when Santa does his Christmas Eve Night Gifting, he'll have had 2 days and a night-kill to figure the game out as much as possible.
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Hmm...I've never been a big fan of CCGs - I mean, I did and still do collect Pokemon cards, but I never got heavily into the battling and trading thing.

By definition that makes you a fan since you still buy them.

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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #182 on: December 11, 2009, 09:49:02 am »

Roles:
Santa
Mall Santas
Grinche
Ebenezer Scrooge

Local: a congregation among Mall Santas before Christmas turns into an uproar due to rumors of the real Santa among the group.  Real Santa?  But he doesn't exist!  What's next, the Grinch comes over to try to steal Christmas?

Mall Santa:  no power townie role, but is given a role that they 'want' to be i.e.

You are a Mall Santa.  Your biggest wish is to become a Doctor

May send a letter(PM) to any person asking Santa for that present. 

(real) Santa.

In two days, you make your grand trip to give gifts to everyone, but you don't know who is naughty or nice and even if you knew, you don't know what they really want.

First off, the N/N list.  Use your two days to learn about the others.  Then, on Christmas Night, you will make a list to mark who you think is naughty or nice.  Naughty people get coal (nothing) while Nice people get a present.

As far as what gifts to give, the others are sending letters around trying to reach you.  If you receive one you will give that person the give (role) they ask for.  Everyone else will be given a generic random one-shot gift.

Though try not to die.  If you do, everyone will morn you for the following day.  If you die before you can make your trip, well, then no one will be given anything!


Grinch (may be more than one)

The mafia (group).  At night you can kill a player.  Along with that, you learned that the real Santa is out there giving gifts and the others are trying to send Letters out.  Go ahead and join in.  The others have a specific role they want but you can ask for anything so long as its believable.  Maybe the fool will give you something.

But what if someone gives YOU a letter, thinking you're Santa.  Well , JOY!  You have two options:

- you can Watch and see what Santa gives them or
- you can Steal, thus taking whatever Santa gives and claiming it for yourself.

You get to use everything you Steal ON TOP OF YOUR MAFIAKILL (even all at once), but be wary: the poor sap won't see you but will know their gift was stolen, and may figure out who took it.

(yes, Steal Vig, and boom, double kills.)


Scrooge

You hate this Christmas mess but that ghost of Jacob Marley told you to come here.  He said specifically "Write at least one letter a day, but no more than two.  After the second day, another Ghost will appear to guide you."

You don't like ghosts but you don't like angry ghosts so you will follow.  Send one or two letters asking for (Rolename, i.e. Doctor).  Why?  You dare annoy a ghost with questions?  BAH! 

After two days, this may occur:

If only Mall Santas receive your letters, nothing will occur.  BAH!  Who cares about all this.  Well, the killings are something to care about.  So long as you Survive, that's all that matters. (Survivor)

If Santa receives a letter, the Ghost of Christmas Future will visit you.  Oh.. no.. you don't want it to end like this.  You can change!  You'll be good!  You'll even help Santa and the Mall workers save Christmas!  (pro-Town)

If Grinch receives a letter, the Ghost of Christmas Past will visit you.  Why, now you remember why you hated all this stuff in the first place.  Nevermind not caring, you wish Christmas ended RIGHT NOW!  Oh...you found someone who wants to help (join Mafia)

If Santa AND Grinch receive a letter, the Ghost of Christmas Present will visit you.  What's this?  This isn't about me.. this is showing what Christmas has really become, a hive of lowlifes killing each other in malls just to pick up a worthless overpriced toy for a spoiled brat!  Yes, you hated the whole Christmas thing but this..this is too much even for you.  Well, best way to solve it is to get rid of it all.  OF EVERYTHING! (SK.  Obtains a kill and gift if Santa deems him Nice.)



That's the roles.  You have a third party that may become a Survivor, Townie, Mafia, or SK.  You have a Santa that needs to decide who should get a gift or not (thus trying to give to townies and not give to scum).  You have a town that's trying to find Santa so they can get a permanent role without sending a letter to the mafia, and you have a mafia that wants letters so they can either play it safe and learn of what role people have or risk it and steal the role.

The role stealing is a gamble.  If I sent a letter to ONE person and found that I didn't get a gift (not even coal) then I know who one of the mafia is.  If I sent the letter out to many though, well.. then I'm not sure.  Still, being able to inspect one person (why care about being a cop?  Scrooge hunting) while roleblocking another WHILE KILLING...but the risk!  Watching is much safer.

The scrooge bit I like since it is somewhat chaotic.  :D

Btw, this wouldn't be a bastard so ALL of these rules will be known at the start.  The matter is the players trying to read each other and, thus, figure out who to send the letter to/who to gift to.  For Scrooge, it's reading AND deciding who they want to try to be.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #183 on: December 11, 2009, 11:02:06 am »

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It was necessary to foil an antimiller-type that always showed up "true". *snicker* Also consider the child-gambit in BYOR1 wherein I said that there was a possibility of a truthteller and got information with that as the stick.
Leafsnail was tripped up by this, and yet noone followed it up, desu!  Although if someone had, Leafsnail woulda just claimed town and taken the risk, desu.

And by the way, the Christmas themed mafia looks hilarious.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #184 on: December 11, 2009, 11:24:45 am »

Christmas mafia added to the list.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #185 on: December 11, 2009, 11:47:58 am »

Discussion thread to Christmas Mafia forming.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #186 on: December 11, 2009, 03:43:09 pm »

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It was necessary to foil an antimiller-type that always showed up "true". *snicker* Also consider the child-gambit in BYOR1 wherein I said that there was a possibility of a truthteller and got information with that as the stick.
Leafsnail was tripped up by this, and yet noone followed it up, desu!  Although if someone had, Leafsnail woulda just claimed town and taken the risk, desu.

And by the way, the Christmas themed mafia looks hilarious.
Your claim was cleverly worded in a way that wasn't TOO obvious.

The child gets significantly less fun (and more Coppy) if you force everyone to follow the townclaim verbatim.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #187 on: December 11, 2009, 04:44:20 pm »

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And for the Truth Reader if there is one, desu:

Leafsnail is not part of any anti-town scumteam (be they pirates, ninjas, cultists, doppelgangers, robots or flying pumpkings that shoot lasers out of their asses, desu), desu.
I suppose you could write it off as roleplaying my (fake) role.  Then again, still lucky noone made the connection and worked out I was in fact a Suiseiserialkiller.

As for the whole "I am an elf" thing... I suppose you might need an elf role that always returns "Lie" too.
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #188 on: December 12, 2009, 10:41:37 pm »

How about this?
Mafia at the Movies

Your favorite movie making studios have had a mix up! The actors have misplaced themselves, but the directors have rolled with it. Survive this movie disaster.

Not sure. I was reading Star Wars quotes and I felt like it. :I

Then the roles are actors with different powers depending on their movie roles.

Mebbeh?
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #189 on: December 12, 2009, 10:42:20 pm »

Shouldn't this be in gametypes?
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« Reply #190 on: December 12, 2009, 10:45:00 pm »

How about this?
Mafia at the Movies

Your favorite movie making studios have had a mix up! The actors have misplaced themselves, but the directors have rolled with it. Survive this movie disaster.

Not sure. I was reading Star Wars quotes and I felt like it. :I

Then the roles are actors with different powers depending on their movie roles.

Mebbeh?

What about Aztec, that game everyone wants to play and you already did all the planning for?
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« Reply #191 on: December 12, 2009, 10:47:45 pm »

What about Aztec, that game everyone wants to play and you already did all the planning for?

Indeed.
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« Reply #192 on: December 12, 2009, 11:00:50 pm »

How about this?
Mafia at the Movies

Your favorite movie making studios have had a mix up! The actors have misplaced themselves, but the directors have rolled with it. Survive this movie disaster.

Not sure. I was reading Star Wars quotes and I felt like it. :I

Then the roles are actors with different powers depending on their movie roles.

Mebbeh?

What about Aztec, that game everyone wants to play and you already did all the planning for?
I dont know
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Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« Reply #193 on: December 12, 2009, 11:04:31 pm »

Do you want Aztec Mafia?
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« Reply #194 on: December 12, 2009, 11:29:51 pm »

Do you want Aztec Mafia?

YES.  If it runs at some point when I can play it, I will be all over that thing.
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