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[Imp]

Ah. I figured complaining about dying would be fine, since it's not like my death was hidden or anything.

Yep!  You didn't do anything wrong - if anything I'm walking the line of wrongness more than you ;p.

However, I'd rather be 'bad' then risk players getting mad and going away unsatisfied - especially if it's because of a factor that's unique to that specific game (as far as I know it's unique).  I'd like my chance to play with you guys!  And I think Mafia here has a lot to offer you.

[Persus13]

I'll give my thoughts of BM Sprint at game end (since I don't know what's going to happen), but I've been enjoying playing it so far.

[Elephant Parade]

Ah. I figured complaining about dying would be fine, since it's not like my death was hidden or anything.

Yep!  You didn't do anything wrong - if anything I'm walking the line of wrongness more than you ;p.

However, I'd rather be 'bad' then risk players getting mad and going away unsatisfied - especially if it's because of a factor that's unique to that specific game (as far as I know it's unique).  I'd like my chance to play with you guys!  And I think Mafia here has a lot to offer you.

Yeah, I agree. Risking a game being spoiled is always bad, and it was nice of you to warn me not to say anything; though I did know not to post any sort of game-related information other than "bah, I'm dead," since I'm new to Mafia, I might not have known. However, I'm generally extremely careful about following rules, so I figured I probably shouldn't say anything beyond that.

[lordnincompoop]

I found it too short, but that's because I got nightkilled first night.

*hugs and comforts*  We're not allowed to talk about games that are not finished yet, but Sprint BM is the shortest, fastest, most 'savage' in timesense sort of game I've ever seen here (I'm new, so I haven't seen a lot yet... but still).

If the first Sprint turns out to be an unpleasant experience, changes will definitely have to be made.

Then again, you're expected to be able to engage yourself slightly more because of the short timespan. I'd think that for people interested in playing Mafia properly, posting a few times a day for just one week seems a reasonable request.

[notquitethere]

After finishing up moderating the Sprint I'm going to take a break from mafia (now I've officially won a game without the mod having to declare my win post-hoc, as in Witches). It only took a year and about 15 games. As such, I'm withdrawing CYOM for now.

Spoiler: Some background (click to show/hide)

I started playing mafia back in January in a break between working when I had a lot of free time. Nowadays I work full time and have a busy social life and I also want time to work on creative projects. I think I finally became a pretty good player of both town and scum, and I genuinely think my analytical approach to vote counts is be a useful scumhunting tool. Undoubtedly, I'll be back again, but I don't intend to sign up to any more games unless they're too good to miss.

Looking back, my favourite games this year were the ones I survived the longest in, where I had useful powers, where there were interesting mechanics and the game wasn't completely arbitrary.

So top 3 games I enjoyed playing and felt there was a reasonable chance of winning:
1. Mafia and Masons
2. BYOR 12
3. Toon Mafia

Games I didn't so much enjoy playing:
1. Great Temple
2. King Mafia 3
3. BM XXXVIV (regular town is just a bit boring and I was mislynched by town-mates)

Games I enjoyed but felt were mechanically unfair:
1. Witches (super fun game but it transpired that my wincon would have required me to convince town to lynch the same person 3 times: a player that could willingly enter a day-skipping coma, that the scum explicitly didn't want to kill.)
2. Supernatural 6 (stated to be a semi-open with no new roles. Nope.)
3. Magic Mafia (lots of fun roles intersecting in the game but suddenly cut short by a left-field cult win. How do you even stop that?)

[Leafsnail]

The Supernatural OP says this:

Roles: The basic information about available town roles will be known. However, I will only give a general description of each role that will give an indication of what the role can do. More specific information will be given in role PMs as necessary. This means you will not know the specific rules of many of the roles, even if you know what they do. There may also be variations on the town roles, both within a game and between games.

Scum and 3rd party role information is not going to be posted in the thread.

So the problem wasn't that the scum had hidden roles (that was statedin the op) but that the scum had too many members and too much power.

[ToonyMan]

Thank goodness now if I'm on a team with NQT I won't feel worried.

[webadict]

Thank goodness now if I'm on a team with NQT I won't feel worried.

I feel like this might require more testing to confirm.

[Persus13]

Also, does anyone mind me putting my The Good the Bad and the Ugly game on the queue?

[Toaster]

Hey Toaster, you got a time-frame in mind for starting JK9++?

Hmm... how about I open signups on D2 of Paranormal, or end of BYOR12, whichever comes first?  Two games at once seems to be about our quota these days.  It needs thirteen players exactly, which might be a bit tricky for that last one or two.

So that happened.  Without objections, I'll put JK9++ in signups tomorrow.

[Mephansteras]

We're down to Paranormal being the only non-BM game running. Not sure if that is a problem or not, though, with the holidays coming up.

Probably worth putting a game or two into sign-ups, even if they have a caveat that they might not start until after the holidays.

[Persus13]

Put the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on queue.

[Toaster]

Limerick Mafia has gone to signup
Now it is the time to gallop
  To the reply button
  You Mafia glutton
And go and put your name up.

[webadict]

I'll probably put Smstr W/ Love up into sign-ups in like 1-2 weeks, depending on how much Nerjin and I can get done.

[Vector]

Iron Diadem will be entering signups within 24 hours.