this post is just gonna be a rambling of my own thoughts on the game, so bear with me if you get lost in my own thoughts.
i cant get all the night actions up yet cuz i'm missing a page, but i'll get them up hopefully sometime in the next 12 hours (i started Day 3 from my girlfriend's house, and i took the page i wrote them all down on over there with me and then left it there).
ok. i think the teams looked fairly balanced on paper, maybe favoring the mafia a little bit due to the Infiltrator role, but overall it looked good. and then i started assigning roles with a random number generator, and a few people ended up with roles that made me think about re-assigning them... most notably, Joe ending up with the Infiltrator role made me really re-think the role assignments. however, i decided to just let it play in the end (obviously).
props to both Brett and Clay, who were both rookies and actually were active most of the game. i think Clay in particular played very well. on the other hand though, i (and apparently some of the other mafia members) got an INSANE amount of PMs on the board from Clay about all these conspiracy theories that could be happening. you'll see the amount of posts he has on the mafia board too, it was ridiculous how in to the game he was. i was very glad to see that enthusiasm, but damn, he was obsessed.
what the fuck at people who are usually more active in these games (tom, dave) not hardly posting at all.
i was surprised at the goose lynch on the first day, and i was very surprised at the way howes played on day 2.
town not only had to deal with inactive people but had some VERY bad luck with the night actions. brett had one good role block on night 2 that prevented the mafia from getting two kills twice in a row, but that was about it. tom scanned clay on night 2, but then got brain washed so couldnt tell anyone about it, and then got lynched, so that was out. jamie kept tracking townies, kmacc got role blocked by tyler in key protection moments, and the masons didnt hardly utilize their board at all.
arguably the most powerful role in the game was the Infiltrator. if it had landed in any one else's hands, i'm wondering if the game would've turned out the same way it did. joe was absolutely incredulous when i told him that he just happened to be the one to get that role over everyone else. MVT and Tim were good mason picks, and i think it would've been VERY fun to watch those 3 try and discuss things not knowing that Joe was actually mafia. this is one of the roles where i think that if someone else had it, we might have had an extremely different game.
role ideas for this mafia game all came from characters in Zelda: Ocarina of Time. i used each of the six Sages, Princess Zelda and Link, and then 4 out of 5 of the major races were vanillas (I left out Gerudos). Rauru and Ruto as masons and Saria as a role blocker were random choices. Impa is a Sheikah, and they're known as the shadow race, so it made sense to have her as a watcher role. Nabooru, while not a baddie in the game, had been brain washed by baddies, so thats where the miller inspiration came from. and Darunia, Big Boss of the Gorons, seemed a definitely obvious choice for Body Guard. i had some other role ideas (King Zora for TOWN Mayor, e.g.), but in the end i left most of those out.
mafia roles were pretty quick choices too. originally i didnt have a role blocker for mafia, but i put one in on a suggestion from robin. other than that, not much to say about the mafia roles. just to make sure i know i said it, i LOVED my brain washer role idea, and had a lot of fun coming up with the different things people could say. i wanted to use more LOLCat sayings, but i didnt wanna beat it into the ground. for anyone that was curious, Matt V was brain washed for Day 4 and i gave him all lines from Fight Club to say.
i also wonder how it would've worked had mafia members actually had to role claim. the vanilla roles i picked were all just plain members of the various races in zelda games, but the safe claims i left for the mafia to use were specific people in game. so i dont know how that would've worked, and once again, maybe it could've turned the tide had a vanilla picked up on that.
monster post, so i'm sorry for the tl;dr but props once again if you made it all the way thru. like i said, night actions up ASAP.
thanks again to everyone that played! it was a good time.
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