Long Game 90: Undiluted Powers

[Mat he/him]

23 minutes ago, Alvron said:

Sorry Mat but if I had a kill role you would've been my target N1.   As I told Stick in our PM

Whiiiich is why we had Wiz riot you N1 and we killed you N2 xD We knew that was how it would be even though you never posted a reads list 

Can I ask what made you lean me? Was it just gut, or something specific? You don’t have to say if you don’t want to out some tell you always look for, that kind of thing. But I am curious.

Edited November 8, 2022 by Matrim's Dice
Those benchmark posts always sneak up on you don’t they. Well. 6,000! :D

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

15 minutes ago, Alvron said:

Sorry Mat but if I had a kill role you would've been my target N1.   As I told Stick in our PM

Although that would've resulted in my own death as Wandering Wizard was Rioting me to myself but still....

@The Unknown Novel welcome to my kill list. Odds are I'll never get the chance to avenge myself but you will always have that target on your back until I do. 

Hey! I blame Mat and Da(n=n)ex, I was merely the instrument of their desires.

[Stick. she/her]

Very nice game thanks Araris good work village and elims xx

[Turtle they/them]

18 hours ago, Illwei said:

 

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(it wasn't the last one)

 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Turtle
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[Illwei]

29 minutes ago, Turtle said:

 

[The Baker]

Edited November 8, 2022 by The Baker

[Kasimir he/him]

27 minutes ago, Illwei said:

I mean, if he'd said one Villager forgot to send in orders, that'd also have been my response :eyes:

[Illwei]

Just now, Kasimir said:

I mean, if he'd said one Villager forgot to send in orders, that'd also have been my response :eyes:

I'd say there's a reason I didn't sent in tineye messages but i think the real reason is I'm lazy

I even  sent in a riot when i had it....lotta use it did.... kinda didn't care after i reazlise you couldn't riot the kill :pensive:

[Kasimir he/him]

Just now, Illwei said:

I'd say there's a reason I didn't sent in tineye messages but i think the real reason is I'm lazy

I even  sent in a riot when i had it....lotta use it did.... kinda didn't care after i reazlise you couldn't riot the kill :pensive:

IMO worth just doing it for actions accountability but I also get it because that's a very distant endgame sort of problem and less useful for Mistborn maybe, IDK.

There you go :eyes:

[shadow1 she/her]

Woah, thanks for taking this home team! Sorry for my inadequate participation, I was going through a ton irl when this was going on and was a bit too overwhelmed to realize I was so overwhelmed. Obviously I usually try to play better than this.

That said I'm glad I was right with the one vote I did make on matrim - bad vibes is bad vibes, what can I say.

Hope to play with you all again soon and hopefully I actually am in a headspace to, ya know, play next time.

[Throw TheLiving Silverware he/him/il/lui]

Thanks a lot everyone for those wonderful moments. I really had a blast playing this game.

I'm definitely playing again in the future. Not now though, because I'm really busy these days (that's why I almost disappeared for the last cycle or so). But soon, and hopefully doing more RP 

Edit: Yay 100 posts!

Edited November 9, 2022 by Just a Silvereye

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Alright, I've edited in the final writeup.

As for my thoughts on the game, overall I was happy with how things played out, and I think my patch was at least partly successful in what I intended. The primary goal was to remove vote manip, since my personal take is that it favors elims and makes games unnecessarily shorter, allowing elims to hammer and end things at least a cycle before they could have otherwise. In this game that had extra impact because so many cycles went into the last hour or so with close/tied trains.

The secondary goal was to boost the motivation for villagers to smoke each other. This slightly backfired, but that was mostly because there were only 2 village Smokers, one of whom was Kas, and the other went inactive. The only emotional allomancy that was blocked due to smoking was a riot on Cinnamon to her original target, so the game impact was null.

The emotional allomancy itself had a decent impact on the game though; Stick died from the elims rioting Cinnamon. And Wizard's death was a serious blow to the elims, since they lost their most reliable counter to the villager power roles.

This gets to another point in the distribution: I wanted the Coinshot and Seeker roles to go to new players. In part this was due to balance, but also from my very positive experience in AG1 as a Seeker, I found it quite fun to build a PM network of trusted players that I could work with. I assigned roles/alignments to players randomly, and my first roll was just one swap from what I went with (I think Alvron was the Seeker originally).

And I really wanted just a smattering of all the roles in this game, instead of something super trollish. Now that the proof on concept has been run I'd be more comfortable messing around with things in a rerun.

As for balance, I think the elim team was slightly too weak (in a specific way), but that overall the game was balanced. The issue with the elims was that they needed their core of Seeker/Rioter/Smoker to be able to counter the village power roles, but the 2 village mistborn plus the coinshot made it fairly likely that they would lose one of these players somewhat early. Having a Mistborn is cool, but the rolls weren't really great for the elims to capitalize on, which is a risk with only one mistborn on the team. If I had to rerun I'd probably make TUN's slot either a Thug to give the elims some tactical freedom, or a Soother (and probably give the village an extra Smoker in this situation).

And that's it! Thank you again everyone for playing, and especially to the newer folks for stepping out and risking their first SE experience in my second game! I look forward to murdering seeing you in some future games .

[Kasimir he/him]

6 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

This slightly backfired, but that was mostly because there were only 2 village Smokers, one of whom was Kas, and the other went inactive.

That's a very tactful way of saying "Had no sense of self-preservation and scars from AG2 about Smoking prolifically"  

[Devotary of Spontaneity]

Congratulations to the village for winning, and thank you to Araris Valerian for running the game!

As always, if anyone would like to try their hand at running a game, please get ahold of Wilson, Devotary of Spontaneity, Elbereth, Araris Valerian, Elandera, or StrikerEZ, or post in the GM Signups & Discussion Thread. Not only will we get you added to the list, but we'd also be more than willing to help out in any way we can. 

You can also ask questions and get some hints and feedback from everyone in our Art of Game Creation thread. With all the games that we've run so far, we have plenty of experienced GMs that can help you refine any game you're thinking about. If you would rather keep some detail secret, or are self-conscious about posting in thread (there's really no need to be; while we do slaughter each other, we are very polite about it), then I'm sure one of our fantastic committee members (Amanuensis, STINK, Sart, Fifth Scholar, Straw, Archer, and Kasimir) would be more than willing to help you out in private.

Thanks again to everyone that played, and we look forward to killing seeing you in future games!