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It will be fun, I think, to throw in some sort of ultra-rare castes in with the normal races so we can get things like midgets and giants, or occasionally megabeasts or demons born from humans. Things like the "children born with horns" thing in Ico.

FYI, as IC, ToonyMan is an experienced player with several games and likely a few wins under his belt, serving primarily an advisory role. Specifically, he is the town IC - his job is foremost to help the players learn what they need to do and how they need to act to be succesful town-players and scumhunters. Vector is the mafia IC and posts in the mafia chat with advice for the scum players - which everyone will be able to see and learn from when the game ends.

Both players, however, are ultimately neutral - their goal is to help you learn and offer advice and make better players, and to that end vector may occasionally pop in to offer advice to the town even if hes technically supposed to be helping the scum. Scum can learn a lot from the town IC, and town can learn a lot from the scum IC - especially since you'll likely have a different role next game.

Dakarian will post primarily as a town IC, but mostly he's a personal IC for myself, since this is the first game that I've run.

All three of them have been around for a while - their advice might not always be perfect, they may not always be right even, but they speak from experience and at the very least demonstrate how other more experienced players view your actions. They are a resource, and are there to help you - don't be afraid to use them, to ask them questions, etc.

Remember that they are also the only ones you are allowed to Private Message (assuming you copy me in as well) if you have some question you want answered, but think it would look scummy to post it in the thread for example.

Okay everyone, Sunday night - I expect everyone to be back and on their game tomorrow. The new official deadline is Tuesday night, 11pm EST. If I don't see enough activity over the next two days, I will be sending out prods, guaranteed.

Generally, I play with magic settings in fantasy games whereas all magic, ever, anywhere, is alive - its a bit like fey/fell moods. You can use the magic in such a way so as to allow you to create an artifact, but the spirits that answer your call are the ones that end up deciding what happens as a result, especially if you give them access to your mind. You don't really know if you just asked the elven volcanic nature god for help, or if it was just some demon pretending to be the elven volcano god. Either way your fireball might go off, but maybe you agreed to more than you bargained for and you can't get it to stop...

 Magical artifacts, of course, are always alive and always have their own desires, seldom in line with those that want to use them.

Now, we don't really know how DF is going to implement magic yet, but thats the sort of system I'd really like to see. Something where magic is powerful, but you can't trust it - its not reliable, its not consistant, and something you generally stay away from unless you really absolutely need it, because its not a matter of if, its a matter of WHEN you are gonna get burned.

That said, I'm not sure DF needs an RPG anything like it mechanically, its a pretty righ setting for any fantasy style RPG though.

Yeah, I've just been pretty out of it, and all my time I've spent on has been doing my hosting stuff and BM6. I hesitate to think how much I'm gonna start to fall apart once u-pick opens up again! All the different mafia everythings are floating together and becoming one in my head.

Normally I'd ask for a replacement, btw, but its KotM and getting voted out essentially is getting replaced