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Mafia / Re: Games Threshold Discussion and List
« on: April 01, 2024, 12:53:53 pm »
I'd like to stay on the list.

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 23, 2024, 11:46:07 am »
Thought: As written, Reveal can be taken by Steal, allowing scum to fake a town confirm on themselves and break LYLO. It can also be destroyed by Decay 0.
Reveal should be destroyable and stealable, but I know that it needs a rewrite.  Probably something like "If you are the Chosen One, publicly reveal your Role and gain two votes."
I think the public reveal should work regardless of role because it's hilarious. Might be too strong in a town Thief's hands, though.

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 23, 2024, 12:50:37 am »
This is more a funny loophole than a serious problem, but Tinker II doesn't specify any limits on what modifiers can be added to abilities, meaning that you could turn a (One-Shot) into a nonsensical (One-Shot, Two-Shot). If Two-Shot implies that X-shot can exist for any X, then you could make an ability 99-Shot and freely modify it with Tinker I afterward.

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 21, 2024, 04:42:02 pm »
Thought: As written, Reveal can be taken by Steal, allowing scum to fake a town confirm on themselves and break LYLO. It can also be destroyed by Decay 0.

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 14, 2024, 10:22:04 pm »
Nah, I just thought it'd be bad to answer that question at that moment and found it funnier to say "yes" than to explain why.

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 14, 2024, 09:59:04 pm »
By the way, was there a deadchat?

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Mafia / Re: Demonology ½: A Prototype - Game Over - Good Wins
« on: March 14, 2024, 09:54:00 pm »
Also, was the post limit detrimental or positive, in your experience?
It was positive because it made everyone else post less :v

So, is there things you liked, didn't like, or would change?

I hoped people would think that, but I was a Disciple with Nullify, Decay, and Frame (!). Pretty bad powerset for a 6-man game, but that's RNG.

webadict: Frame feels all but useless in town hands. Theoretically it protects the target from scum rolecops, but that isn't worth turning them into a miller. If there was a way to change rolename but not alignment -- an option, a single tier that's either-or instead of AND, giving the Evil part an "if you're evil" rider -- then it would be fine.
Good point.  I think Frame being a choice of alignment and/or role would be a fun change.  I did kind of give you some negative Actions, which was a bit intentional as it was some testing, so I hope you didn't mind it too much.

One thing I didn't like when creating the roles was the Always/Sometimes/Rarely mods.  I think just having a pool of available mods would be better.  I will admit that choosing the Ranks was kind of fun, but I'd have to make some changes.  I also probably made the Demon a bit weaker, but I gave some decent prophecies in exchange.  It was always gonna be a bit tough for Crystal, but I think it was very close!
It didn't bother me at all for the same reason my role was so weak: the game didn't go to N2.

I like Always/Sometimes/Rarely as a way of distinguishing between core and periphery abilities of a role, but I can see how it'd feel limiting. Maybe fold together Sometimes and Rarely?

This would bloat role PMs and increase the amount of work you had to do, but it'd be convenient if role PMs listed all tiers of all abilities possessed by the role (or just those the player could access), not just the one tier the player has. It's easy information to find, but the player is definitely going to need it, so why not just give it to them? As an example of what that might look like:

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Elephant Parade - Disciple

You are the disciple of the great illusionist, Francesca Lión.  She taught you the importance of misdirection, hiding in plain sight, and the ways to fight that which denies logic.  No one denied that.  Others may not be able to see through the ruses that control others, but you can.

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Role:  Disciple
Alignment:  Good
(Auto) Disciple:  Investigate Abilities performed on you fail.
{3AP} (1-Shot, Night) Overload I:  Use another Ability you control as though it were Rank 0.  Destroy that Ability.
{1AP} (Single, Night) Frame I [target]:  Target permanently Inspects as Evil and a Role of your choice.
{3AP} (Night) Nullify I [target]:  Destroy the target’s Auto Abilities.
{2AP} (Night) Decay II [target]:  Downgrade all Actions the target used during this Phase by one Rank.
Spoiler: Other Ability Ranks (click to show/hide)

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I hoped people would think that, but I was a Disciple with Nullify, Decay, and Frame (!). Pretty bad powerset for a 6-man game, but that's RNG.

webadict: Frame feels all but useless in town hands. Theoretically it protects the target from scum rolecops, but that isn't worth turning them into a miller. If there was a way to change rolename but not alignment -- an option, a single tier that's either-or instead of AND, giving the Evil part an "if you're evil" rider -- then it would be fine.

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Amusingly, I could have overloaded Decay and destroyed Max's Reveal. That would not have been a good play.

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I'm a bit pissed Quarque self-hammered. If he was fed up, he was well within his rights to disengage; even not making a single post for the rest of the day would've been better than denying us the chance to see who, if anyone, would hammer.
Sorry, Elephant. I feel like I misbehaved to the point where I deserve a ban. Going to take a long break from mafia games in any case, it makes me loath myself every time.
Nah, I wouldn't go that far. But if you need a break, you need a break.

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I wasnt that confidebt that Tric was town after Quar0wue'd flip. I thought that it was either Tricmagic or elephant parade because both of you seemed exetremly suspicious of Quarque and jumped on the wagon quickly
Why block Tric over me? How did you feel about Tric during the day?
Tric's pla0y always rubbed me the wrong way but town!tric always did that. I did not like how they put Quarque to L-1 and it reminded me how they hammered in discord mafia.
I ask because, going off of a quick skim, you literally didn't interact with them at all during the day. Anyway, I'm 98% sure it's you for various reasons that I can enumerate if people care.

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I wasnt that confidebt that Tric was town after Quar0wue'd flip. I thought that it was either Tricmagic or elephant parade because both of you seemed exetremly suspicious of Quarque and jumped on the wagon quickly
Why block Tric over me? How did you feel about Tric during the day?

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I performed the lowest level of block on Tricmagic and protected Imp

I wonder why block TM, but also, why protect Imp this game, N1?
I townread you. Also, I wasbt paying attention to the thread when Maximum Spin stated that an offensivebaction was performed by me
Ahem:
I performed the lowest level of block on Tricmagic and protected Imp
Why block Tric?

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Jesus Christ MS, you just about gave me a heart attack.

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I performed the lowest level of block on Tricmagic and protected Imp
Why block Tric?

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