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Hi all, It has been brought to my attention that I made someone in this community feel extremely uncomfortable with my presence here. I have no context for why that is the case, and I have not been alerted as to that person's identity. I had only found out today that this was the case at all. I'm al...

In terms of IRL mafia, I'm waiting on Blood on the Clocktower to ship to me; should be some time soon.

jimbobmacdoodle wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:33 am

osieorb18 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:14 am

jimbobmacdoodle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:15 pm 1. osieor 18
2. jimbobmacdoodle (could play if desperate)

I don't get it.

As in, if desperate for numbers, I could play instead of mentoring.

No, why did you remove the letter b from my username?

jimbobmacdoodle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:15 pm 1. osieor 18
2. jimbobmacdoodle (could play if desperate)

I don't get it.

/mentor, /cohost, or /spec in roughly that order as needed.

Tomsloger and Iso have both put it well in the past. Paraphrasing: "As any alignment, when playing the game, I'm playing a part as someone who is sitting there and solving. I may involve actual thoughts in that in the process, but fundamentally there's a separation between myself and my play, a...

In the same way that scum Bessie becomes a caricatur of town Bessie, I think the same may be possible for Osie. I don't know Osie well enough to know for sure, but I think actually town Osie would have reconciled or ignored Bessie sooner. Nah, I was actively trying to reconcile for too long and tha...

These are all valid non-playstyle points in my opinion: Post 7: Rolefishing, opening the door to speculate on a possible Snide Sniper soft claim. Also making a second post where the content could have been included in the previous post (related thoughts). [-1] Even if it wasn't your intention, it's...

Confirmed. @Sniper - If people hadn't told me, I probably wouldn't have realized you were a newish player for a while, possibly into somewhere in late Day 2. I was rather paranoid of you towards the start. I think once you get your feet under you, you have a lot of potential to be a really solid pl...

No. I legit caught you on Page 1 Day 1, did analysis, and gave my many reasons. And its disingenuous of you chalk it up to luck. I called it as I saw it, yet you label everything I found scummy about you a “misrepresentation”? What?? Just because you don’t understand my playstyle and techniques doe...

speaking of mafia, do people have an idea for a new game??? i am SO KEEN to do the PIZZAZZ MAFIA that was promised when cult won halloween (i will make all the rolese FUN, and there will be NO OVERSIGHT, so it will probably be unbalanced and for that i don't apologise at all because PIZZAZZ), but i...

These are all valid non-playstyle points in my opinion: Post 7: Rolefishing, opening the door to speculate on a possible Snide Sniper soft claim. Also making a second post where the content could have been included in the previous post (related thoughts). [-1] Post 11: However, note that Osie does ...

madge wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:26 am update my husband is bringing us bento boxes for dinner because it's too hot to cook and i cbf, so i will be enjoying sushi. thank you for the inspo the worst

Ahhh I haven't had a bento box in years.

Rereading the first few pages again though, it seems to me that bessie just caught you redhanded and there wasn't anything you could do to get out of it. You were scum, she figured it out. Nothing after that was going to convince her otherwise. Also this feels like a really generous interpretation ...

I like all of the submitted roles and the number of investigatives is amazing.

Although with my pedantic hat on Roles will be randomly allocated based on those submitted by the players. Roles will not be allocated to the submitter, the mod reserves the right to alter roles for any reason. Mod error is any reason ;) I mean... This comes to mind after figuring that out: https:/...

Wam wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:10 pm I should have clarified but I did assume the inventor was immune to all gifts unless they went out and back.

The inventor's actions being immune was the idea, but the passives were supposed to affect the whole game.

I don't really trust self-claims of how a person would have behaved as another alignment. It's pretty much an illusion due to hindsight bias. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I made that comment during and before the game as well and it's pretty much the number one comment I usually get on my scum game, that Day 1 is ide...

This comes to mind after figuring that out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCArh_R9dY

Notes - I think I messed up the implementation of Osie's role - Osie getting the Catgirl role was completely random, however, I may have made that role scum for balance reasons anyway. - I had missed the part of Osie's role that meant it could target any player living or dead and that's why I decid...

Most of not everything else was entirely organic.

Yeah possibly the only thing in Day 1 that I might not have done as town was the manner of engagement with the worst. I'd either have engaged a lot more or a lot less, most likely.

Lol. It was cathartic, albeit just reminding me of how frustrating Bessie's posts were regardless of alignment. (It would have been funnier if Bessie had responded to it, though.) I legit probably would have made it as either alignment, though. What did you find frustrating? Mostly what I was sayin...

The answer is obviously secret catgirls. This seems not SO far off from "red herrings", an idea I had floated for how to handle miller/godfather frustrations while still nerfing alignment cops (a role which is generally considered to be too strong on its own): Rather than tell anybody tha...

If you want to reuse the catgirl, here's what I'd recommend: Have one catgirl in the mafia and another in the town, so that the "catgirl" result isn't alignment-indicative Give the town catgirl an ability beyond the ninja-godfather-self-watcher so that they can be detected by a watcher Ma...