it’s like the room of requirement thing you know
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(for context for other ppl: there was a harry potter qbcord mafia game and I asked if I can get things from the room of requirement since that was my ability and since the gm allowed it I started finding fanged frisbees and fv’ing them plus making healing poitions in there)
(needless to say unfortunately i died before i could use the latter but yk!)
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The best part was that the GM basically created a Horcrux mechanic on the spot because of it and began applying it to the game going forward.
More games should do stuff like that.
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I think as a whole, roles that’re intended to be open-ended do best when they give an explanation for how these things happen.
For example, you might say that a Roleblocker does so using a lifetime supply of chewing gum and a battery-powered toy machine gun that shoots said chewing gum at a target. That’s much better to use than just saying, “You prevent a person from taking action tonight.”
The more detail you give, the more tools a player has to play with their role.
Nyaaaa
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Side note: it was this train of thought that made me make Zelda Mafia have a map versus being a regular mafia game.
I wanted this freedom to be the cornerstone of the game, but I wasn’t certain if a mafia game gave enough vectors for players to really go wild.
Nyaaaaaa I get to spend way less time online fucking around than I used to and I don’t like it
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I think I might like Posting more than anything else I think I’m a Poster at heart
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Extremely funny how you are, like, a quarter of all of that first post’s reblogs.
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I think it might be more than that atp
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33 reblogs, and you’re 7 of those.
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Oh I mixed them up. I’m more than a quarter of the last one’s hundreds of reblogs iirc
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I’m not a Poster and I’m okay with that
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I’m literally sad that I’m in a romantic* relationship** because it diminishes my Posting Time
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Posting is at the core of my being. Posting is who I am
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That and orgo homework
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I think this is what we in the business call an addiction.
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Ohhhh I’m addicted to advancing my career. I’m addicted to pleasant walks outside. I’m addicted to caring for my children. It’s a lifestyle. Posting is its own end. The business needs to fucking grow up
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Rant
I don’t remember past games, but I do remember I couldn’t do anything in that game before dying.
I remember I sucked at cooperating, and I remember getting framed mid-late game, but I learnt that I was basically useless the entire game.
If there was anything to prove in that game, then it would be the proof that I shouldn’t play any co-ops games anymore, period.
“To be ostracized because I refused to cooperate in a field where the opposing minority have advantages” is something I would rather never experience again in this decade.
Like, sure: “Co-op is a necessity,” but when everyone ought to know that such a thing will never happen when [the minority has access to the majority’s plans] and [(they) have the powers to counteract said plans], then formulating any plans simply becomes useless. Because you’re revealing your plans in public, in an open world where your enemies have more than one ways of escaping your influence of power.
Did I have any knowledge of what the Mafia can do? No, but did I even need that when I know they can do whatever they want, and when nothing the majority does can stop them? No!
In FM, executions by voting is unavoidable. There is nowhere to run. In that game? “Just run away, lol.” The majority never had any power. It was just a violence stimulating simulator, disguised as an open world game simulator.
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