as much as i’d love to make fun of it this is actually a pretty significant buff
boomdandy once again being unrunnable on fol
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wow. and here i thought botc was designed for longform play.
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damn i thought boomdandy was the model longform role…
arguably this makes boomdandy more runnable in longform. everyone gets one post with a strict character limit. good fucking luck
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it wouldn’t be a true 1 to 1 implementation of 10 seconds of post-boomdandy chaos. but if you’re looking for a true 1 to 1 implementation of the clocktower experience botf is not the place to find it
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they did also never specify the 10 to 1 countdown had to be in seconds
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The alchemist boomdandy arguing why it should be in hours
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well you see, steven medway clearly intended for the storyteller to variably time the countdown for balance purposes. therefore-
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i guess in longform version you just allow people to talk for 10 seconds and close however many game chats you can after that (easier on discord)
I have heard and agree with the sentiment that this is harmful to the game due to overtalking.
If you’re playing this in person, I doubt it’d be any better you’d just have a shouting match and the loudest voice would win, which is inherently harmful to anyone like myself who isn’t exactly the shouting type, but in a discord chat everyones gonna be absolutely screaming into the mic and for those 10 seconds it’s just going to be awful, evils will be encouraged to join in because if they don’t then their demon might just get nommed for free
It’s chaotic which the boomdandy already was but in a really bad way that doesn’t feel healthy for the game at all that’s my hot-take I’m just gonna pretend this change isn’t real
the change seems good and i like it, it probably just doesnt work as well online but like BOTC wasnt designed around online play and still isnt so i dont really see that as an issue
Like I said even if this was in person I feel like the problem of everyone shouting over eachother would still be there, there’s absolutely no chance in 10 seconds you have the ability to get your information across reasonably so you’d have to get it out there fast, which is what everyone in the game will be doing
And I just don’t think having to scream over people to get your info in is fun at all and would be liable to just turn people off the game
A 10 to 1 countdown is, in fact, variable length. If your players genuinely wouldn’t be comfortable with the intended dynamic (which yes, boomdandy as said by steven should be inducing a frenzied panic), draw out your countdown a little bit.
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Eh, but then it’s just boomdandy pre-edit?
If you draw out your countdown such that each count is done over six seconds it is
But that sounds obnoxious
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I am not saying to literally go “teeeeennnnnnn”, “niiiiinnnnneeee”
I’m saying that if 10 is apparently uncomfortable shoot for ~20-30
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nyaaaaaaaa I think it probably depends on the group (disclaimer I have not played botc in real life)
If everyone felt ~equally comfortable and was ~equally able to be loud in a shouting match it seems pretty fun
On the other hand if some people were shy and/or unable to talk as loud it would be bad (talking from my experience in among us where I would tend to talk a lot during meetings which some people didn’t like)
Anyway
Steven medway
More Minion buffs please? Release lycan or poppy change? I need to see them