Opinions on vote-based roles (and your unpreferred roles)

[Magnus]

And Italy.

[May]

Oh, right, Italy. Italy. Doesn’t count. Effectively a sweep (<-- Coping about being wrong)

[May]

That game went to F3 and I thought it was a sweep huh

[Magnus]

How faulty is your memory?

[May]

I have an exceptionally good memory for things that I commit there in the first place. I am exceptionally bad (well, mediocre) at noticing things to remember them. I will say that the outcome of Starcraft is something I should’ve had committed to memory… honestly surprising me that I got that wrong. Shaking up my self-perception.

[Zone_Q11]

@May

the Semi-Priest takes away an active ability, starting wagons, a mode of participation in the game, in exchange for a passive ability, being night-immune, something you have no control over and don’t Do. That removes agency, which removes interaction, which removes fun.

Now, this kind of active-for-passive tradeoff could work okay if the decision was something that would ever be mechanically “worth”. Then you’ve at least got the interactiveness of “do I make this trade”, but as-is, it… just… doesn’t ever feel like starting a wagon is going to be better than being night-immune, so it doesn’t really feel like a trade you should make.

Hm… I feel like this is an in-depth analysis for a role which originated from Undercover Cop, and I honestly like it.

I see… I should take account of how much the direct and indirect removal of player agency is worth the power of the ability…

Very well. I will pay more attention to this in future setups. (If I don’t, then uh… please remind me.)