The Syndicate

Personally I love hosting games with big, experimental mechanics (I wrote a guide on making them, ffs) and the day I have to drop those to only host simple setups will be the day I drop hosting permanently. I get the attraction of playing such a game, but hosting... not that much. I can write a role list with cop+doctor+vanilla in a couple minutes, so the entire creative side of hosting would be gone with that.

Even smaller setups I'll only host if there's a twist (like Space Invaders, which I didnt make myself but wanted to see happening). If you want to play montainous have fun (I might join too), but we might as well design a bot that hosts montainous games since the actual hosting work for that is nearly zero.

I'm on a soft break since December 2020, due to a combination of mafia burnout and being busy in real life. I say "soft" because I have already kind of broken it by hosting a small game at One Last Forum. But for now I'm only hosting small games in small forums and not hosting anything big, or playing anything.

The soft break will end in December 2021, when the real life workload will likely go down. Then I will make my return by hosting Team Fortress, and likely signing up to some Rackets. I intend to stick to Rackets for now because the last few non-Racket games I played scared the shit out of me with how high the post count was. I believe the main reason for my burnout was all the mornings I spent reading and replying to over 500 posts for hours a day, and I don't want to return to that, probably ever.

All setups being offered seem interesting and fun, though. And I would play them, if my break was over and they were in the Racket slot instead of the slots they are in. But I'm a role madness guy, I can understand if a non-role madness person feels underwhelmed.