The Syndicate

Sloonei wrote:My favorite mechanic that I want to try out is the "player writes Night posts for the host" mechanic that was used in Bullets over Broadway. I tried using it in the RYM game I just modded (Community), but the player who had the role never used it. I also really like inventors, or any mechanic that allows for a Wild Card time of thing where any player can gain a slight advantage at any time. There can potentially be a lot of strategy involved in this and it's fun to see how players use their limited abilities.

I have a form of this in my up and coming setup which uh *cough* someone should *cough* totally give me their slot so we can play *cough*

http://forum.chocolatepi.net/showthread.php?tid=683 is something im referring to, similar to it at least:

i meant more specifically the Jobs though

Just taking a quick check over at the past seven or so Jobs. It seems this community favors 25+ player sized games, on average. Typically open setups with no less than three parties or factions. I dont believe i saw any strictly, closed setup, just two faction games.

i'm still getting used to it, but it also excites me for (if and) when i get to bring you all my closed setup! I can assure everyone it will be great! (also it's a bit smaller, but i dont think that'll be a problem)

@epi

22 phases. Golly that's like. 4 months or so?

Oh heh, and I just finished playing a setup called "Crooks Hollow" in which every player has a one shot desperado kill

The trick was the game had to be solved in 5 days or everyone lost

There were gun mods which modified your gunshot. It could be stolen by certain roles

All kinds of craziness, but when it came down to it. The town got over confident and ended up killing each other with their desperado kills. (It was one hell of a fun game though).

I remember hearing a story a CPI where Palamedes (one of the mods) had a Mafia game on MSPA that would kill any player that didn't post every 12 hours I think? It was called AFK Mafia and to quote him "it was terrible."

Not mechanic based on this but, I think original stories with original characters provide the best setup flavors. Especially if the host is a good writer and can really get a good solid couple paragraphs per event/cycle.

Here let me give an example:

I played a game called "Credithunt" with the basis being stock brokers.

Each role received one credit a night. Each dead player could choose to group vote on giving a player one bonus credit

All night abilities costed credits

There were a variety of roles to keep things interesting

And since it was an open setup, in which there was no role reveal. The entire game was stressfully fun


Personally it's one of my favorites as well, being that I replaced in and proceeded to kill two Mafia members with the assassin role, which had to kill a Mafia member or die if a town member is chosen to be killed




I guess by mechanics I mean special conditions to add to the game, you dig?

Curious since I've heard of some ridiculous ones.