The Syndicate

S~V~S wrote:I am having some issues with my baddie teams, I will look up some of these roles and see if they inspire me.

It's funny, two of you mention SOT, and my favorite role was from that game as well, but it was a civvie role. I highly prefer being a baddie, so I find it interesting that Kahlan was my favorite role. Maybe it was the awesome BTS~ my two follow ups were rabbits LOST as Ethan Rom, and Survivor, being the mole on that huge civ BTS group was awesome. But in SOT having Typh as my recruited from the Jagang Gang recruit gave me a very different perspective on aapjes role~ for me one of the most fun parts of the game was trying to get Bea, who we did not have BTS with yet but whose role i knew, to try and save Jagang in order to keep the Keeper from growing too powerful. So I was a major civvie working hard to keep a major baddie from being lynched. At one point, i changed the song link in my sig to "Everybodys got something to hide but me and my Monkey" with a link named "I love my Monkey" or something like that, but he wound up being lynched anyhow. Good times (not so much for aapje, though). That was an awesome game

Haha, looks like we were on opposite sides of the bizarre spectrum in that game then.

The answer to your question depends on whether it's a baddie I've played or a baddie role I've created.

I always try and do something unique in each of my games I've hosted and continue to do so with games I will host, especially with baddie team dynamics and baddie roles. I can't use examples from my current or subsequent games just yet, but I am very proud of many of those roles for sure. My favorite baddie role I've ever created prior to Avant 1 and not including Bioshock or Fight Club would definitely have to be Biosphere from The Ambient Trinity in Electronic Music Mafia (the role with the secret ability to target a player every night and make that person's votes worth negative the amount of players still alive in the trinity until Biosphere dies) or any one of The Residents from Avant-Garde Mafia 1 (it helps when it all the roles are on a secret team which no one knew existed).

As to team dynamics, I love multiple (at least 2, if not 3+) baddie teams and roles which create chaos, as anyone who has played any of my games will be able to attest to. That being said, those are the only variables in building baddie teams that stay relatively consistent from game to game for me. I also prefer to keep, if there are two 'conventional' baddie teams, one baddie team focused more towards day/vote manipulation abilities and another towards more night related actions. What also helps to keep players analyzing and wondering is when there are events that could be explained by corresponding civvie and baddie roles, rather than one or the other. I must say, I love to keep players constantly questioning and analyzing, but when there are secrets in my baddie roles, I do prefer a way to reveal them over time in the game so as to give them an increasing idea as to what has been going on behind the scenes. I try to mix that up game to game as well.

My favorite baddie role to play... surprisingly, probably one of the Sisters of the Dark in rabbit8's Sword of Truth game. It also wins the award for my least favorite baddie role to play and that is because the entire trio of us (myself, Sparrow, and Jason Maher) were pretty much slaves to the Jagang (aapje) role unless we got that role lynched. We had a NK, but the target was chosen by Jagang, so I think what I liked most about it was just how much of a challenge it gave me. Anyone who played that game or has some knowledge regarding it knows that I came up with the infamous parchment that game in an elaborate lie to get aapje lynched, which I somehow was able to accomplish... and then became an outed baddie and was lynched the subsequent period. But what I suppose I liked (but also hated) so much about it was the intense challenge it created for us to win the game. It was certainly some very awkward BTSC with aapje given we couldn't win with him and once I decided I had to start going after him in thread.

I think an equally good question would be, what has been your (directed towards anyone) favorite civvie role created as well as played?