uh....so how do forum games work (or not work)

[Kuciwalker]

duke - update hangman

[DarkCloud]

duke o'york- but it's moving too slow.

[MORON]

so are there games without a GM? Is it viable or possible?

[Skanky Burns]

Possibly, but a large part of the tactical portion of forum games comes from not knowing what the other players are up to in any given round. For this, you need a GM.

[Ben Kenobi]

People keep playing the 'under the radar' strat in mafia too much- it's sickening- I like the idea of accuring votes against themselves if they do that.

Then look at the people who have abstained and accuse them of being mafia.

Same result. No need to change the rules.

[Ben Kenobi]

N00b!

Guilty as charged.

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by MORON
I had never played a forum game before and poly is the first forum I've found people play forum games. (and only after years of lurking at OT and such)

*waits for the new round for nuclear war FG in the mean time*

The Society Game (see the link in my signature) is looking for at least one more player maybe while waiting for Nuclear War to end (and with 9 players still alive it may be a while yet), and while Society is among the more complex of the rulesets of the current ongoing games, I had a blast playing last time (or was it that I got blasted? one or the other anyway )

/me hoping that MORON or others reading this check out the Society IV signup thread before the game dies a slow painful death

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by MORON
so are there games without a GM? Is it viable or possible?

Hangman

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


It's easier to roleplay a role given to you than it is to come up with your own.

Suppose we had a DS9-themed Mafia, there are plenty of options to role play, because the roles are already there.

Come up with 24 distinct, non-generic roles (actual cast members), and put them all together in a believable setting where they would actually vote, etc, then come back to me.

Trust me, I stretched it as much as I could to minimize the number of generics.

[Kuciwalker]

Plus, the only reason I've been able to write the chapters as long as I do is because I steal so much text from the book (and adapt it).

I got a lot of practice at it last year in school - we had to cut King Lear down to a thirty-minute play with a total of (IIRC) seven different actors

At least people could play multiple roles

[Ben Kenobi]

The fault lies in the theme, not with the GM.

Not enough good characters in the book.

I'd love to see a DS9 style mafia.

Here's who you would have:

Quark
Nog
Rom
Leeta
Grand Nagus Zek
Moogie
Brunt
Ben Sisko
Jake Sisko
Kira Nerys
Odo
Jadzia Dax
Julian Bashir
Miles O'Brien
Keiko O'Brien
Worf
Chancellor Gowron
Ezri Dax
Elim Garak
Kai Winn
Martok
Weyoun
Vic Fountain
Morn

There you go. 24 different roles.

[Kuciwalker]

/me has never watched DS9, so recognizes maybe 3 of those names

However, that's beside the point - are all of those on the Federation side, or whatever? Is there a realistic scenario in which all of them would be together an cooperating?

[Ben Kenobi]

Now, there are only a few that would be tough to place in the bar at the same time.

And Weyoun can just 'show up' on DS9.

[Kuciwalker]

OK then - how about you GM the next one

btw, I think in the next one, we could start with 22 (or 23, and have two initial deaths) and have two mafia kills per round. That would be interesting (and quicker).

[Ben Kenobi]

Well, you can get 22, easy without much fiddling.

Just leave out Brunt from the list.

To include Vic, have the meeting take place in a holosuite in Quark's Bar.

Weyoun comes out and tells people that there is an assassin aboard DS9, and that he has the information on the killer.

Then Sisko gets Weyoun strapped down, and then they start the Mafia round.

[duke o' york]

Kuci, just look back at some of the older games of Mafia if you want to find scenarios with 24 readily identifiable characters. Jamski's in particular were excellent, and different types of character moved forward from one game to the next.

* duke is still not delighted that he always got to be the most senior character, and as such the easy target for all those of Communist persuasion, but refuses to change his username anyway.

[DrSpike]

Alas Jamski can't fit in GMing around NWN addiction these days.

[Skanky Burns]

And he can't fit his NWN addiction around moving these days.

I'm sure we will see more of him until he gets broadband back though.

[DrSpike]

will = wont or until = when, for those that need translation.

[Ben Kenobi]

Duke'o'york:

Why do you fear the communists?

If the communists were in charge, wouldn't I be the first one offed?

[Theben]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Duke'o'york:

Why do you fear the communists?

If the communists were in charge, wouldn't I be the first one offed?

b/c we r teh 1337 W4rr10rz5.

We'd take ya both out at the same time.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike
will = wont or until = when, for those that need translation.

He will be using a 56k until he can get broadband, so chances are he will be spending more time at Poly relative to what he has been spending previously.

[Kuciwalker]

downloading porn?

[General Ludd]

Downloading elf porn.

[Kuciwalker]

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns


He will be using a 56k until he can get broadband, so chances are he will be spending more time at Poly relative to what he has been spending previously.

Good dodge. Wrong though.