Ok, I must say that the wolves are really lame and unsportive. Is that a reward for hosting the previous game?
I think it's a result from hosting the previous game.
AS for the lynching of Ironhead 5, while it is lamentable, it's a sound strategy by the baddies. he's canny and a good player. he's the type that a lot of wolves like to hit early on. wolves tend to go after guys who have positive reputations, and who have won a lot of games or done well in a lot of games. they don't go after jonti-h of course, because he's usually (and in this case) is a wolf.
It could be part of a strategy or it could be random. Though I am thinking there was intent here. If I am a wolf I usually make the first hunt as random as possible, though if in my pack there is someone who wants to lynch a certain player, I will not oppose it unless it's tacticly bad. In one game I was really against hunting OrangeYoshi first night, since the guy was a vote-magnet at that time, drawing away attention from other targets (I think he still is a player who draws a more than average amount of votes).
I think this case is a bit special because there was a lot of whining and bitching about the last game. This should make Ironhead 5 a prime target for first day random votes, because we all know they are sometimes not completely random
. However given the nature of the player concerned and taking into account that he can count on support to not lynch him the first day, someone decided to hunt him instead. This could have been random, but I think it is more likely that this person had a problem with the last game. A little grudge about the way it was GM-ed. While we all cry out as soon as there is a hint of metagaming, we all use it at one point in the game. I think that this was a metahunt. I hope that I am wrong, but I don't think I am.
Either he was hunted by someone who didn't like the last game or he was hunted by someone who wants to frame the people who didn't like last game. Like I said earlier, I think it is the first case, but there are just too many people who fit into that profile. When I started this post, I hadn't exactly realised that there are just too many possible suspects for this post to be of any use, so I just want to say that I think this is bad form.
Hunting the last GM the first night (while it is technically fair that he isn't excluded from the target list) excludes him from two games in a row. In one of these he tried to make the game more enjoyable for us. If a GM succeeded in that attempt or not should not matter. Anyway this is just a little food for thought. I have of course no idea if any special treatment is the case here and I am not against hunting the last GM early as long as he is given the same treatment as the other players.
