Werewolf CXLIII - League of Heroes of the Ancients

[johho888]

Note of caution:
In a big JL - where all the big players have flocked to the mouthpiece, the protectors, the seer and the priest - the detector is incredibly powerful. In this game, you didn't know it at the time, with no idea there was no GA or apprentice, but every person the detector scanned to be a non-villager had to be a baddie (correct me if I'm wrong). In a game where the JL can get every apprentice and important goodie to them, the detector has the possibility of being a seer and priest rolled into one.

I like the idea, it worked well here and I'd like to see it again. But to any future GM's thinking of using it, be aware it can be a lot more powerful than it would seem, and think carefully about how you'd balance it.

Yeah, if you use some extra type of scanner like a detector or a spy you need to cut back on the normal scanners. Having seer, priest and detector in the role list but only using two of them is what I would have done. Adds a bit of uncertainty to the setup which is good without messing too much with balance. (Similar to havinging GA, doc and padre in the rules but only using two of them)

For the baddie side actually having either a sorcerer or a detector but having both in the rules is what I would have done.

 

[johho888]

This. Bored out of my mind.
Sorry Ciry, I appreciate the GMing effort, but it's the truth.

It's why I try to always give everyone some kind of trait at least.

Everyone having at least a trait doesn't really help (and this is coming from a GM that usually sprinkles traits around).

The real problem with boring games for non-JLers/baddies is if there is too much information available and if baddies can't hunt who they know is important goodies and/or if the village can't lynch who they know are baddies. (either beca

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

The goodies weren't abominable. There just wasn't anything for the non-JL villagers to do.

Both scanners were out in the open following an avoidable stuff up. If it was a successful JL job, it was successful in the sense of Dunkirk

 

[Najs]

Both scanners were out in the open following an avoidable stuff up. If it was a successful JL job, it was successful in the sense of Dunkirk

I think jpr did rather well, for a newbie. EURO had bad luck. And there was no JL. Do note that once I was informed, we butchered every baddie on the scene at the time of this "Dunkirk".

As for this

Najs PMed me to say that I should not vote Rendap, and that he would make sure that there was a tamius and kiwi tie.

If anyone else was in contact with him, would they explain what the plan was supposed to have been, the rationale behind it, and why it didn't work? I was thinking that he might have been putting me on as part of a fake justice league, but now I'm just confused.

It was indeed the plan. Kiwi, you were literally one second and one click from being very dead one day earlier. But then I decided you probably weren't right and I simultaneously had a stroke of not caring so I ended up doing nothing.
In hindsight, I should have wasted you or Rendap anyway for the sake of dropping suspects. But somewhere deep down I also figured I might not be completely dead yet and if I lucked out and managed a save we'd have one more day if I didn't tie it.

 

[son of liberty]

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