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Reading through the roles, I'm not sure if having a robber is a good idea in a pick point game. If a lot of people choose robber and they steal a lot of baddie roles, it could really break the balance of the game.
Robber only steals the traits, not the role, so I don't think that will be a big problem. Robber is a rather expensive trait, at least for a goodie, so I don't expect there will be very many of them around but you never know what people (or zombies) will pick. OTOH and goodie robber maganed to demote the seer to villager in a game I hosted so everything is possible I guess. :D

The roles are not in italics.
Will fix that.
 
Would have worked. Could have, should have, but you didn't, and now I am upset.

Especially because you even included long-absent players like Orange Yoshi.

never speak ill of the unmerged
 
Here is a funny name for you: Wagonlitz.
I don't see how it's funny; you Italians have a strange humour.
I tried but, like with Tornadoli, I gave up after not finding something that would make for a name that was funny or obvious-obscure or at least possible to remember. Wagon would be Carriage and litz is like blitz so could be flash but Carriagelash is not really a name that sticks. I did all those names in like fifteen minutes so if I didn't come up with something immediately I just moved on to some other forum nick.

EDIT: Obviously I should have gone all norse on it! Vagnblixt or maybe som reference to Thor's goat carriage?
For the future then Wagonlitz is a bastadisation of Wagons-Lits which were the extremely luxurious carriages e.g. used on the Orient Express. @k-59 I assume you realised that years ago, but might as well ask you whether you had realised it or if you had missed it. Tam asked me years ago where I had the nick from due to him realising the connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits

Reading through the roles, I'm not sure if having a robber is a good idea in a pick point game. If a lot of people choose robber and they steal a lot of baddie roles, it could really break the balance of the game.

Also,

The roles are not in italics.
Pickpoint games almost always are unbalanced; it's only a question about how unbalanced. DG for instance decided to roll with brutal van Helsing once which while it sounds cool is a bit of a waste of the points for brutal. And there could well be no scanners at all. It's part of the charm of pickpoint games.

Though there's other possible issues with the robber; unbalancing the game isn't one of them though. And we haven't had the robber for a very long time so I'm game on trying it again. Especially given it isn't the variant killing people.
 
I don't see how it's funny; you Italians have a strange humour.
For the future then Wagonlitz is a bastadisation of Wagons-Lits which were the extremely luxurious carriages e.g. used on the Orient Express. @k-59 I assume you realised that years ago, but might as well ask you whether you had realised it or if you had missed it. Tam asked me years ago where I had the nick from due to him realising the connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits

I always thought it was a bastardisation of "Wagon's Schlitz".
 
I always thought it was a bastardisation of "Wagon's Schlitz".
You mean Schlitz as in the German word Schlitz? And why would Wagonlitz be a bastardisation of that? And if so then what would the Wagon part refer to? No, the explanation is really boring. Back when I was something like 8 I needed a nickname for online gaming/MP and I thought that using the name of the carriages of the Orient Express would be cool. Misremembered the spelling though and wrote it as Wagonlitz instead of Wagons-Lits and I've stuck with the error it since then as I find it a good nick so why change.
 
Oh and while Wagon's alert was well timed in drawing my attention to this thread, responding to him caused me to forget the more important article.

IN.
 
I wonder what my fake name was. Probably, Johho88 forgot me.
 
Huh, what an interesting idea. Not enough to make me want to join, as I have reservations on how these zombies will work, but it's the type of creative idea I'd expect from johho. I'll be watching this game with interest.
 
Huh, what an interesting idea. Not enough to make me want to join, as I have reservations on how these zombies will work, but it's the type of creative idea I'd expect from johho. I'll be watching this game with interest.
The zombies were a spur of the moment thing based on the usual 'werewolf is dead' talk in the general WW thread. I think I know how to handle them but I'd like to tests some ideas about it with someone who isn't playing. If I really can't convince you to play, maybe we could talk it through?

Also I invented a new creative way to spell "42"!

Oh, meant to say; 'forty-two' is spelled wrong.

:p
Will you play? Or will you let KCan't the zombie defend the Norwich colours? Are there any Norfolk celebrities for her to play?

The fake names are brilliant :D I assume I'm Tank Driver?
Yes, you are and well, they at least generated a lot of talk. I was thinking people would be more interested in the zombie concept rather than their zombie cousins.

I wonder what my fake name was. Probably, Johho88 forgot me.
No, just couldn't make up anything interesting. sea->land but what of Rov?
 
I've already announced my participation as a Norfolk celebrity!

Hack GM is hack!
Great! :)

How about your zombie cousin then? Is she game?
 
IN as Keanu Reeves

Dude's supposedly an immortal, so this should be an easy win for me.
 
I don't pretend to understand what all these rules are, (what "pick point" means, the jester role, and the entire concept of zombies rather baffle me)but anyway
IN
 
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