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[Mini-Phalla] Newbie Phallas - GAME OVER - Cheaters / Honest Students Victories
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Yeah if you are a vanillager you should try to appear as special and helpful as you can.
You really shouldn't be too worried about dying though... it happens often.
Hmm.. Who to vote for.
The bandwagon on Erich Zahn for grudge or the group for SmugglyMcWeed because he posts in flamboyant colors or someone random.
blibblob
Delphinidaes
greentea
RainOPain
SmugglyMcWeed
Come on people.
That makes me the greatest ever.
Corollary: If you get the village to waste a vote on you, and you're a vanillager, that's bad. This is why spork and kime are not hailed as the greatest vanillagers of all time.
But the village sucks!
Considering the amazing speed at which Dac Vin composes his narrations...I would say about 10:01 EST.
There are two types of bandwagons:
1) The random type, just from out of nowhere: All of a sudden, votes start piling on someone for no reason or flimsy reasoning, and then people start dogpiling on "because there's nothing better out there". Mafia love these. They allow them to blend in and keep the vote off of them, while they're free to use thier powers and effects with little fear for that night.
2) The solid-info type. If you have good, solid reasoning that you believe a person is a mafia (as in thinking it out through voting patterns and the like, or the seer has found a mafia, then you have the backbone for a solid "get the mafia and then treat ourselves to cheezburgers" bandwagon. These are good.
Also, a bit on reveals- the Seer should NEVER, EVER reveal themselves. That is what a network is for- in short, you're a line of defense against mafia kills so you can keep the seer alive as long as possible.
Addendum: The village will inevitibly attempt to vote out the seer on day one. Reveals are a good idea then.
In advanced games where mafia have been given special powers, any special revealing is at risk. Common mafia powers that stymie reveals are bus drivers (switch all effects targeted between two people), role blockers (stops their power use for that night), and unblockable kills (what it says on the tin). You folks don't have to worry about that this game, but keep it in mind for the future. =)
To follow-up on what JaysonFour said, in many games typically a "network" forms of people who have been confirmed, one way or another, as being on the village's side. One person, usually a seered vanillager but sometimes the vig if he or she Day 1 called a kill, speaks for the network and reveals stuff like seering info or how they feel about current bandwagons. Everyone else in the network tries to blend in as a normal villager (or their normal play) so as to not tip off the mafia that they're in the network (and thus are highly like to be special).
Of course, networks like these are vulnerable to infiltration by quick-witted or clever mafia or lucky ones who have been granted a thrall-ability, but that's a more advanced discussion.
Further addendum: Typically, the mafia prefer to kill 'confirmed' goods as much as possible to keep the unconfirmed populace they can hide amongst as big as possible and make the seers and vigs work to find them.
While you lot may not have to worry about it now, if you ever host a game. NEVER. EVER. EVER. I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DO. Use a Thrall. They have an uncanny knack for being seer'd day one by the village and ruining everything. EVERYTHING.
Bold is not usually necessary, but it makes it easier to pick out.
And neither should you name them Vlad.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the host will give the mafia something really powerful to work with. Maybe somebody who is invincible under certain conditions (like Athan, from Phalliad). Perhaps a role that gains the abilities of dead players (Orochi, from King of Phalla). Until you know that there might be a role like this present - and if the host is nice, they'll hint at it - you can't really do anything to counter them. But once you're aware of them, it should be your priority to find them and remove them.
Sometimes - sometimes - it might even be worth working with the standard mafia, to take out a larger threat.
Remind me why you're still alive sir?
SmugglyMcWeed's vote was counted since his intention was obvious. In the future, try to make your votes bold and red.
Alright, do not despair, it's just a first year group, everything will be fine and all dandy...
Oh, hi students! The name's Dac Vin, and I will be your teacher for today's classes. It will be my job to teach, well, I'll tell you in a minute. For now, let's discuss important matters. Some of you might have noticed there's a bit less of you than last class, and I wish to illuminate the reasons of this.
First off, forgive my grumpiness, but I have just received word that blibblob, my assistant, well, yeah, see what I mean? They found the poor sod in the boiler room, blabbering stuff about the very scary top of the class student. I doubt he'll return soon enough to make a difference.
And now, the little talk about cheating. As you all know, cheating is a very verboten activity in this college, and anyone caught doing it will get a swift kick in the butt and out of this school. Which bring me to my next point - I spoke with professor Sunkist who teach Phallogy, and his last test brought light to some irregularities - or more precisely, there has been two case of answer sheet being the exact same. I won't speak much about it, but dunedainjedi and godmode will not be joining us for the rest of the session.
Which bring me to mister Erich Zahn. I've heard lots of bad rumors about you, my friend, and Sunkist told me you were extremely reticent about the "invisible" technique all the best phallers use. Well, let me tell you, you have one minute to get out of my class, and five to run to the Dean's office and explain this situation. Maybe you're not a teacher, but you are a bad student, and your behavior is despicable.
The rest of the absentees just simply didn't come for some reason. Nevermind, they'll have to ask for what I taught you.
The following student got the boot:
Erich Zahn - Student - Voted out
dunedainjedi - Student - Framed
godmode - Student - Framed
blibblob - Teacher's Assistant (Guard) - Talked to by the Top of the Class
Ladies and gentlemen, Phalla Hosting 101. Because after playing in many phallas, you too will want to know what it is like to host one. And when this time comes, we want you to be ready. Because you are our own future.
Alright, canned message out of the way, let's talk hosting, and to do so, I though it would be a good idea to bring you behind the scenes and see how this phalla works, and put my own observations to them.
This is not exactly a recommended behaviour. Optimally, you do not want to rush things up because that increase the chances of hilarious blunders happening. Take your time start with a concept and refine it, write everything in advance. This counts double for a main phalla - there, you're expected to have spent a good deal of time on it.
For example, if you read the postmortem of my last mini (The Scarlet Devil and the Witch Thief), remark how I spent a few weeks sitting on a already finished mini before I went with it. This is overkill, but that's a good way to do things - it hasn't killed anyone, at least.
And so ends the first part of Phalla Hosting 101. And veterans, if you have any tips to give on the matter, you can always do so in the usual manner.
Day 2 has begun.
YOU ARE A SMELLY PIRATE HOOKER!
Even in the newbie game we kill the spread sheeter....
Also, the guard? Eep, that's not a good thing, I gather.
Two specials lost: guard and spread-sheeter!
Also out-of-phalla:
Exceiting to hear about the hosting tid-bits, too! I loooove game mechanics (and code my own games in spare time) so when I discovered this game I soaked up what I could so love hearing the things from the DM/designer/etc point of view -- definitely a neat idea to do this!
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Admittedly the last minute voting, "inactive" all day guard, so I won't hate you forever, vig person.
Edit: And CorpseRT, if the spreadsheeter HAD been a baddie, at least we'd have killed one. That would be an improvement!
After you've designed the basics of your game, take some time to write good Role PMs. Unless the entire focus of the game is on having an unreliable narrator and Role PMs that lie (in which case you're a terrible person), the clearer and more concise the better. Your players will not be happy when they get killed or make wrong plays if you mislead them not on purpose.
Actually, you know what? Just head to the Lounge and check out one of the many advice threads.
Also, point of order: spreadsheeting is not a special ability. Anyone can do it. But it seems I was right when I added the nuance that mafia love to kill spreadsheeters as opposed to them being voted out. :lol:
You should have seen Phalla King.
(Vig kill guard, Serial killer kill Vig, Seer reveal the day after. At least they only went after the spreadsheeters on day 3!)
UPDATE: I still don't trust Spectrum.
That was a great day one. And the mafia put their kills on me and Spectrum, weeee.
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If I was an actual participant in this game, I'd probably have earned another death by now.
The reality of why my text was multicolored? I was stoned, and bored...
That and a certain fountain drink told me that 'Man you should RP this' and I was like 'uhm...ok maybe I guess and such'.
Day 2: !GreenTea because she is uhm....idk. Untrustworthy and such.
EDIT: And because she messaged me to make my vote in red, and said it in the Thread. That level of obsession with red can only be evil!