I would have tried if I weren't Rocket! And I did get the greek fire one by myself just with more clues than I should have.
Pretty sure that's the only one I solved by myself as well. I *might* have gotten one of the clues from someone else... not sure.
I recall getting a couple by myself and might've been able to do others if I had them just sort of laid in front of me instead of having to scavenge hints by PM, but still, those are work.
Groups are just there to help you get PMs with host clues in them.
Then you solve them by yourself and post the answers in spoilers. Or on the inside of the forum's private boards.
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I'm rethinking doing my Zelda game so close on the heels of Austin's Zelda game. I might run a simple meme-themed game and jump back in the queue again. "Dicks Out For Phallambe", I'm thinking.
I won't revolt. Can't speak for everyone. How would the mafia select their kills?
To clarify, "no private communication" would be a general rule, with some exceptions allowed by roles/powers. Mafia of course would still get to have a PM/proboard, because I have seen games where mafia were not allowed to communicate privately, and they were disasters.
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One of @ObiFett 's Star Wars games didn't allow for much private communication.
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I think that was the Space Battle one.
That game was specifically me screwing around with communication standards. We had two separate threads and each player could only look at one, mafia didn't even have a proboard, no one could PM, etc.
That game was specifically me screwing around with communication standards. We had two separate threads and each player could only look at one, mafia didn't even have a proboard, no one could PM, etc.
I really enjoyed that one, not least because I decided to roleplay as someone who used all the slang from the 90s X-Wing novels. I am under the impression others enjoyed that part less.
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That game was specifically me screwing around with communication standards. We had two separate threads and each player could only look at one, mafia didn't even have a proboard, no one could PM, etc.
I really enjoyed that one, not least because I decided to roleplay as someone who used all the slang from the 90s X-Wing novels. I am under the impression others enjoyed that part less.
On the contrary, I enjoyed it a lot.
The mechanics were interesting during that game, I just got mad cause we as the rebels were so close to winning but Malkor didn't make a move he was supposed to and we lost.
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I didn't really think about following both threads while being a reserve.
Hum, I guess I will sign up to run a game, then. The worst that can happen is it being a disaster, right?
Sometimes disasters are educational!
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“You can't give her that! It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!'
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
I knew as soon as I saw the CAPS it was Terry Pratchett.
My eyes are still tearing up when I think about the fact that he's gone from this world...
Speaking of tearing up, I've decided that after this string of battle phallas and not liking the fact that battling has very little to do with them, that I'm going to create a battle phalla that actually involves fighting! I kinda ran into a road block on my Mortal Kombat themed one (as in the file that I had everything written in was on my laptop which is dead. So instead, I've decided that I'm going to work on a World of WarCraft phalla based on the Legion expansion since it's perfect for a battle phalla. So expect that some day.
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Looks like I'm next!! Sign ups should (hopefully) be up by tomorrow.
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Or I may wait till Saturday. It depends what all I get done tonight.
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Hey, some of us have been dead for days here!
In all seriousness, take your time.
I'm thinking we might be getting back towards multiple games at once at some point.
It has been awhile since I've run something hasn't it.
I'm building out an experimental Meta game, and I'm wondering if there's a common list of overall Phalla types?
Battle, Faction, Vanilla..... are there other major classification types?
I was wondering about a similar question recently.
I think there's an argument to be made for adding "game board" and "soft networking" as, if not genres, potential modifiers for the genres.
We really need a Dewey Decimal system for this shit.
I'm not really sure what you mean by genre? Soft networking isn't really a genre, its just something people do for fun to either lose games or horribly unbalance them depending on who you end up talking to.
I'm building out an experimental Meta game, and I'm wondering if there's a common list of overall Phalla types?
Battle, Faction, Vanilla..... are there other major classification types?
I was wondering about a similar question recently.
I think there's an argument to be made for adding "game board" and "soft networking" as, if not genres, potential modifiers for the genres.
We really need a Dewey Decimal system for this shit.
I'm not really sure what you mean by genre? Soft networking isn't really a genre, its just something people do for fun to either lose games or horribly unbalance them depending on who you end up talking to.
Well I think the definition of "genre" can be expanded or tightened as is most useful for different topics. With Phalla, I think it's more useful to expand it to include something besides "standard or faction". There's an argument to be made that all Phallas fall into those two categories, but then again all books fall into "fiction or non-fiction" and we don't consider those to be the only useful genre designations.
I think that there is a certain style of game which mechanically emphasizes the importance of soft-networking and people-reading, by making confirmable information hard to come by, or decentralized in nature. I feel that style of game deserves its own genre designation, and "soft-networking" seems like the best option to me.
As to my other example, I think it's a meaningful distinction to discuss games that use visual game boards (like Obi's X-Wing game) versus ones that don't. Sure, maybe X-Wing was a battle game, but it wasn't just a battle game.
I fail to see what makes a game not a soft networking game. Except for maybe one that would not allow private communication. But that's an exception, not a genre.
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there are some that might encourage more soft networking, but those are usually faction games of some kind.
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Only you, man. Everyone else solves Most people solved them with a group.
I'm sure people need time to decompress from Burnage's game anyways.
Pretty sure that's the only one I solved by myself as well. I *might* have gotten one of the clues from someone else... not sure.
I recall getting a couple by myself and might've been able to do others if I had them just sort of laid in front of me instead of having to scavenge hints by PM, but still, those are work.
Then you solve them by yourself and post the answers in spoilers. Or on the inside of the forum's private boards.
I'll plan to put up a sign up on Monday.
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To clarify, "no private communication" would be a general rule, with some exceptions allowed by roles/powers. Mafia of course would still get to have a PM/proboard, because I have seen games where mafia were not allowed to communicate privately, and they were disasters.
That game was specifically me screwing around with communication standards. We had two separate threads and each player could only look at one, mafia didn't even have a proboard, no one could PM, etc.
I really enjoyed that one, not least because I decided to roleplay as someone who used all the slang from the 90s X-Wing novels. I am under the impression others enjoyed that part less.
On the contrary, I enjoyed it a lot.
The mechanics were interesting during that game, I just got mad cause we as the rebels were so close to winning but Malkor didn't make a move he was supposed to and we lost.
Sometimes disasters are educational!
IT'S A SWORD THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!'
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
My eyes are still tearing up when I think about the fact that he's gone from this world...
Speaking of tearing up, I've decided that after this string of battle phallas and not liking the fact that battling has very little to do with them, that I'm going to create a battle phalla that actually involves fighting! I kinda ran into a road block on my Mortal Kombat themed one (as in the file that I had everything written in was on my laptop which is dead. So instead, I've decided that I'm going to work on a World of WarCraft phalla based on the Legion expansion since it's perfect for a battle phalla. So expect that some day.
In all seriousness, take your time.
I'm thinking we might be getting back towards multiple games at once at some point.
It has been awhile since I've run something hasn't it.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/207054/supernatural-phalla-sign-ups#latest
Battle, Faction, Vanilla..... are there other major classification types?
I was wondering about a similar question recently.
I think there's an argument to be made for adding "game board" and "soft networking" as, if not genres, potential modifiers for the genres.
We really need a Dewey Decimal system for this shit.
Types?
I'd say there are two types, faction and standard.
Standard - An uninformed majority tries to oust an infiltrating informed minority.
Faction - Sometimes there is a mafia, sometimes its just competing factions. Sometimes people start masoned together, sometimes they don't.
I'd say all games are one of those two types. Does your battle game have factions? Faction game. No? Standard game. Or maybe not a phalla at all.
I'm not really sure what you mean by genre? Soft networking isn't really a genre, its just something people do for fun to either lose games or horribly unbalance them depending on who you end up talking to.
Well I think the definition of "genre" can be expanded or tightened as is most useful for different topics. With Phalla, I think it's more useful to expand it to include something besides "standard or faction". There's an argument to be made that all Phallas fall into those two categories, but then again all books fall into "fiction or non-fiction" and we don't consider those to be the only useful genre designations.
I think that there is a certain style of game which mechanically emphasizes the importance of soft-networking and people-reading, by making confirmable information hard to come by, or decentralized in nature. I feel that style of game deserves its own genre designation, and "soft-networking" seems like the best option to me.
As to my other example, I think it's a meaningful distinction to discuss games that use visual game boards (like Obi's X-Wing game) versus ones that don't. Sure, maybe X-Wing was a battle game, but it wasn't just a battle game.
Does that make more sense?
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