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Friday Fun Thread for March 31, 2023

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I asked Bing AI to help me make a Blood on the Clocktower character, here's the result: https://i.imgur.com/ZXqkSAP.png

It's an actually interesting character, I discussed it with the pals and they thought that it was quite overpowered if anything.

Also it was a flash in the pan, it took me a while to convince the AI to help me (it kept insisting that it was not a game designer for some reason), then I got this, then I got about a dozen of nonsense/boring suggestions.

On a related note, come play with us in our Blood on the Clocktower discord! https://discord.gg/wJR87pjK

It's a variation on Mafia/Werewolf but with several important distinctions that make it superior, and especially superior for internet games, and even more superior for text games with 24h/game day (but we also play voice games sometimes btw!).

First of all, everyone gets a character with an ability. Abilities are designed to be interesting and include stuff like "if you die in the night, choose a player, you learn their character". Second, dead players' characters are not announced, they can still talk with the living, and retain one last ghost vote, so if you get killed you're still fully in the game and maybe even more trusted. So you get games where everyone is engaged from the very start--because you want to privately claim your character, maybe as one of three possibilities, to some people--to the very end when you cast your ghost vote for who you think is the demon.

Lately we had some rdrama people join (including Carp himself!) so it would be nice to balance their deviousness and social reads with having more themotte folks. We were historically very balanced: https://i.imgur.com/gcotalV.png

My favorite voice game (not our group, but we have had similar shit going down): https://youtube.com/watch?v=r9BNc-nDxww?list=FLRMq6rziC28by3Xtvl8VcEg&t=246

I want to reiterate that it's worth trying a game if you're at all interested. You can dip your toe in and play a traveler who can come and go at any time or just read some of the archived games to get an idea. We've onboarded dozens of players with a wide variance of interests and people are constantly needing to explain niche game mechanics to each other so it's really no big deal if you don't know anything before joining.

the games are wacky and fun! whether you're someone like @carpathianflorist who will trust someone for no reason at all, whether you're like @aqouta who wants to build charts to figure out who the demon is, or like me who will get into a counterclaim with my own minion my first game, there's a lot of fun to be had!

I am the smartest

It’s a very fun game, can confirm. Also that character is interesting but OP as hell! Maybe like, rewind one action once.

It's not really OP in my opinion. It's sort of like a gimped Professor: resurrects a player but only the last executee. And like the Professor if it's out the Demon can just kill him. But on the other hand you get the whole day of info about who nominated who and who voted for who, so that could be incredibly strong.

It's strength will really depend on some key rulings in edge cases. The interesting bits are if you blow it to do something like get an extra savant read but the savant ends up being a minion just pretending

i think the thing too with is that for savant an ST can just give them the same savant bits if seems too overpowered. it's definitely useful though and i think it could be very useful.

The ST can give you the same Savant info, welcome to the Groundhog Day. Fortune Teller and the like which get to choose what info they get, get a bit OP. On the other had, the evil get to redo their actions too, in the light of what's revealed. Or kill the Timekeeper if it's too scary.

The main problem with it as I see it is how dependent it is on synergies. Most other characters in the game work alone somewhat even if they also have strong synergies. This ability is basically useless unless it's used to accelerate something else.

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