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Old 10-16-2006, 04:52 PM   #3570
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If we are in actual need for the next one to host a game, I might like to try one as I have almost two weeks of sick leave left after the surgery I underwent last thursday, and even though I have a pile of exams to check and a need to arrange things for my substitute next week, I think I would have time to think about a game too...

I know, I've enlisted myself to the Junior thread modding but if no one will start a new one here, then I could do it (and remove my reservation from the Jr. thread then).

What I had in mind would be quite a basic game but with the overall assumption that everyone would be free to try very different approaches than they normally do. So outspoken ones would be able to just leave occasional notes of being present and giving "random votes" and those normally quiet could go on theorising without being suspected of that changed behaviour...

I'm not sure if that is a good idea as there is the danger that the vocal ones turn silent but the silent ones don't turn vocal. But I think there are other ways of "being different than normal" than just on volume.

The best way for this would surely be playing with false identities, but as B-W turned this option down quite definitively when I inquiered it the last time, I'm not going to try it again. But we could just play a game with the presumption that no one plays like one usually does. That would give everyone a chance to play in a different role or stance from what they have been used to and try different things if referring to earlier instances would be somehow denied or at least discouraged (as it woulds be an open option to play differently). And newbies surely would be welcomed too.

In the Grimoire-thread it is noted that the villagers are taking the upper hand. Now if the earlier playing styles couldn't be referred to the scales would be more even?

I'm not wishing to push myself or my ideas but I just saw that there seems to be a problem here and I might have the time to build up the next game. Surely anyone next in the line may take the game - and feel free to use my suggestions as well - I would be the first one to assign myself to a game like that...

And if you see problems in my proposal, please voice them.
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