Admin Thread for WWLXX: At the Prison of Ice

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Oh no Legate, you blew my cover before checking first to see if the participants wished to physically harm anyone behind the "false start"! According to Mnemo your slip has cost me my life.

That was intentional. I had to act fast so that I don't get harmed myself. That's how the business works.

Anyway, I think the idea itself - speaking from my point of view as a Mod - was good enough and it indeed was something that sort of coped with the "Day 1s are no good"-issue (I must say I liked it the most when I was reading these comments on the thread too and thinking "just you wait..."), on the other hand, it sort of created Day 1 all over again. At the beginning of Day 2, I was wondering if people would not actually consider it boring that we have Day 1 again (even though with some more information and stuff).

But I just wonder if there would be any other way to bypass the "random Day 1" issue - as this one idea is basically impossible to re-create.

[Mnemosyne]

Aha! A phantom sighting! *dons camo*

And Legate, thank you for outing this miscreant, as going over to Europe to hunt you down and kill you would have been much, much more expensive...

As far as "fixing Day Ones" goes, the easiest way to deal with the problem in my book is to have rules sufficiently different that people can discuss new-fangled hare-brained schemes and thus 1). get some serious discussion done and 2). have some concrete means of judging other people.

In a regular game, the closest way one can deal with such a situation is for one person to do something completely ridiculous, like vote on a grudge or go after someone for making a slip as to the number of wolves, to give everyone else stuff to discuss. But I can't think of any ways to repeat what you just did, unless someone announces "we can never do this again!" and then does it again.