Tol-in-Gaurhoth (Isle of Werewolves)

[Kuruharan]

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).

I'm afraid it might be way to easy for people to just slip back into their normal personalities without thinking of it. (I mean, it is their normal personality after all ). I think that this would also happen as the pressure mounted.

Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure that at some point (pretty early on) I'd not be able to keep myself from slipping back into my usual verbal pomposity.

[Durelin]

A few wins in a row doesn't necessarily mean they have the 'upper hand.' It's like flipping a coin. You may get 'tails' ten times in a row, but if you flip it enough times, it's going to even out. Maybe. At least, I think there's a good bit of luck involved, as well as skill.

I had proposed a 'masquerade ball' game some time ago that I still wish to do, in which people try their hardest to play as their chosen masked identity would play (their identity for the 'ball' being that of another Downer).

But...

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.

I guess that rules that out...

I would love to run a game (though I guess not quite like what I had in mind), but I'm not sure if I can manage it right now. I'd like to keep my name on the mod list, though, if at all possible, for sometime soon (maybe not until mid-late November, though, for 'Thanksgiving break')...

Edit: I just went to look again at the old 'TiG scenarios' thread, and see that you commented on my idea, Nogrod. Did you ask the BW about that one, or another similar idea...or just the general idea of 'identities?' Just out of curiosity.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I'm afraid it might be way to easy for people to just slip back into their normal personalities without thinking of it. (I mean, it is their normal personality after all ). I think that this would also happen as the pressure mounted.

Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure that at some point (pretty early on) I'd not be able to keep myself from slipping back into my usual verbal pomposity.

I fear you're more than right here Kuru. That is the real problem. Under pressure one tends to go for one's normal self and that's it. But maybe we could try? I don't know. That was why I asked your opinions...

Originally Posted by Durelin

I had proposed a 'masquerade ball' game some time ago that I still wish to do, in which people try their hardest to play as their chosen masked identity would play (their identity for the 'ball' being that of another Downer).

As we discussed this earlier (if I remember this right?), I love the idea, but it would require some really wholeheartedly involved Downers to actually carry the masque of another Downer. It would be more than fun indeed. It would be just great, but it would require lots of involvement too. We should have to require an oath before the gamethat everyone is knowingly bound to playing a certain role... Those roles could surely be handled secrectly between the Mod and the players and the players should have the freedom to choose anyone they wish?

Sorry to be pessimistic about this one. Even though I would love it!
(Just thinking of myself playing in a role of fex. my daughter Lommy - being able to be as witty as she is and as flip-floppy at the same time! )

[Nogrod]

Sorry to double-post...

But it just came to me. If I were to play this game of "don't be yourself", I might fex. try to be like Spawn and post rarely but with damning analysis of those I think suspicious, not trying to explain any points made over myself or overtly anyhow. So just playing the cool analysist. It might be both rewarding and fun-fun-fun.

So there are many options to all of us. Just trying not to play as one would normally do - even if the situation is tight (yes Kuru, I still am afraid you're right about this, but at least I myself would be ready to try it, whoever mods the game).

[Durelin]

Yes, you're quite right about the dedication. Really, I was thinking mostly that choosing other 'roles' would just have been fun, and I wasn't really all that concerned with whether or not people stick to them really really closely or anything. I never really expected anyone to be able to do it. But perhaps the fact that it would simply be for humour/entertainment reasons means it's not a very good idea, either.

I should perhaps take these things more seriously? Probably.

I guess making sure people took the game seriously but keeping it all in good fun is constantly a precarious balance. I don't expect extreme dedication out of anyone, but perhaps I should expect more? I don't quite know.

Obviously it can't hurt at all to tell people that they should try to play differently than they have in the past in a (the next?) game, but I don't think we should put so much pressure on such that it be 'bad' if someone slips back into their old habits, which they will most likely do, anyway. Still, if perhaps there is some rhyme or reason to the new style of play, it might actually be easier for someone to try and play differently? Thus, maybe choosing certain roles/styles (not necessarily other 'Downers as in my one idea), would actually help? *shrugs*

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Still, if perhaps there is some rhyme or reason to the new style of play, it might actually be easier for someone to try and play differently? Thus, maybe choosing certain roles/styles (not necessarily other 'Downers as in my one idea), would actually help? *shrugs*

That is just what I meant! If people are given something like an overall freedom from their past - in a sense that no one can somehow suspect any other from the behaviour of their "ancestors" as it is the central thing of this would-be game to handle it otherwise - it will give everyone much more space and thence making the game much more fun...

[Durelin]

Cool, cool. Should these changes of style and the like be official, in that each player must (or maybe not must, but is encouraged to) choose one, and inform the game moderator of it (maybe only if they wouldn't mind), though of course not the other players? That might give people a little more insentive. Is that what you had in mind? Of course, there would be no penalty from straying from their chosen 'style,' but perhaps, after the game, those that don't mind could reveal the 'style' they chose, and people could let them know how well they think the person stuck to their chosen 'style.' Could start a mini WW 'workshop' group or something.

(Sorry if I'm just repeating what's already been said. I'm having a little trouble following things tonight.)

[Nogrod]

Well. In earnest I believe we might make the 15 players (about) with a game with not-normal roles.

But making the same amount with definitive roles (eg. Nogrod playing Spawn, Valier playing Spm, Lommy playing Glirdan... etc.) will be much tougher.

I would love the last one, but I'm also afraid we will not have enough players here. Prove me wrong...

And really, if someone in the line of the TIG-thread wishes to take the game, please do take it. I have just volunteered because of my sick leave and because no one seems to be wishing to go for it.

[Durelin]

I'd say go for it if no one speaks up soon, though of course first dibs should go to the rest of the people left on the mod list who have not passed their opportunity aside for now, I believe.

Diamond
Oddwen
Folwren

Are the next three on the last list who have not yet passed on modding, I think...

(I'm working from Naria's post.)