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Mithalwen · 08-20-2011, 11:13 AM

Sorry I am not very artistic... or used to paint...

Folwren · 08-20-2011, 11:37 AM

Haha. You'd all probably be surprised at how close I came to seriously considering putting in a werebear-ish sort of character.

So....now that people have expressed what they liked and disliked about this game - if different rules were made to make the setup more even, would this general game set-up be worth while playing again? (Not that I'm planning to in the near future or even ever, necessarily, I just would like to know that maybe this idea could work...I don't like something of mine beinga complete failure.

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-- Folwren

Mithalwen · 08-20-2011, 11:45 AM

I am probably not the person to ask but I think something could be done maybe if htere was a set up a bit like in Saucepan man's game where there were two wolf teams. I have been watching a serial about british agents working with the resistance where the different cells were kept separate for security reasons and of course there was the De Gaulle resisitance and the Communist resistance.... maybe if there was effectively a double agent in one group and they don't know which?

Galadriel55 · 08-20-2011, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Folwren

So....now that people have expressed what they liked and disliked about this game - if different rules were made to make the setup more even, would this general game set-up be worth while playing again? (Not that I'm planning to in the near future or even ever, necessarily, I just would like to know that maybe this idea could work...I don't like something of mine beinga complete failure.

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-- Folwren

It wasn't a complete failure, Foley, I don't think so... And I think it would be even with some of the ideas hat were said. I thik that if the rules say that the game ends when the KD is killed, it makes the role near impossible. But a werebear or at least a cobbler might help.

Edit: xed with Mith. The double-pack idea is insane!!! in a good way. And it could very well even out the game.

Inziladun · 08-20-2011, 11:55 AM

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The double-pack idea is insane!!! in a good way. And it could very well even out the game.

Lottie's first modded game featured two competing packs, and it turned out to be delightful. Right, Pitch?

the phantom · 08-20-2011, 11:59 AM

One thing I definitely think should be repeated is the setting. I liked the idea of treachery at the Lonely Mountain. It was a good Middle-Earth story, and with more time on my hands (and probably the same goes for others) I would've tried a bit of RPGing. Especially if Kuru was in the game, heh.

Folwren · 08-20-2011, 12:16 PM

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One thing I definitely think should be repeated is the setting. I liked the idea of treachery at the Lonely Mountain. It was a good Middle-Earth story, and with more time on my hands (and probably the same goes for others) I would've tried a bit of RPGing. Especially if Kuru was in the game, heh.

This game with RPGing would've been awesome, I agree.

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Originally Posted by Mith

I am probably not the person to ask but I think something could be done maybe if htere was a set up a bit like in Saucepan man's game where there were two wolf teams. I have been watching a serial about british agents working with the resistance where the different cells were kept separate for security reasons and of course there was the De Gaulle resisitance and the Communist resistance.... maybe if there was effectively a double agent in one group and they don't know which?

Did the two wolf teams work against each other, or with each other?

If you all would like to know, the story idea came from the Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear. I love that story and I don't know how soon after reading it that I got the idea that it'd make a really cool WW game.

Mithalwen · 08-20-2011, 12:20 PM

Um we were working for ourselvesbut when our pack were doomed we tried to help the other pack though officially we lost when they won, I think Boro was Beorn with his own agenda... it is a while ago now.. we each got a kill bt we could kill each other I think

Pitchwife · 08-20-2011, 02:25 PM

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Did Foley not tell you that I guessed you the third night? She had informed me that no conversation would take place the first night I found you, but I asked her to at least inform you that I had successfully found you, and I have no idea if she did.

No, she didn't - which was just as well; meaning it would have been a little too much to ask for a Sweetheart to PM with on top of everything else. But I did some bluffing the Night before and told the Forge about some gorgeous she-dwarf with a silky golden beard.

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Originally Posted by Inziladun

The KD setup reminds me of Eönwë's long ago Night Guard game, in which I was the "saboteur" wolf, secretly on the side of the village. If I remember correctly, the village didn't even know one of the wolves was on their side, which made my job that much more difficult. Maybe having the KD's sympathies unknown to the innocents would have helped balance things here.

Ah, those were my newbie days... wasn't that the game where I went out on a limb defending you and almost kept you from getting yourself lynched on purpose, or some such?

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At any rate, Pitch was able to bring about a village victory here, where I failed miserably in a similar situation.

Oh come on, that's not fair. Your situation was a good deal more difficult then - we didn't know you were on our side, and any hints about your task probably wouldn't have been believed. With such premises, the KD role would have been rather more challenging.

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Originally Posted by Inziladun

Lottie's first modded game featured two competing packs, and it turned out to be delightful. Right, Pitch?

Yep. Each pack had to defeat the other as well as the village, and each had a Seerwolf, a Rangerwolf and another gifted. That was fun.

Inziladun · 08-20-2011, 04:51 PM

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Ah, those were my newbie days... wasn't that the game where I went out on a limb defending you and almost kept you from getting yourself lynched on purpose, or some such?

Something like that, though it's hard to remember specifics from so far back.

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Oh come on, that's not fair. Your situation was a good deal more difficult then - we didn't know you were on our side, and any hints about your task probably wouldn't have been believed. With such premises, the KD role would have been rather more challenging.

Yeah, maybe. That still smarts, though, as I feel now I could have done a good deal better.

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Yep. Each pack had to defeat the other as well as the village, and each had a Seerwolf, a Rangerwolf and another gifted. That was fun.

The third Giftedwolf was the ever-popular Unicorn, which I think was you that time.

By the way, I much approve of Mith's Emergency Werebear.

08-20-2011, 11:13 AM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Moddess' little helper... Sorry I am not very artistic... or used to paint... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

08-20-2011, 11:37 AM	#2
Folwren Messenger of Hope Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a tiny, insignificant little town in one of the many States. Posts: 5,076	Haha. You'd all probably be surprised at how close I came to seriously considering putting in a werebear-ish sort of character. So....now that people have expressed what they liked and disliked about this game - if different rules were made to make the setup more even, would this general game set-up be worth while playing again? (Not that I'm planning to in the near future or even ever, necessarily, I just would like to know that maybe this idea could work...I don't like something of mine beinga complete failure. ) -- Folwren __________________ A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. - C.S. Lewis

08-20-2011, 11:45 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I am probably not the person to ask but I think something could be done maybe if htere was a set up a bit like in Saucepan man's game where there were two wolf teams. I have been watching a serial about british agents working with the resistance where the different cells were kept separate for security reasons and of course there was the De Gaulle resisitance and the Communist resistance.... maybe if there was effectively a double agent in one group and they don't know which? __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

08-20-2011, 11:59 AM	#6
the phantom Beloved Shadow Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The Stadium Posts: 5,971	One thing I definitely think should be repeated is the setting. I liked the idea of treachery at the Lonely Mountain. It was a good Middle-Earth story, and with more time on my hands (and probably the same goes for others) I would've tried a bit of RPGing. Especially if Kuru was in the game, heh. __________________ the phantom has posted. This thread is now important.

08-20-2011, 12:20 PM	#8
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Um we were working for ourselvesbut when our pack were doomed we tried to help the other pack though officially we lost when they won, I think Boro was Beorn with his own agenda... it is a while ago now.. we each got a kill bt we could kill each other I think __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace