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Legate of Amon Lanc · 10-06-2011, 04:42 AM

I don't know how my time/participation will be (depending on when we are planning to start), but then again, I haven't played WW for ages, so whatever! I think I'll play.

As for the setting, I am more than happy with a simple game, but the werebear-thing, if it comes to be, sounds also rather brilliant (and in any case, while it's a "non-basic" thing, it still isn't anything groundbreaking). I think there isn't any rule-issue or imbalance-issue if I think about the werebear (apart from "woe be us if the WWs actually succeed in turning him!). Maybe just this question - will turning the Werebear mean that the WWs will get an extra kill per Night? Or will it mean that the Werebear would simply become a Wolf, and thus, the number of kills per Night will actually drop at the point when he is turned? Or maybe the number of kills will depend on the number of WWs - say, we have 3 WWs in the beginning, they have one kill, but once they become four (by turning the WB), they get an extra kill, but once one of them gets lynched, they are back at one kill? I am also currently trying to figure out whether it might not be interesting, in such a case, that the Werebear would be actually the figure granting the extra kill - i.e. the kill will not depending on the number of WWs, but on the presence of the WB. Once the WWs lose him, there will be one kill less, but if there is e.g. just one Wolf and one Wolfbear, they still get two kills. Maybe that idea brings in too much inbalance, however (or more like, confusion). But just as food for thought...

Also, once the Bear has been turned a Wolf, if all the "natural" WWs die but the Wolf-Bear survives, will it still count as Wolf victory? (I'm assuming yes, but just for the sake of clarity I am asking this now...)

That is, if we really get to have a bear in the end anyway...

satansaloser2005 · 10-06-2011, 05:45 AM

It's about bloody time....sir.

You KNOW I'm in. When is the tentative DL?

Inziladun · 10-06-2011, 08:21 AM

Sign me up, naturally.

A Little Green · 10-06-2011, 11:12 AM

Count me in, son.

Kath · 10-06-2011, 12:13 PM

Assuming the DL is doable for me I'm going to say I'm in. It's been waaaay too long!

Kitanna · 10-06-2011, 12:59 PM

I'd like to join, but I must say upfront" I have one hour of activity on my lunch break and then four hours at the end of my work day and maybe half an hour before work if I wake up. I'll play if the DL works in my schedule. I die way too often because I've had to vote early and disappear.

Bom Tombadillo · 10-06-2011, 03:33 PM

Sixth/Seventh! (Which is to say, I'm in).

10-06-2011, 04:42 AM	#1
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	I don't know how my time/participation will be (depending on when we are planning to start), but then again, I haven't played WW for ages, so whatever! I think I'll play. As for the setting, I am more than happy with a simple game, but the werebear-thing, if it comes to be, sounds also rather brilliant (and in any case, while it's a "non-basic" thing, it still isn't anything groundbreaking). I think there isn't any rule-issue or imbalance-issue if I think about the werebear (apart from "woe be us if the WWs actually succeed in turning him!). Maybe just this question - will turning the Werebear mean that the WWs will get an extra kill per Night? Or will it mean that the Werebear would simply become a Wolf, and thus, the number of kills per Night will actually drop at the point when he is turned? Or maybe the number of kills will depend on the number of WWs - say, we have 3 WWs in the beginning, they have one kill, but once they become four (by turning the WB), they get an extra kill, but once one of them gets lynched, they are back at one kill? I am also currently trying to figure out whether it might not be interesting, in such a case, that the Werebear would be actually the figure granting the extra kill - i.e. the kill will not depending on the number of WWs, but on the presence of the WB. Once the WWs lose him, there will be one kill less, but if there is e.g. just one Wolf and one Wolfbear, they still get two kills. Maybe that idea brings in too much inbalance, however (or more like, confusion). But just as food for thought... Also, once the Bear has been turned a Wolf, if all the "natural" WWs die but the Wolf-Bear survives, will it still count as Wolf victory? (I'm assuming yes, but just for the sake of clarity I am asking this now...) That is, if we really get to have a bear in the end anyway... __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

10-06-2011, 05:45 AM	#2
satansaloser2005 The Sweetest Spoiler Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: from beneath you it giggles incessantly Posts: 5,789	It's about bloody time....sir. You KNOW I'm in. When is the tentative DL? __________________ "My heart always cowers behind the defense of my wit." Friendship is two pals munching on a well-cooked face together. Fenris bookworm.

10-06-2011, 08:21 AM	#3
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	Sign me up, naturally. __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

10-06-2011, 11:12 AM	#4
A Little Green Leaf-clad Lady Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,571	Count me in, son. __________________ "But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."

10-06-2011, 12:13 PM	#5
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	Assuming the DL is doable for me I'm going to say I'm in. It's been waaaay too long! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

10-06-2011, 12:59 PM	#6
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	I'd like to join, but I must say upfront" I have one hour of activity on my lunch break and then four hours at the end of my work day and maybe half an hour before work if I wake up. I'll play if the DL works in my schedule. I die way too often because I've had to vote early and disappear. __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

10-06-2011, 03:33 PM	#7
Bom Tombadillo Wight Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Behind you . . . . BOO! Posts: 222	Sixth/Seventh! (Which is to say, I'm in). __________________ Every human should have a cat or two in their care, to teach them the meaning of the word, and to correct them. Phenris Dorph