What a lively lurker thread. 
Rowain - before you deliver any more rants about how you played the perfect game, and my pack only had ourselves to blame for our mistakes, just keep in mind that I was pretending to be a villager framed by a wolf. I'm not actually upset with you, and I think you played very well (as usual).
It's funny to look at some of the things that were said in the game thread, about how Rowain wouldn't go after me unless he was 100% sure, and then compare it to the reality in this thread.
I think Rowain made a daring and fairly inspired play there, even if it may have been a little premature, since we weren't actually planning to hit him with a claim. I also agree that I may have been better off with a vanilla rather than silverblood claim, but I don't think it's a clear-cut thing. The silverblood claim made me a high-priority lynch target, which is useful when you're pretending to be the victim of a conspiracy. (Which I actually was.
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Anyway, I see what Lewwyn is saying about how you weren't supposed to claim any power roles, but Rowain was the one to pull the trigger, not me. So I feel like I'm entitled to point out the unfun aspects of that. This kind of nuclear war really seems inevitable with so many factions fighting to be the last man standing. Also, I sympathize 100% with Ichabod about how boring it must be to play as a villager when there is a new claim to be tested every single day.
That said, I do think Lewwyn did a great job both with the writeups and the initial setup here; it was very creative and novel, and I was happy to get a very interesting role. The issue of mass seer claims could probably be addressed somehow, for example by forbidding seer claims, but the prisoner's dilemma issue could not. Or rather, I think it should be acknowledged that a multi-pack setup is a prisoner's dilemma. (Oops, there I go again, suspiciously bolding a filler word.
) I've been having a hard time to adapt to that reality in the past two games. Next time I play as a wolf, I'm hoping it will be in a one-pack game, because overall I find that format more enjoyable, as a wolf. I like having the full picture and focusing 100% on deception and manipulation.
It will be interesting for sure to watch the end-game here. The tall alpha should have the upper hand since he managed to dodge the nuclear exchange so far, but I could also see the wolves self-destruct, leading to a village win.
Rowain - before you deliver any more rants about how you played the perfect game, and my pack only had ourselves to blame for our mistakes, just keep in mind that I was pretending to be a villager framed by a wolf. I'm not actually upset with you, and I think you played very well (as usual).
It's funny to look at some of the things that were said in the game thread, about how Rowain wouldn't go after me unless he was 100% sure, and then compare it to the reality in this thread.
I think Rowain made a daring and fairly inspired play there, even if it may have been a little premature, since we weren't actually planning to hit him with a claim. I also agree that I may have been better off with a vanilla rather than silverblood claim, but I don't think it's a clear-cut thing. The silverblood claim made me a high-priority lynch target, which is useful when you're pretending to be the victim of a conspiracy. (Which I actually was.
)Anyway, I see what Lewwyn is saying about how you weren't supposed to claim any power roles, but Rowain was the one to pull the trigger, not me. So I feel like I'm entitled to point out the unfun aspects of that. This kind of nuclear war really seems inevitable with so many factions fighting to be the last man standing. Also, I sympathize 100% with Ichabod about how boring it must be to play as a villager when there is a new claim to be tested every single day.
That said, I do think Lewwyn did a great job both with the writeups and the initial setup here; it was very creative and novel, and I was happy to get a very interesting role. The issue of mass seer claims could probably be addressed somehow, for example by forbidding seer claims, but the prisoner's dilemma issue could not. Or rather, I think it should be acknowledged that a multi-pack setup is a prisoner's dilemma. (Oops, there I go again, suspiciously bolding a filler word.
) I've been having a hard time to adapt to that reality in the past two games. Next time I play as a wolf, I'm hoping it will be in a one-pack game, because overall I find that format more enjoyable, as a wolf. I like having the full picture and focusing 100% on deception and manipulation.It will be interesting for sure to watch the end-game here. The tall alpha should have the upper hand since he managed to dodge the nuclear exchange so far, but I could also see the wolves self-destruct, leading to a village win.
If you know what I mean.
