Galaxy Quest Mafia

[Nanook]

What if the ability could only rez a NK? That at least eliminates the part where Sarris could undo a good lynch.

Then it's kind of useless to the mafia, isn't it?

Although...I guess the mafia could NK one of their own,then resurrect them...make it look like Nesmith rezzing a townie...but then we're right back to where we started, with it being more useful for the scum than the town, and me wanting to lynch Nesmith right away.

[kimpossible]

What if the ability could only rez a NK? That at least eliminates the part where Sarris could undo a good lynch.

Then it's kind of useless to the mafia, isn't it?

Although...I guess the mafia could NK one of their own,then resurrect them...make it look like Nesmith rezzing a townie...but then we're right back to where we started, with it being more useful for the scum than the town, and me wanting to lynch Nesmith right away.

That was my thought, yeah. But that at least seems like it has room for speculation. Like, in Guards! Guards!, a member of the scum team used it on one of their own to make themself look townie. Didn't entirely work, but this seems like it would kind of live in that same conceptual space.

So I'm not convinced that necessarily makes it more useful for scum than town. It means that town are more wary of trusting someone Jason rezzes. But if scum kills their own to get a rez then town isn't down a player, and we're looking harder at both the rez and "Jason."

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[kimpossible]

What if the ability could only rez a NK? That at least eliminates the part where Sarris could undo a good lynch.

Then it's kind of useless to the mafia, isn't it?

Although...I guess the mafia could NK one of their own,then resurrect them...make it look like Nesmith rezzing a townie...but then we're right back to where we started, with it being more useful for the scum than the town, and me wanting to lynch Nesmith right away.

That was my thought, yeah. But that at least seems like it has room for speculation. Like, in Guards! Guards!, a member of the scum team used it on one of their own to make themself look townie. Didn't entirely work, but this seems like it would kind of live in that same conceptual space.

So I'm not convinced that necessarily makes it more useful for scum than town. It means that town are more wary of trusting someone Jason rezzes. But if scum kills their own to get a rez then town isn't down a player, and we're looking harder at both the rez and "Jason."

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Used the Gonne on one of their own, should have said. Got tangled up on my own thoughts.

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[Nanook]

I'm fairly risk averse as a town player--if the mechanics you're talking about are implemented, I would still say kill Nesmith right off the bat. Because there's no way as town you can know who you're rezzing...and if Nesmith is scum then it's still a fairly useful tool for them. So if I'm town in that situation, I'm almost certainly lynching Nesmith, and if for whatever reason we don't lynch Nesmith, I'm lynching the person he resurrects.

[condude1]

Is the Omega-13 an instant ability (for lack of a better word)? As in, can you fire it between when the NK resolves at night, and when the alignment reveal occurs for the day before?

Also, with rules as written right now, couldn't someone fire the Omega-13 after their own death? It says "any time", not "any time that you remain in the game".

[Telleo]

Is the Omega-13 an instant ability (for lack of a better word)? As in, can you fire it between when the NK resolves at night, and when the alignment reveal occurs for the day before?

Also, with rules as written right now, couldn't someone fire the Omega-13 after their own death? It says "any time", not "any time that you remain in the game".

True - I'll rewrite to not allow self-res. You can activate the Omega-13 at any time, but since the NK resolves at the same time as the alignment reveal for the previous day, there isn't space to active between them. Activation requires posting to the thread- I would not allow Nesmith to active at a time of his/her choosing in the future. He or she has to actually post to activate, not just say "Activate between the NK and the reveal."

[Keirador]

It sacrifices flavor, but I'd be inclined to give the PR a vanilla claim. Right now, mass-reveal of character identities outs the PR immediately, and I'm in agreement that I kill the PR right away, for the 50/50 shot.

[kimpossible]

It sacrifices flavor, but I'd be inclined to give the PR a vanilla claim. Right now, mass-reveal of character identities outs the PR immediately, and I'm in agreement that I kill the PR right away, for the 50/50 shot.

What's PR?

[Telleo]

It sacrifices flavor, but I'd be inclined to give the PR a vanilla claim. Right now, mass-reveal of character identities outs the PR immediately, and I'm in agreement that I kill the PR right away, for the 50/50 shot.

What's PR?

Power role.

Right now, I like the idea of focusing on one or two players, and I'm toying with making this a reskinned Spy vs Spy mafia. Have two players that are publicly known to be either Sarris or Nesmith (they'll both claim Nesmith). I'm rewriting the rules now, we'll see how it ends up.

[Nanook]

It sacrifices flavor, but I'd be inclined to give the PR a vanilla claim. Right now, mass-reveal of character identities outs the PR immediately, and I'm in agreement that I kill the PR right away, for the 50/50 shot.

What's PR?

Power role.

Right now, I like the idea of focusing on one or two players, and I'm toying with making this a reskinned Spy vs Spy mafia. Have two players that are publicly known to be either Sarris or Nesmith (they'll both claim Nesmith). I'm rewriting the rules now, we'll see how it ends up.

I think I like the sound of that--it makes it a lot harder as town to just say "Let's lynch the PR right away then play this essentially as vanilla." If there's two PRs and one of them has utility to the town, that's a lot harder choice to make. I still might be tempted to say lynch both of them first and get it out of the way, but that's a much harder choice to make when there's two as opposed to just the one.