French Revolution Mafia [Concluded]

[Snerk]

GG and gratz to le royalists! Thanks for hosting, GH. I'm impressed by the labour you've put into this. Was your interest and knowledge of revolutionary France already so keen or did you learn some things too researching for this game?

I guess my only redeeming factor this game is that Chox pinged me d1 so he was my top suggestion for the faction vig, though we settled for Logic instead. But after that he went of my rader and stayed there until game's end. I'm now ready to categorise choxorn among players where tone has little value in getting a town lean from me. Gimme something solid or you're a plausible lynch. This is why I was ready to lynch Winston despite his townieness. Cus he can fake dat sh*t.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Was your interest and knowledge of revolutionary France already so keen or did you learn some things too researching for this game?

A little bit of both. I already knew a fair amount but definitely had to do further research to fill out some of the character bios/the overall roster.

BTW, if anybody's interested in further reading about the period, I'd greatly recommend R. R. Palmer's Twelve Who Ruled, which is a very readable and excellent account of the actions of the Committee of Public Safety and a good look into the Reign of Terror as a whole. There's a reason it's bolded in my bibliography back in the first post.

[Arakhor]

Congratulations to Choxorn! I suppose that just goes to show that in a faction game, gamely insisting that you're only playing to your faction is a sure way to lose (unless of course you're the scum).

[Snerk]

I suppose that just goes to show that in a faction game, gamely insisting that you're only playing to your faction is a sure way to lose (unless of course you're the scum).

Agreed in theory but you still got to play to win, yeah? I mean sure the Zack and Manasi town purges were kinda instrumental for a scum victory, but it also kept their own factions still in the race. Wouldn't necessarily have played it different myself. Well except for the Monty vig, that still makes me giggle. Jesus christ.

[Arakhor]

Agreed in theory but you still got to play to win, yeah?

Yes, but in this case that meant actually killing Royalists. As should have been readily apparent, it doesn't matter if your faction is currently the largest if you haven't tracked down all the scum, because if the scum win, everyone else loses. And in the words of Kipling's famous poem, If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you deserve to win the game, as Choxorn did. The so-called "town" lost their heads and thus, in my opinion, did not deserve to win.

(Then again, I'm frequently terrible at this and I died early on, so my opinion is probably not worth very much.)

[Montmorency]

Royalist blocks were definitely a significant balancing element. The number of vigs may be too, in a way, but coupling them with opposing blocks was a good decision.

For my early suggestion in the Committee, removing most night powers from the factions would keep the lynches hot but would remove much of the sting from factional dynamics, which you might not desire.

For Committee powers, just to increase choice and variability I still recommend that the 5th member come with some extra power, but exclusive to the vig during the deployment. For example, at 5 members you could use a track and a vig, or a track and a jail/protect/block/etc.