Biggest regrets:
1) Didn't get to call enough people mongrels
2) Nobody told Sakura they liked her fish
3) Illya didn't get to tell everyone why she doesn't need to be best girl
4) Archer didn't get to do the Unlimited Blade Works chant
5) Not enough sex based win conditions
6) No chance to post romantic scenes filled with incomprehensible metaphors about defenseless scubasuits
7) No jokes about blue dolphins or golden dragons
8) No jokes about granny bikes or berser-car

Best things:
1) Kirei winning the best girl vote twice
2) Getting to say "people die when they are dead"
3) Shirou magnetting Caster while she's doing a mana transfer
4) Bob correctly guessing Gilgamesh/JoH needed to be lynched
5) This

ColonialBob's Archer Role

Adamical's Saber role

Rokk Krinn's Berserker role

Grizzzadams' Lancer role

Afrcngy's Rider role

Darkstone's Caster role

Justphilthy's Assassin role

Hidden stuff/Game notes
Though I didn't realize how worthless the location mechanic was (random throwaway nights and stalling encouragement) and how overpowered lynching was compared to nightkills, I did realize that the game would start a little slow and I was fine with this.

With that in mind, the best girl mechanics and high number of day powers were primarily to give players something to talk about. Nobody ever discussed anyone else's day powers and other than Archer trying to make deals to get votes, nobody really discussed the best girl mechanics, preferring to vote only.

There was no rule against pming other players (or people not in the game). This was intended to give a leg up to more observant players and promote teamwork between selfish players against others, particularly Berserker (if he was killing), Caster (if she was recruiting) or Rider (if Blood Fort was activated). Doesn't look like that happened.



Saber/Shirou

Shirou gained magnet abilities, power copping and passive protection from training. He'd need to save whoever was best girl to win. If Saber was best girl, she'd win with a happy ending for the town and would gain Avalon, a one shot bulletproof and kill PGO that covered both her and Shirou.

Her investigative power was too weak. Shirou's heroicness was supposed to encourage team Saber to team up to eliminate the villains but that didn't happen.



Archer/Rin

If Rin was best girl, she'd mason with Shirou and would win with a happy town ending. After a few days, Archer would separate from Rin (now part of Team Saber) and become a free killing player who needed to eliminate Shirou. If Archer died, he'd take control of Rin again.

Rin's possible win condition switch and alliance power were intended to give the player some stake in lynches despite starting with a selfish win condition. The writeup would also give team Archer a horse in the race, particularly if Sakura went rogue.


Berserker/Illya

No hidden info. Should have made Berserker's kill work every night.

Berserker was intended to worry players into action by being an unstoppable killing machine but he never managed to make a kill or be at the right location to make a kill attempt. Freddy mechanics fail when the Freddy isn't playing. He did try to have Illya kill Kotomine, which I should have put in the writeup. His secret identity didn't matter so that was intended to let him be a mouthpiece and spur discussion but it didn't happen.


Lancer/Kotomine

Lancer had the mod on his side. I would determine tie breaker votes (saving Bob from lynch once) in Lancer's favor and then in the favor of players who were participating more. Kotomine (and I) only wanted an interesting game, after all.

Lancer's win conditions were intended to give him motivation to eliminate some players and target others at night. It was also to skew things towards the good guys and away from the bad.

Kotomine would kill any female master that lost their servant and didn't mason with Shirou. After two players had died, Gilgamesh would appear and kill a third based on lowest post count but would only succeed if Lancer had learned that player's Noble Phantasm (or if he made the 10% roll). Gilgamesh would need to be lynched as Jackofhearts. He would attempt more kills every so often and would have had his own account. Gilgamesh came in early out of my frustration.

If Kotomine was voted best girl three times, Sakura would be best girl. Kotomine would skew votes towards the good guys if Sakura was best girl, the bad guys if Saber was best girl and nobody if Rin was best girl.



Caster/Kuzuki

They couldn't screw except at Ryuudou temple.

Caster was given lots of protection, a huge post count production advantage and (if Assassin had participated) twice the day votes. Like Berserker, this was intended to make her look threatening and make other players want to team up against her. Though Darkstone participated, the skew of voting being way more powerful than night action prevented her from being perceived as any more dangerous than anyone else.


Assassin

This role was specifically given to JP because I knew nobody would guess his id. His ability to kill or be killed without id knowledge was intended to prevent stagnation. He was another Freddy, as anyone with a low post count would be an easier target. Still, the location mechanic neutered him in theory and execution. A barely participating player would not likely come to him and he didn't participate anyhow.

If Sakura was best girl, he'd be immediately killed and replaced with True Assassin (new avatar, same account), which is why Caster and Assassin were encouraged to not share their ids. True Assassin would have misdirection abilities, a master killing power for his "Darks," immunity to some of Saber's and Sakura's killing powers and a heart grab noble Phantasm kill that would let him guess twice at a player's id and succeed if either was correct. He'd gain Zoken as a master, who had similar powers to Illya and Shinji in terms of nightkilling masters, giving post restrictions and resurrecting the dead.



Rider/Sakura/Shinji

Shinji couldn't ever #### anyone. He's got no game. Shinji would always follow Rider to wherever she was going if she was taking offensive action because Shinji loves violence. Failing to meet Shinji's post restrictions would give a different penalty based on the situation, only ever taking a life from Berserker.

If Shinji was killed before Rider, Rider would win with the town. If Rider was killed before Shinji, Sakura would leave the game and Shinji would mason with Gilgamesh.

If Sakura was best girl, she'd mason with Shirou and win if there was a good ending. She'd also gain a power called Wishful Thinking that would allow her to tell me her favorite and least favorite players remaining and give bonuses and restrictions to them, respectively. This power would actually attempt to nightkill the least favorite with a ~50% chance of success. The writeups would point to Sakura as responsible, leading to an "us vs them" showdown with any surviving players that didn't trust the Shirou/Sakura pairing with the new True Assassin role as a wildcard.

Though Rider's powers and win conditions were all over the place, she was meant to play the role normally filled by the serial killer. A standard serial killer speeds up and balances the game by killing members of the winning faction. Sakura could literally speed up phases, Rider could make lynches almost instantaneous and kill masters and surviving members of team Rider would generally join one faction or the other, moving from neutral to invested. These speedy day powers were never used (so as not to draw attention?) and the game didn't progress far enough for the rest of the hidden mechanics to come into play.

Awesome roles, as expected. Pity it didn't really work out - I think all this game really needed was some kind of incentive to post (well, and active players). First game we had to figure out the whole tentacle monster thing, which made us talk.

Also:

Which comes back to the day/night imbalance and lack of participation. Berserker, Rider and Caster were all supposed to seem threatening but because they either didn't use their powers or their powers were far less dangerous than they should have been, nobody was worried about them the way they were worried about the tentacle monster.

Plus, said imbalance meant players were encouraged not to talk, which snowballed as posts not made didn't illicit reactions from others and so on.

In hindsight, the whole best girl thing didn't lead to much discussion because really weighing in on what route would be best would basically read as "I am Darkstone/Bob/Rokk/Truffle."