It will certainly be an interesting game from my end, having only seen around 3 episodes of the show. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I think I may have missed some sort of new article that went with this.

I think I'd be terrible at Mafia in person. I have an awful poker face.

Oddly enough, this is totally true.

I don't know. I actually word my CMD's as "Target players A&B. You will misdirect player A into player B." That way, it's obvious what sort of result a tracker would get.

I have a great poker face in poker (or rather, I know how to create a perception using my body language and expressions and intentionally do so), but I have an awful mafia poker face.

I'm thinking of rewording mine: you target person A, who will then target any person B of your choosing.

Telepath is a weird example. Think instead of a simple interaction:Tom comes up to Bill and tells Bill, "Joe just took your wallet." Bill steams off to go after Joe.

Who did Tom interact with? Bill. Did Tom interact with Joe? No.

He All whats shaking!

Been a while anything crazy happen =P

Past Season 6. I have a new favorite character to dislike (besides Jake Sisko). Ezri Dax is just a waste of material. Good thing that she won't be in the game...

Targeting and choosing are the same thing. A rose by any other name...

All of this CMD stuff becomes a lot simpler if everyone accepts the simple common sense principle that whomever a person submits to the mod via their PM as the recepient(s) of their power, is/are their target(s). Did the CMDer submit two names to the mod? Yes? So how many people did he target? Two. This is just like teaching a 4 year old math...

GFF what happened to your game?

I have played a number of games, Magic being among them, where this is simply not the case. I think Darq's suggestion makes more sense for mafia.

Also, this.

I got sick. By the time I got home from work I was exhausted, so I didn't work on anything. People stopped sending in actions, and that always discourages me. (Even right now, I have actions only from a slim majority). This includes some actions that would be highly beneficial to the town.

At least two people who have asked about the game (either through PMs, through this thread, or in other game threads) failed to provide an action. Normally when I get discouraged while running a game its for this reason: if the players don't care enough to play, I have a hard time convincing myself to work on it either. This game was especially work-heavy, as I wrote a LOT in each write-up. I am trying to get back into creative writing, and I was using this as a transition.

Now that I am feeling better, I am having a hard time restarting it.

Well I checked and I definitely sent mine in. Who are all these slackers? They weren't in my game, I can tell you that.

It feels a little bit odd that mystics isn't my avatar anymore.

I won't name names.

The problem is two-old. I want to encourage participation without pestering people.

Hell, I should just bust that out tonight even if I end up awake until midnight and randomize actions.

No worries GFish, I was just curious, but I totally understand.

To offset Obamacare, some restaurants are charging a surcharge (1%-3%) that is to go towards their workers' healthcare, rather than raising menu prices, or making all their workers part-time.

Sure, you're point of view makes sense form a purely online/message board view. But in a theme game, I - as a mod - treat whats going on as real to a "story" as possible.

Say I have a Control Misdirector, Purple Man, who goes up to Jessica Jones, and tells her to attack Scarlet Witch, who's a mile away. A Tracker, Black Widow, sees Purple Man talking to Jessica, from afar. Tracker sees the interaction, but can't hear what's being said (we'll ignore the fact that BW would know Purple Man is evil).

I also like to include logical "hiccups". So if Purple Man tried to Control MD a deaf character... say, Echo (she's deaf, right?), I would make it Fail since they couldn't hear it, even if I had forgotten to include that as a "spoiler" bit.

But I think we've established numerous times (Infinity Gauntlet and X-Cutioner's Song spring to mind) that I get way too attached to the "story" aspect sometimes...