Cool. I guess that would make sense. Misdirection means bad info.

I always try to say

"The person you investigated _______________________"

whether there was a misdirection or not. This way, they never know.

That's probably the way I'm going to do it.

Now that I have written all the roles for my game (with a good deal of JoH's help), I'm going to go back and read this entire thread and see if there is anything I want to change.

I know that I am probably going to skip word and exel all together and use post-it otes and bulliten boards. Its easyer for me to understand for some reason.

with misdirectors I don't even say when that happen.

I just give the answer like if nothing happen. after all they were misdirecting but they don't know that. and they should not know, I think.

Q was awesome in your game my friend!

Personally, I'll be like "Andy is good."
And they'll be like "I investigated Drake."
And I'll be like "I know, but you found out that Andy is good."

Yes, they know they were misdirected, but I get to see the look of confusion on their faces.

For roleblocked, I let investigators know they found nothing, but I don't tell them why.

I say when people get blocked.

I think they have such a great work in planing something and they deserve a answer of why they don't get to do his "work". But that of course is just my opinion.

As I'm sure you know, players in my games get responses that say "fail" or "insert alignment here". I don't reiterate who they targetted so as not to mislead them into thinking they were or weren't misdirected. I also don't indicate why they failed if they did. It's all up to them to figure out. Is that tougher? Yep, but I do the same for everyone so it seems fair in my eyes.

THANKS!!

How do you find out who they are misdirected to? Do you just put all the currently active players' names in a hat and pick?

And if a tracker is misdirected, how does the process work and how is the response worded?

random.org has a random number generator.

If player A targets player B for tracking and is misdirected to player C, they get the result for player C. So if player B targetted player C, and player C targetted player D, then the result would be "player D".

So if Truffle targets Carlos and Truffle is misdirected to sstral, then Truffle gets who sstral targeted, say JackA.

Now if Carlos is a killer and kills JackA, Truffle will think sstral is the killer, right? So you send a PM to Truffle saying what? sstral targeted JackA? Or just JackA? Or JackA was the target? And I guess the info will show up in the write up, right? But do you show in the write up somehow that Truffle was misdirected? Or does Truffle have to figure that out when she accuses sstral of being a killer and sstral tries to talk his way out of it, claiming misdirection and all that? And Carlos just sits back and laughs.