Upick?

[Yume]

I want to play an Upick again. It's been so long since the last one. I love the idea of players picking the flavor they like. Host one, pretty please?

[Andrius]

They can be quite labor-intensive to design, which is something non-mods may not realize.

AGM had a hard time with CYS: A Monument of Sins, and my trouble with Encore II makes me second guess another take.

As a player and mod I would say I'm interested, but the design work under time pressure is considerable.

[callforjudgement]

Right, another issue is that even if you aren't under time pressure (and you are in a uPick), balancing a game where every player is a power role is hard enough in its own right, and in a uPick players would typically be disappointed with being vanilla. I've done uPick reviewing before now and I couldn't be confident that the setup ended up balanced; even in a regular Normal it's easy to miss a relevant interaction and there are quadratically more that you have to potentially deal with in a role madness game.

It'd be easy enough to run a uPick if the roles didn't have to match the flavour, but that'd be missing half the point of the genre. (It'd also be easy to run if the game didn't have to be within reasonable balance/swing/skew/kurtosis bounds, but abandoning that would be problematic in another way.)

[kuribo]

in a uPick players would typically be disappointed with being vanilla.

it's been five years since I replaced Scott Brosius in a Video Game U Pick and wound up vanilla because he picked Tony Hawk Pro Skater


I'm still mad at him about it

[SpyreX]

That was the best

[KuroiXHF]

in a uPick players would typically be disappointed with being vanilla.

it's been five years since I replaced Scott Brosius in a Video Game U Pick and wound up vanilla because he picked Tony Hawk Pro Skater


I'm still mad at him about it

Reminds me.I have a video game you pick coming up. I hope you'll join

[kuribo]

in a uPick players would typically be disappointed with being vanilla.

it's been five years since I replaced Scott Brosius in a Video Game U Pick and wound up vanilla because he picked Tony Hawk Pro Skater


I'm still mad at him about it

Reminds me.I have a video game you pick coming up. I hope you'll join

I'm so busy wallowing in existential misery that any game I joined would be an extension of that

Go read Catch-22 Mafia (aka the scum QT of shattered dreams) to see what ifs like when I post while depressed

[SpyreX]

I take it back. That was the best

[kuribo]

Ah the memories.

You can actually watch my marriage crash and burn in real time between that and the QT

[SpyreX]

Aww that's not the best. but that game

[Vi]

They can be quite labor-intensive to design, which is something non-mods may not realize.

AGM had a hard time with CYS: A Monument of Sins, and my trouble with Encore II makes me second guess another take.

As a player and mod I would say I'm interested, but the design work under time pressure is considerable.

Yeah. The whole point is that they're showcases of mod talent. My own attempt at one was... a thing that happened, although the Town was kind enough to mercy-kill itself before the setup could do much IIRC.

[Untrod Tripod]

I've really enjoyed the uPicks I've designed

[Andrius]

They can be quite labor-intensive to design, which is something non-mods may not realize.

AGM had a hard time with CYS: A Monument of Sins, and my trouble with Encore II makes me second guess another take.

As a player and mod I would say I'm interested, but the design work under time pressure is considerable.

Yeah. The whole point is that they're showcases of mod talent. My own attempt at one was... a
thing that happened, although the Town was kind enough to mercy-kill itself before the setup could do much IIRC.

You ran a CYS or an Encore?
Either way I missed it.
Unless you meant Xenologue? Which I was there for. >_>

I've really enjoyed the uPicks I've designed

I, too, enjoy watching my players suffer.

[Vi]

Unless you meant Xenologue? Which I was there for. >_>

Xenologue, the uPick you were there for.

[Untrod Tripod]

They don't suffer! Everyone who complains gets banned.

[Yume]

They don't suffer! Everyone who complains gets banned.

I can attest to this being true. I complained because of the choice I was given and I am now banned. Moral of the story: don't complain about your lot in life and.....



....just roll with whatever life throws at you

[Ranmaru]

I'm very interested in hosting a Upick that is swingy and also flavor intensive as long as I have at least one co-mod to plan flavor.

[Ircher]

I've really enjoyed the uPicks I've designed

Not here.

RadiantCowbells was a good U-Pick mod.