GET BEHIND ME, SATANIn post 24, hitogoroshi wrote:vi I'd play one if you played one
My last three games were like hemlock soup for the soul, and after each one I was like "this was traumatic enough that I won't need to worry about being tempted into another game".
I even refuse to play games like The Resistance IRL on principle. I climbed a tree to avoid playing One Night Ultimate Alien at Calimeet.
The problem with Mafia in a community setting is that either I'm weaponizing all the things you like about me against you, or you're spending the entire game paranoid that I'm weaponizing all the things you like about me against you (and of course the reverse applies as well). We could be playing any game that doesn't have hidden allegiances and
(If you invert the argument, I'm saying that using Mafia games to punish people I don't like is way more satisfying than playing to win.
I think people have known this for the entire time we've been onsite, but they've rarely expressed it in these terms.)
Counteroffer: Host a meet; I'll bring board games.