I don't see it making any flavour sense for a Babysitter to have a gun. (In addition, the Babysitter doesn't kill its target; the flavour is that the person who kills the Babysitter kills the Babysitter's target too.) So I'd personally be against Babysitters having guns.
Some more changes. I'm just gonna make this thread the official place for me to announce any changes in normal games at all, not just those pertaining to the big shift.
oh wowie. the hybrid thing is a lot of entropy. there's probably more to think about in terms of modifiers for that type of role (e.g. something like "clumsy" which can only use all roles on the same target or not at all; or something like "2-total-shot" between multiple roles)
Since this was bumped again I'll point out that, as I mentioned elsewhere, named townies don't appear to be explicitly whitelisted.
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who say, ‘There are two kinds of people in this world: those who say there are two kinds of people in this world,
In post 180, Umlaut wrote:Since this was bumped again I'll point out that, as I mentioned elsewhere, named townies don't appear to be explicitly whitelisted.
These are Normals, not Opens (where you know a named townie is in the setup) or Themes (where you can get flavour hints from a name).
The only way a named townie differs from a regular townie is in Rolecop results (and it's normally possible to find an appropriate non-vanilla role if you
really
need that interaction in your setup; Miller is a common choice). Named Townie might be a commonly used role, but it really doesn't make sense in closed, unthemed setups.
In post 178, implosion wrote:Multitasking roleblocker doctor. This role would be able to roleblock someone and protect someone, and could do both on the same night, either with the same or with different targets.
By the way, this has a role name already: Split Jailkeeper.
Which is exactly what the name implies; it splits the halves of the jailkeeper role and allows the user to both block and protect, but not requiring them to be the same target.
I think the "assembled from components" name there makes much more sense. With a real-life jail, you can't take the walls with you, and lock someone else in place without them.
time for other reasons, but got in the mood to mod again. Noticed these changes..
I'll rant about it later (let's just say I feel responsible for these changes.. I was obsessed with the greylist).
For now some simple questions.
This thread mentions standardized rulesets and role PMs. The wiki page for normal games does not. I have no idea where to find them.
Are they standardized or not?
If I in for a normal game now, is all I need the set-up (since the other stuff is now standardized), or do I still need to include the OP, ruleset, role and result PMs?
In post 184, Sméagol wrote:This thread mentions standardized rulesets and role PMs. The wiki page for normal games does not. I have no idea where to find them.
Are they standardized or not?
If I in for a normal game now, is all I need the set-up (since the other stuff is now standardized), or do I still need to include the OP, ruleset, role and result PMs?
My understanding is, we're aiming to get to that point, but because of the nature of the task being quite significant to hash out, needing to synchronize between two separate groups, and relatively speaking being fairly busy backstage, that we haven't gotten to the point where we can implement it.
So yes, you need to include OP, ruleset, roles, and result PMs...
for now
, but in the future that will change.
In other words, the
end goal
is that those won't be necessary, but we're not to the point where they're
In post 185, mastina wrote:
So yes, you need to include OP, ruleset, roles, and result PMs...
for now
, but in the future that will change.
Thanks!
Like I said, I'll save the rant for later, for now I'll say I'm disappointed with the removal of "greylist" roles, but also the standardization of rulesets and role PMs. The reason for the latter is that I'd like my formatting style to be the same regardless of queueu. It's not all bad, especially if the process is actually sped up (my last normal review took 3 months). And I like the additions to the whitelist. A lot of set-up ideas were invalidated, but the one I intend to run, was actually whitelisted.
And.. I am kinda inspired to seek out the limits within the new normal guidelines. Especially with the new combination roles which is something I can really use, I probably can think of "crazy" set-ups. Which just leaves me to be disappointed with the standardization.
Anyway, I'll prepare all my stuff while I still can, and I'll enter the queueu in the weekend.
That should be fine; modifiers applying to other passive modifiers is something that exists (e.g., odd-night bulletproof), and it seems generally acceptable. Technically day-specific isn't a modifier (day roles aren't normal), so you'd have e.g. a night 2 informed townie who receives information on night 2.
I somewhat feel like the interaction between Mafia Traitor and Vigilante needs a bit more explanation somewhere so that it is clearer whether simple parity is enough to reach an endgame condition in games with vigilantes, especially since odd/even vigilantes are increasingly common in normal games.
In addition to the already-whitelisted Traffic Analyst, another variant of the role, PT cop, is now whitelisted. The distinction is explained on the wiki:
Traffic Analyst:
target a player. You will learn whether or not they have the ability to communicate privately. This requires that they are in a private topic (neighborhood, masonry, or scum) with at least one other person also alive in that private topic. It should return a negative result if they are the only person left alive in any private topics they have access to, and should resolve after kills.
PT Cop:
target a player. You will learn whether or not they have access to any private topics with other players. Other players in private topics do not need to be alive for this role to receive a positive result.
The opening post will be updated with a note for this.