The Syndicate

I did a host-based info-dump in my A World Apart game on LP, and it got my Serial Killer lynched. He had the power to protect himself at night, and there was only one other (Civvie) role in the game that could do that. He was targeted for death on such a night, and I wrote the post in such a way that it looked like he was targeted and protected. I was still learning how to host back then, I guess, and this was a hard lesson. The implication was all too clear, and he was promptly lynched. I should have made it a LOT more vague.

Metalmarsh, BR and I plan to do a reboot of the Buffy game that was our first ever co-hosting project, and I'm also working on a sequel to that LP game, called A World Reborn. This sequel will be similar in structure to the LOST game in that there will be a map to move around on in addition to the regular Mafia thread, and we believe we've identified the major flaws in LOST, so we're confident that this game will be a lot better!

We will host either of these games as soon as possible here on The Syndicate, I don't know how long it will take before we get in to the current rotation.

I'm not opposed to hosts doing a bit of non-randomization with roles. I don't support giving players you like the best roles, or to always making Long Con the Baddie Leader, or anything like that... but if you want to have an info role, maybe tweak your randomization a little to make sure a new player that role, a player who won't yet understand the subtlety that we prefer goes along with a role like that.

Another fun tactic that BR and I have used in the past is The Hunger role. The Hunger has taken a couple of different forms, but its base form is a "forcing" role. Force you to vote someone, force you to make a case against someone, etc. Normally, this kind of thing would fall prey to a cousin of Info-Drop, where someone can make it obvious that they're being forced, so that the rest of the thread innately understands the forcing was happening. With The Hunger, you put the fear into players... they are responsible for making damn sure no one realizes they're forced, or The Hunger kills them. Brutally. Suddenly. No appeals.

The player will sometimes ask questions of the Host, probing to see how far they can toe the line... and our response is always "If you don't know what will anger The Hunger, then your best course of action would be to tread lightly." Fear is a powerful motivator.