design philosophy wise I modelled this game after Varsoon's game design, with particular inspiration from Saga Frontier
I really hated the specific nonstandard win condition in that game but I thought that the idea was still overall interesting enough to want to design one and how to implement one is something I've thought about quite a bit over the years so I was quite happy to see the role that Sakura submitted
If she was town she would have had a similar 13 pointer but it would have had a Mecha'cthun inspired win condition that required her to be hammered by scum in endgame with her vote on herself but I didn't fully flesh it out
NK15's role is outside of the typical scope of one of my games but I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out; I know that several people were unhappy with how it played out and I do think that it's reasonable not to expect something like that in one of my games if you're expecting an experience consistent with my past moderating experience but I was going for a different approach to the game to see what people's thoughts were
if there's anything else people want to comment on or ask me, feel free!
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
I don't like games to be solvable by role claim. GrandpaMo had an even better fakeclaim in my opinion, but just because someone's claim is towny != they are town.
When I design scum roles I design their town claims first so that every scum role I design has a role that fits neatly into the game overall.
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
Her role denied town 1 lim that no living or dead townie would have advocated be used on her. I think when 13/14 of the dead town call you town you deserve to have nice things. If her role didn't exist she still would have won this MyLo so
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
I think Sakura played very well and overall scum made fairly good night actions and town tied their hands up but still managed to keep punching themselves in the face. I'm happy with the outcome and not really sympathetic to people who think Sakura's alt wincon was unfair outside of a broader 'alt wincons are unfair', town has a long list of powerful roles and the vast majority of them were not used well enough to win even in a setup that was specifically designed to prevent town from accruing clears and guilties over time. Shout out to Jjh for the 1-shot bodyguard death speedrun
Also something to seriously consider about Sakura Hana: if her role is so town what if it's a lie? No one can verify praying to her or not, you know.
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
I don't think Sakura did anything that doesn't align with her fakeclaim and i think that she can easily just say "yeah i disloyal vigged [blank] tonight, so we are liming in [other two] without much questioning if the alt wincon doesn't pan through which is the power of scum having coherent fakeclaims and playing to their fakeclaims
I understand SS not going with his fakeclaim in the state of the game but i don't think Sakura can really be trapped mechanically outside of 'how are scum this braindead just sitting and watching while she systematically obliterates them'
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
I don't think your fakeclaim is horrible to be honest, just that it would have taken a solid 3-4 hours of backtracking to reverse engineer viable target selections for
Basically I'm telling you not to claim the roleblock because it allows you to use it fully proscum and also to claim something that likely doesn't reach lylo but is also almost never elimed early and to try to bring down Ydrasse
Redirector claims redirect because it's an absurd power role, you get to use the vanillaizer as a purely proscum action, and by outing it and possibly giving Taly his IC status you can keep the role alive to play disruption all game. Queen is actually the 'best' role that scum has given that Sakura's is very feast or famine.
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
personal/hydra PTs will only be released under specific request, mod pt contains discussion pertinent to potential future games so that's not gonna be released either
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.