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In post 99, Lukewarm wrote:

Paperback Writer
01/01/22	Lukewarm	fferyllt	Shakespeare uPick	Every inch of this game was dripping in the flavor. The mod got into character, changing her avatar to a picture of the great bard himself. Her posts were written in shakespearan English, even her short posts just designed to let her snag a page top for her vote count lol The flavor of the game, seeped into the the play of the players more then any other game I have seen. Multiple players throughout the game would post in rhyme, or meter, or shakesperean english - not because they were required to by the rules, but just because ever player was buying in the flavor of the game. When most games have players largely ignore the flavor, or maybe use it to analyze pr claims vs flavor claims, to see every player get into the flavor this way made this game stand out! Each and every role was a character or object in a shakespere play, with the roles tightly tied to the flavor. So far as for each ability name to be quotes directly pulled from shakespere's work. The flavor Mattered for play as well. Roles that were from the same play often had interactions between one another, and were placed into a hood together. Here is the mod's post game reveal of all role cards (link) just go see how much flavor effort went into just the role cards! Most players of the game ended up writing shakesperean sonnets for crying out loud. The game had a gold mechanic, as each player were an actor being paid to play their role, and on day 3, players could get an extra gold by posting a sonnet about the mafiascum site. And most of us did!

(also, a game about shakespere getting the flavor writing award just FEELS right lol)

In post 99, Lukewarm wrote:

Paperback Writer
01/01/22	Lukewarm	fferyllt	Shakespeare uPick	Every inch of this game was dripping in the flavor. The mod got into character, changing her avatar to a picture of the great bard himself. Her posts were written in shakespearan English, even her short posts just designed to let her snag a page top for her vote count lol The flavor of the game, seeped into the the play of the players more then any other game I have seen. Multiple players throughout the game would post in rhyme, or meter, or shakesperean english - not because they were required to by the rules, but just because ever player was buying in the flavor of the game. When most games have players largely ignore the flavor, or maybe use it to analyze pr claims vs flavor claims, to see every player get into the flavor this way made this game stand out! Each and every role was a character or object in a shakespere play, with the roles tightly tied to the flavor. So far as for each ability name to be quotes directly pulled from shakespere's work. The flavor Mattered for play as well. Roles that were from the same play often had interactions between one another, and were placed into a hood together. Here is the mod's post game reveal of all role cards (link) just go see how much flavor effort went into just the role cards! Most players of the game ended up writing shakesperean sonnets for crying out loud. The game had a gold mechanic, as each player were an actor being paid to play their role, and on day 3, players could get an extra gold by posting a sonnet about the mafiascum site. And most of us did!

(also, a game about shakespere getting the flavor writing award just FEELS right lol)

In post 101, Lukewarm wrote:To whoever is in charge of these things, can I recommend/request that next year the goodfellas and moment of brilliance awards be mirrors of one another?

	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award
Current:
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Team	Individual Game	Group Award
The future? :
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award

I very much wanted to nominate ydrasse for her scum performance in Open 812 Guardians of the Fortress, but it being required to be a group award feels werid. The rest of her team played well, but her performance was masterful. Like, best scum performance I have encountered. Left me scarred and scared of her for several game afterwards lol.

In post 101, Lukewarm wrote:To whoever is in charge of these things, can I recommend/request that next year the goodfellas and moment of brilliance awards be mirrors of one another?

	Moment of Brilliance	Best Town Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award
Current:
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Team	Individual Game	Group Award
The future? :
	Goodfellas	Best Mafia Performance	Individual Game	Individual or Group Award

I very much wanted to nominate ydrasse for her scum performance in Open 812 Guardians of the Fortress, but it being required to be a group award feels werid. The rest of her team played well, but her performance was masterful. Like, best scum performance I have encountered. Left me scarred and scared of her for several game afterwards lol.

In post 112, Cook wrote:

Players' Choice/Game of the Year
04/01/22	Cook	Firebringer	Masochist Mafia II	Need I say more? This game has spanned four calendar years and that's an achievement. To that end, that some of the people stayed in those slots from start to finish is alone insane.

In post 117, catboi wrote:I think the rules still only count stuff that ended within the calendar year, not the nomination period? which of course is kind of goofy given the game's timespan, but it is what it is

In post 110, fferyllt wrote:I second notscience's Rising Star nomination for Lukewarm and want to add a couple more games for consideration.

Rising Star
04/01/22	fferyllt	Lukewarm	In the Not Quite Normal large theme game, Luke was a significant member of the town that pulled off a perfect win. The setup was advertised as multiball with a double traitor. He went through the entire game coming under only the slightest suspicion early Day 1. His arguments for the day 1 elimination were strong enough to move several players onto the werewolf's wagon. He was extremely concerned that he was in a monkery (neighborhood guaranteed to not contain werewolves) with possibly two mafia, but kept his cool, fake claimed bulletproof just in case he was the planned night 1 kill, and ultimately came around (correctly) to seeing his hood as all town. It's easy to get lost in the fog of a multiball game, but Luke stayed focused and, as I said was a signficant factor in the win. In the first running of Guardians of the Fortress, Luke had the correct solve of his mini-game. Unfortunately, my heel-dragging led him to putting down a vote he correctly believed was wrong. This was a tough game with a very experienced player list. Luke used his prior experience with unwnd in his first newbie game to correctly call him scum. One of Luke's strengths as a player is his ability to take all the role-claim jigsaw pieces and see which ones don't fit from a balance AND flavor perspective. That takes a lot of homework sometimes. As his reputation as a player has amassed this year, his solves are getting listened to more and more, and his influence on games is going to continue to grow. To me, this is the very definition of Rising Star. Potential and reputation combine and lift a player into "beyond the ordinary" territory.