Iron Butterfly wrote:So let me ask this to those who desighn games. Should a player pay attention to lore or is that hit or miss dependent on the mod? In hindsight lore played a big part of our game but folks could just as easily say that it does not mean anything. Personally I think this is a great way to play as it gives more info to use.
On a side not I want to give a hand to Slow
for a well thought out game. When I was complaining at the beggining about Sheilds behavior I didnt mean for it to come across as an indictment of your modding. I did however beleive it was somthing that needed to be adressed.
It cracks me up created all this drama as a replacement and then in the end does a dissappearing act.
I think lore is definitely useful in determining who is "town" and who is "mafia" (although sometimes you do get the roles reversed.
For example, were I to run a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mafia game, I could have the turrtles + friends= town and shredder+baddies= mafia, or I could have Shredder+ baddies= town and the turtles+friends= mafia.
Also, certain characters can lean towards certain roles, which may make fakeclaims or regular claims a bit more persuasive/ridiculous. Taking the above example, Shredder would most definitely be the Mafia Godfather or at least a mafia role with night abilities. April O'Niell on the other hand would probably be some sort of watcher or tracker role.
So in conclusion, yes, flavor does help, but it's not necessary to be familiar with the series/theme to play. Good scumhunting and discussion trumps flavor spec any day.
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I was so tired when i cut and pasted my claim...I had insomnia and kept thinking about the silly game... I wasnt thinking and blew it. How frustrating.
