Tol-in-Gaurhoth (Isle of Werewolves)

[Anguirel]

Well I'm fairly certain Fea's busier still, for at least a week, so she told me. morm - the parcel's in your hands.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

Well I'm fairly certain Fea's busier still, for at least a week, so she told me. morm - the parcel's in your hands.

Indeed. *sigh*

I should *crosses fingers* be clear to think about this again after the 20th, so whenever after that circumstances allow...

[Diamond18]

If neither Morm or Durelin are able (heh, this next game seems to be the hot potato of WW) then it's my turn... and I'm rather busy this next week, but no busier than I'm likely to be for the next X number of weeks. So I'm not adverse to setting up a game whenver the potato may land in my lap. Of course, the game I had in mind requires a fairly large amount of players. So if everyone is too busy to mod, that doesn't bode well for the kind of game I have in mind.

[Volo]

I have nothing against the next game starting next month, but I somehow doubt that others will agree...

[Nogrod]

If we are in actual need for the next one to host a game, I might like to try one as I have almost two weeks of sick leave left after the surgery I underwent last thursday, and even though I have a pile of exams to check and a need to arrange things for my substitute next week, I think I would have time to think about a game too...

I know, I've enlisted myself to the Junior thread modding but if no one will start a new one here, then I could do it (and remove my reservation from the Jr. thread then).

What I had in mind would be quite a basic game but with the overall assumption that everyone would be free to try very different approaches than they normally do. So outspoken ones would be able to just leave occasional notes of being present and giving "random votes" and those normally quiet could go on theorising without being suspected of that changed behaviour...

I'm not sure if that is a good idea as there is the danger that the vocal ones turn silent but the silent ones don't turn vocal. But I think there are other ways of "being different than normal" than just on volume.

The best way for this would surely be playing with false identities, but as B-W turned this option down quite definitively when I inquiered it the last time, I'm not going to try it again. But we could just play a game with the presumption that no one plays like one usually does. That would give everyone a chance to play in a different role or stance from what they have been used to and try different things if referring to earlier instances would be somehow denied or at least discouraged (as it woulds be an open option to play differently). And newbies surely would be welcomed too.

In the Grimoire-thread it is noted that the villagers are taking the upper hand. Now if the earlier playing styles couldn't be referred to the scales would be more even?

I'm not wishing to push myself or my ideas but I just saw that there seems to be a problem here and I might have the time to build up the next game. Surely anyone next in the line may take the game - and feel free to use my suggestions as well - I would be the first one to assign myself to a game like that...

And if you see problems in my proposal, please voice them.

[Kuruharan]

But we could just play a game with the presumption that no one plays like one usually does. That would give everyone a chance to play in a different role or stance from what they have been used to and try different things if referring to earlier instances would be somehow denied or at least discouraged (as it woulds be an open option to play differently).

I'm afraid it might be way to easy for people to just slip back into their normal personalities without thinking of it. (I mean, it is their normal personality after all ). I think that this would also happen as the pressure mounted.

Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure that at some point (pretty early on) I'd not be able to keep myself from slipping back into my usual verbal pomposity.

[Durelin]

A few wins in a row doesn't necessarily mean they have the 'upper hand.' It's like flipping a coin. You may get 'tails' ten times in a row, but if you flip it enough times, it's going to even out. Maybe. At least, I think there's a good bit of luck involved, as well as skill.

I had proposed a 'masquerade ball' game some time ago that I still wish to do, in which people try their hardest to play as their chosen masked identity would play (their identity for the 'ball' being that of another Downer).

But...

The best way for this would surely be playing with false identities, but as B-W turned this option down quite definitively when I inquiered it the last time, I'm not going to try it again.

I guess that rules that out...

I would love to run a game (though I guess not quite like what I had in mind), but I'm not sure if I can manage it right now. I'd like to keep my name on the mod list, though, if at all possible, for sometime soon (maybe not until mid-late November, though, for 'Thanksgiving break')...

Edit: I just went to look again at the old 'TiG scenarios' thread, and see that you commented on my idea, Nogrod. Did you ask the BW about that one, or another similar idea...or just the general idea of 'identities?' Just out of curiosity.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I'm afraid it might be way to easy for people to just slip back into their normal personalities without thinking of it. (I mean, it is their normal personality after all ). I think that this would also happen as the pressure mounted.

Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure that at some point (pretty early on) I'd not be able to keep myself from slipping back into my usual verbal pomposity.

I fear you're more than right here Kuru. That is the real problem. Under pressure one tends to go for one's normal self and that's it. But maybe we could try? I don't know. That was why I asked your opinions...

Originally Posted by Durelin

I had proposed a 'masquerade ball' game some time ago that I still wish to do, in which people try their hardest to play as their chosen masked identity would play (their identity for the 'ball' being that of another Downer).

As we discussed this earlier (if I remember this right?), I love the idea, but it would require some really wholeheartedly involved Downers to actually carry the masque of another Downer. It would be more than fun indeed. It would be just great, but it would require lots of involvement too. We should have to require an oath before the gamethat everyone is knowingly bound to playing a certain role... Those roles could surely be handled secrectly between the Mod and the players and the players should have the freedom to choose anyone they wish?

Sorry to be pessimistic about this one. Even though I would love it!
(Just thinking of myself playing in a role of fex. my daughter Lommy - being able to be as witty as she is and as flip-floppy at the same time! )