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Post by Börk Börk on Oct 7, 2016 13:48:47 GMT -5
Simple: I like writing roles for UPicks. People don't usually hate my UPick games. I don't want to force a narrow or boring theme on people.
So... what kind of theme would y'all like to see in a potential game? Would a second run of either my old 20th century inventions game or my country UPick be interesting to anyone? Would a WikiPick (roll randomly on Wikipedia, send in your first three) be at all interesting? Does an everything-goes free-choice UPick sound interesting? Or are there any other fairly universal themes people want?
Just give me ideas and I'll be grateful or something.
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Post by Börk Börk on Oct 7, 2016 13:55:39 GMT -5
Ooh, actually, another idea that I've had that I don't know how much people would like: World leaders mafia - pick any leader from any time period - Dido of Carthage, Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, Kim Il-Sung of N. Korea etc. And would excluding any leaders still alive be better? I feel like otherwise the vibes of the game would be rather different.
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Post by Börk Börk on Oct 7, 2016 13:56:46 GMT -5
I guess this is a bit of a lame just-give-me-ideas kind of thread. But as I said, I don't like forcing themes that I'm not sure about.
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Post by erinlilac on Oct 7, 2016 14:54:34 GMT -5
I like the idea of WikiPick and anything goes, sounds like it could get quite funny fast.
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Post by Your Favourite Vulpine on Oct 7, 2016 14:55:32 GMT -5
Ooh, actually, another idea that I've had that I don't know how much people would like: World leaders mafia - pick any leader from any time period - Dido of Carthage, Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, Kim Il-Sung of N. Korea etc. And would excluding any leaders still alive be better? I feel like otherwise the vibes of the game would be rather different. Wait, like a Civ Mafia?
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Post by Caro on Oct 7, 2016 15:45:59 GMT -5
Country UPick was fun. WikiPick would be pretty interesting I think!
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Post by Börk Börk on Oct 7, 2016 15:51:46 GMT -5
Ooh, actually, another idea that I've had that I don't know how much people would like: World leaders mafia - pick any leader from any time period - Dido of Carthage, Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, Kim Il-Sung of N. Korea etc. And would excluding any leaders still alive be better? I feel like otherwise the vibes of the game would be rather different. Wait, like a Civ Mafia? Yeah, Civ V was my inspiration for the idea, but I figured I'd make it more thematically open for people who don't play Civ.
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Post by Your Favourite Vulpine on Oct 7, 2016 16:13:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Civ V was my inspiration for the idea, but I figured I'd make it more thematically open for people who don't play Civ. (Hmm, should I pick Willy or Max? Or pick someone else altogether? )
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Post by ApplelovePear on Oct 7, 2016 16:47:31 GMT -5
Yeah, Civ V was my inspiration for the idea, but I figured I'd make it more thematically open for people who don't play Civ. (Hmm, should I pick Willy or Max? Or pick someone else altogether? ) No! I want Willy! But what about WW2? You already know who were the bad guys
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Post by Iceman on Oct 7, 2016 17:27:46 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, periodic table u-pick? Lol
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Post by Your Favourite Vulpine on Oct 7, 2016 17:36:56 GMT -5
(Hmm, should I pick Willy or Max? Or pick someone else altogether? ) No! I want Willy! But what about WW2? You already know who were the bad guys That leaves me with Max then. Awesome :3
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Post by Lala on Oct 8, 2016 19:33:31 GMT -5
Ooh, actually, another idea that I've had that I don't know how much people would like: World leaders mafia - pick any leader from any time period - Dido of Carthage, Gustav Adolphus of Sweden, Kim Il-Sung of N. Korea etc. And would excluding any leaders still alive be better? I feel like otherwise the vibes of the game would be rather different. I remember with fondness your u-pick games with countries and the 20th Century Marvels; however, I must say that I really like the idea of World Leaders!! And, yes, it would probably be better to only include dead rulers.
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Post by Lala on Oct 8, 2016 19:34:44 GMT -5
(Hmm, should I pick Willy or Max? Or pick someone else altogether? ) No! I want Willy! But what about WW2? You already know who were the bad guys The host can get creative with personalities. Just because history might write a leader as "bad," the host might twist it so they are not bad -- or possibly neutral.
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Post by Your Favourite Vulpine on Oct 9, 2016 1:59:21 GMT -5
No! I want Willy! But what about WW2? You already know who were the bad guys The host can get creative with personalities. Just because history might write a leader as "bad," the host might twist it so they are not bad -- or possibly neutral. Hmm, so neither Willy nor Max then? Alas
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Post by Börk Börk on Oct 30, 2016 7:25:15 GMT -5
I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this question so I'll hijack my own thread. Here goes:
If you were running a UPick mafia game with a limited selection of roles, how would you go about distributing choices?
That wording is mildly confusing so I'll do an example: Say I was running Civ V mafia, and got people to send in their top three role choices. And then say two people, A and B, both had Kamehameha as their first choice. Running the game on a first-come-first-served basis, A would get Kamehameha and B would get their second choice. However, through this mechanism, B is now aware that Kamehameha is in the game. In this particular theme, alignment is basically random, but either way, if B landed mafia, they'd know who to avoid fakeclaiming as.
Is this fair? If not then how would you work around it while still letting people have a preferred choice?
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