[LoM] Aftermath

[Ashe]

I was not expecting the Mordekaiser flavor-text in Day 3 or 4 or w/e to essentially outline, in full detail, the entirety of the ability.

Had I known that, I almost certainly would not have ghosted Kaden.

EDIT: Haha, reading this only makes the townie's dumb luck that much more ridiculous. I was hoping the full reveal would somehow justify it.

No, I wish I had something of substance that I could offer for that. I absolutely don't blame anyone for (both directly and indirectly) accusing the game as being rigged or cheating. I know no one really wants to be seen as a poor sport by making such an accusation, but given the context, it wouldn't be an illogical thought if not for knowing the people involved and whether one would think they would do that or not.

When I was re-reading over those in order, I found myself scoffing AGAIN at the incredulity of how things kept working out. It was, in many ways, epic to see one thing after another, like watching a series of back to back highlights. In other ways, I was incredibly frustrated because I openly felt that every single time I thought the mafia were being cut a break, the town (completely unaware) just had the exact perfect way to capitalize or counter this change of luck.

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When Mordekaiser ghosted Kaden, it STILL would have worked out fine even if they no longer trusted Kaden, because he was still a majority vote contributor that could play the system (voting for mafia members which would cast doubt on those targets) while removing his Bloodscent from the game which gave them some relief.

But that would be THE night that Twisted Fate chose to, out of fucking nowhere, use Destiny directly on Mordekaiser. I didn't even see anything in the forums the majority of these times to be able to deduce why people chose the targets they chose.

Cho'gath not using his ability for a while and just suddenly Feasting on Kami? For real? I have no idea where that shit came from.

I'm either fucking terrible at this game as far as deduction goes or people were straight taking shots in the dark and striking gold with them. Which side is the answer falls entirely down to who was on which side of the alignment fence.

Ultimately, I feel that missing the mafia kill on day one is what created the initial domino effect and the mafia was behind trying to stop it (and getting thwarted) from that point on. It was just a simple tempo problem where the mafia could not try to control the flow of the game because they were, from the first night, one step behind having to react to the newest threat.

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I learned a lot from this game. I can't promise future games will be flawless, but there is definitely a lot that I learned from this game. If I were to run this game with these exact characters and abilities, I know of at least 3 characters that I would make substantial modifications to their ability for balance reasons. That said, future iterations of this game may not include the same characters or might even have a character using another ability entirely. That will be part of the hidden information. Some characters might find another character using the same mechanic they had the previous.

The greatest thing that I learned, however, had nothing to do with the characters and their balance but more so with the management of the game itself. I kept great notes and stayed organized, in my opinion, regarding the background, but I needed to be better in how I dealt with specific issues.

I wish that I had the foresight to have not needed to make balance changes on abilities at all after they were given out, though I kept this to a minimum after day 1/2, only doing this again to preventing something possibly breaking the game open (Soraka + Cho). Now that I'm aware of some of the issues, I have better wordings planned to explain some effects and better rules notes for how certain abilities would be used.