There’s pros and cons for majority lynch, but I will say when I host that majority lynch will be in effect so it’s on the players to be active and vote. I don’t like deadlines anyway, it makes it too easy for someone to go “it’s ok I have plenty of time still” and then they slack off. A deadline is almost inevitable, but a lynch is unavoidable ;-)

Not really. No lynch D1 is the worst thing for town, this last game is the best example why.
If town don't lynch D1 all scum need to do is hit one player who is either highly regarded as town or not been particularly active. There NK tells town nothing and they have no flip so no real wagon to analyse.
The last game would have been completely different if SPF or ZFR had been lynched, or cristi. It would have allowed a proper look at the wagons knowing the alignment of the player.

Every death is information, a flip. That is town's most valuable asset to solving the game, so they need to make sure they get as many as possible. There are situations where No Lynch can be beneficial (for example the Mason game the D1 no lynch wasn't all that bad for town, particularly as the two scum teams ended up hitting each other, but that was a very unusual set up) but they are quite rare, and almost always later in the game.

I kind of agree that a majority lynch is better, because it is easier for scum to manipulate. Which means it's also easier for town to catch them doing so. So good players on either side have a chance to really influence the game.
But I don't think it particularly incentivizes people to act before the deadline. You know a lynch will happen, the worst outcome is avoided so people may be more likely to dither and have the game drag to deadline.

That sounds like a net gain all the way around.

Maybe, maybe not. When a smaller subset of players can take control, both by voting and by unvoting (unvote to shrink a wagon and thereby make some else have the majority of votes), it seems to me that more people will be incentivized to participate. If they decline to participate, then the active people almost have more control by default.

That's true. I suppose if one or more people are unwilling or unable to contribute than the active players can still control the game and the lynch rather than being frustrated because the last vote needed may or may not be online before the deadline.

I'd probably combine it with shorter deadlines though as I still think some other measure is required to keep the game moving rather than stalling until the deadline and a quick rush to actually do something to achieve a lynch.

yep yep. I think we should try it.

vote majority lynch as default

besides it might also makes for a different end of day experience:
Claiming at L-1 will not auto-save you just because someone jumps off -> you'll need to make another lunch target the prettier princess which might be impossible when near deadline...

Wow, Joe and I got a mention in the rules literally years after stopping playing. Excuse me, my eyes are just a little sweaty today.

Please count me in if the game starts after 14th August.

It seems the 14th of August is what 3 people need for a start date. I have no issue waiting until then to start.

Argh I wanna play again but I’m travelling until the 19th August... but If we start 14th August ish that should be feasible, I’ll be at the last stop on my tour.

Sign me up please!

ah, now I spent hours watching dance movies, reading the twilight, skimming the thread and now reading up on roles and I want to go into the observer thread etc, but have to go to work now :(

but seems like maj-lynch killed the cult leader in the end? neat.
(also dat modkill :D)

thanks for that fun game to read and how come you haven't signed up yet?

edit: nope no movies I meant: dance-youtube-clips
edit2: like this awesome piece of "dance movie"

Gosh, sometimes I am sad I use Barefoot Essentials.


Although I am not fan of majynch you made me to go through the thread and it sure looks like it was fun to try it for change.

why? the video links?

I haven't seen anything regarding avatar changing, so I'm waiting.



I'm wondering if I'll get in trouble for referencing a previous game......

Nah, those don't bother me. Mostly because I can't play any from work.

This one was more because of avatars.


Maybe you will be forced to talk in smurf speech as punishment.