Posted May 20, 2014
I wouldn't even say that. It's more like... all these creatures are different-looking figures on the table, and we forumers are sitting around the table, trying to guess (and sometimes prevent others to guess) which figurine belongs to which player.
It's more "meta", see. It's tabletop board game-ish, and not directly roleplayed. If you play other games, you'll encounter settings where you really won't find such "maybe the aliens are humanoid" rationalizations. You'll face players who won't tell you whether their character is the fat grandma or the hyperactive little kid - and may even lie about it. Even though, "in universe", you'd just have had to look at them in order to know for sure.
Forum mafia games are weird like that.
It's more "meta", see. It's tabletop board game-ish, and not directly roleplayed. If you play other games, you'll encounter settings where you really won't find such "maybe the aliens are humanoid" rationalizations. You'll face players who won't tell you whether their character is the fat grandma or the hyperactive little kid - and may even lie about it. Even though, "in universe", you'd just have had to look at them in order to know for sure.
Forum mafia games are weird like that.