BIONICLE Mafia: Legends: Post-Game Thoughts
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- Seeing how quickly the Shadow Matoran won, I think I may have made them too powerful, or at least gave them too many people. 5 people were Shadow-aligned in a 20-player game, and four of them didn't know the fifth, but the fifth knew them. Should've probably reduced the Shadow Matoran's numbers from four to three, and make the Shadow Turaga's death scenario less over-the-top or have more conditions associated with it.
- I am really glad it did not devolve into a trainwreck. I feared that would happen, and it didn't. Thank goodness.
- Briefly considered merging the day and night rounds ala some previous games, but decided against it - would cause problems considering the twist of the game, which was a major part of Legends.
- Initially considered giving ordinary Toa the ability to kill other players, but decided not to. Now? I'm not so sure that was the right idea.
- Surprised at how quickly the game progressed. Feared it'd take a little too long, but it didn't.
- It was much easier to keep track of things than it was in FFFO. Then again, not every person has a role and there aren't five different factions. FFFO had a spreadsheet.
- Was a bit annoying counting the lynch votes and the Toa votes and then realising I'd confused some of the votes together, then having to recount. Originally decided not to give vote counts due to the Shadow Turaga, then gave vote counts that didn't take into account the ST's extra vote.
- The Village did not even lynch or investigate a single Shadow Matoran, and they did not save a single person.
- I put the 'Shadow Matoran win if majority' win condition in and considered removing it, but then I realised that removing it would mean, that once they are the majority, it'd just be a slow and increasingly boring countdown to the end of the game they've already won.
- I'd think one of the biggest reasons the village failed was the total lack of teamwork and trust. The Shadow Matoran really managed to confuse the brick out of everyone when they opted not to use their extra Shadow Toa kill until a few more people were Toa, and so the blame was put on the innocent FF at first. All except the one person who'd investigated FF and saw that they were innocent. The Shadow Toa had their plan and their designated scapegoats, and the Village had no plan and fell for the fake scapegoats.
- The biggest sign of the village's unwillingness to co-operate with itself: the dual lynching and Toafication of ToaTimeLord. Became a Toa, and lynched, the same day.
- The same round ToaTimeLord became Toa was when the Shadow Turaga made the best use of their abilities. They voted for ToaTimeLord, and ToaTimeLord's total for becoming Toa by the end of the voting round was 6 votes. They then negated ToaTimeLord's own vote, completely hiding the fact that they were the Shadow Turaga and ensuring that one of their own would become a Shadow Toa, as it resulted in a tie and two Toa were made that round. That really couldn't have gone better for them - they get rid of a Toa, and they gain one of their own.
- Ghidora became very close to being lynched on both Day 2 and Day 3, but narrowly survived both times. That was interesting - there was a focused effort to try and get rid of Ghidora, it seemed, but not enough people believed that Ghidora was truly guilty. (Plot twist: Guilty.) Day 4, they seemed to have forgotten about Ghidora and decided to lynch FF instead - probably because the village had been duped into believing FF was a Shadow Toa after the Shadow Toa made their first kill.
- It's amazing how much would have been different with just one more vote each round. That was often the difference between the person with the most votes and the person with the next most votes.
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