A Wizards True Name - Day 1

[gnarlycharlie]

Originally Posted by Mrs McGinty

Have I not? I don't want to get all old timey and such, but, years back, I did play in games with a few of you guys (at Straight Dope under this name, and at the org under 'Winston Hughes'), so it's possible this isn't our first time. Anyhows, I thank you for your welcome.

p.s. In case anyone is waiting for me to reveal my true name, it's Beau. But you all can call me Mr Lockes.

ah, you have had the pleasure and honor then.


so he or she can have the honor and pleasure.

Originally Posted by Scáthach

I was rereading the rules to see if scum have more of an advantage than town if they know names and this line is really confusing me. What investigation could be taking place here? Town get alignment results, but scum know alignment already? And all the roles are the same?

this is bugging me too. i reckon scum get name results since alignment results don't make sense. i agree that our names are very important in the game. so i am more willing to have a limited claim rather than a full one. what that entails i'm not sure yet.

Originally Posted by TexCat

Perhaps we should just start with how many letters are in our names and see what we get. If it turns out that we all have 5 letter names, then we can go around again with another bit of info.

The point is to make our investigations more productive, right? If my name has 5 letters, it's pointless for me to investigate anyone with a 4 letter name. If there are only 3 players that have 5 letter names, we don't need to publicly state the names, we can just investigate all 3 pretty quickly.

We will also need to coordinate who is investigating who so that we try not to interfere with each other. This may make it easy for scum to interfere with one investigation, but it also means that a large number of investigations will go through.

this type of limited claim seems okay.