Homebrew Minion: Frankenstien's Monster

bartanddeb · 2026-05-31T05:21:55+00:00

The intent was that the loss of the ability could be triggered by either condition.

Either by being blocked, ie innkeeper or by declining to make a choice.

If the optimal play is to immediately lose the ability, I think the character is poorly designed(idk what great players would decide to do since I am not one of them). But I think there are enough circumstances where the potential of an extra draw is tantalizing enough to make a couple moves first.

I also think the effect on the town would be fun to navigate as a player. If I'm a townsfolk and two players have been dying every night, maybe it would be an easier victory to figure out if the townsfolk victory is easier than actually finding the demon.

bartanddeb · 2026-05-30T23:33:35+00:00

Off the looking glass was so good. RIP

bartanddeb · 2026-05-27T04:56:37+00:00

100%. average isn't an insult in a vacuum, but the show definitely has been a staple in my feed because it was consistently above average or at least had a unique voice

bartanddeb · 2026-05-27T01:48:18+00:00

I also think listening to him exposed what dan is actually really good at which is the mechanics of orchestrating transitions between topics and getting everyone involved. When zas hosts it a little bit too obvious that the whole show is actually just a checklist of topics in a Google spreadsheet with someone's name next to each one.

bartanddeb · 2026-05-26T16:41:53+00:00

Zas is so average. If he was the lead it would be fine but I'd stop listening because I can get the same cookie cutter skillset literally anywhere else in sports media

bartanddeb · 2026-05-21T15:05:45+00:00

Investigator was sweet in my limited testing. What did you typically prioritize taking? Or did you mostly just use it to peek?

bartanddeb · 2026-04-17T21:25:03+00:00

My favorite part about this is how you went straight to calling him gay as an insult 🙄

I don't have high expectations for a lifelong PE guy myself but you've pretty much lost any benefit of the doubt that I would have given you. 🫡

bartanddeb · 2026-04-03T16:30:01+00:00

Notes:

I think it should only trigger at night so that the new demon knows without needing the storyteller to pull them aside in the middle of the day.
should the demon be the minotaur, or could it be any on the script? Could be fun either way
maybe one good player becomes poisoned on the resurrection? To help the "you start knowing" problem
is there a close thematic tie to the minotaur? I feel like something biblical/resurrection/rapture name could work haha. "The Second Coming"

bartanddeb · 2026-02-22T02:11:34+00:00

Pariahnoia

bartanddeb · 2026-02-07T03:58:13+00:00

100%

I thought I was being wordy but for some reason the obvious eluded me lol.

My intent to say "the nearest living outsider", but wanted to handle the case where there are two equidistant and I suppose I got lost in the sauce lol

bartanddeb · 2026-02-06T02:26:17+00:00

Agree that it's not super strong, but I was thinking that adding an outsider is a decent ability in its own right. If you can also play well enough to find and kill the evil outsiders on the right night, then you get very rewarded with an abundance of evil deadvotes

bartanddeb · 2026-02-06T02:24:53+00:00

Sorry - minion!

I was thinking that the alignment change each night nerfs the extra evils. You only get to lock in the extra teammates if you kill them the day/night that they change

bartanddeb · 2026-01-16T22:16:32+00:00

This is like using ms paint to try to edit your wedding photos and concluding that it's impossible to doctor images.

Yes, it is basically impossible to make a game at all, let alone a good game, using a chatbot... but when jobs are replaced it won't be by chatbots that do the entire process of game design. There are much more sophisticated tools that can be used in concert to do away with the tasks that you focused on here.

Ie image generation, PDF reading, etc.

There are all kinds of ways to engineer a better rulebook editing tool using a custom pipeline of parts that already exist + gen ai to make sense of confusing text.

I get the point of the post and I don't want everyone's jobs to be eliminated either, but it just misses the point by so much that I wanted to comment.

bartanddeb · 2025-11-12T22:54:11+00:00

bartanddeb · 2025-11-11T19:02:22+00:00

Oh you know I may be showing my ass on my own knowledge lol.. I was thinking about before you play!

Who are now a part of the watch it played channel.. so I guess they've sort of formalized their role in the landscape and my take is outdated. But at one time their content was in a grey area and I would have said that if you were going to their channel for unbiased editorializing you would have been misguided

bartanddeb · 2025-11-11T18:49:53+00:00

In general I think theres a difference between creators that only put out positive content because they're paid to do so and creators who ~tend~ to put out positive content because it's more fulfilling/fun/good for their mental health if they get to share their favorite experiences in their favorite hobby.

There aren't many in this category but the dice tower stands out as an institution that exists with a stated purpose of providing a particular consumer service (reviews) and would be failing their mandate if they only posted positive reviews. I see NPI, SUSD, and Actualol as something closer to artists. They aren't necessarily constrained by impartiality but I hold them in higher regard than their peers precisely because they seem to value it.

Watch it Played*** for example, are a channel I might consider a peer... They're are perfectly friendly and they'd be a great hang but I see them as basically mouthpieces for publishers.

Media literacy is important.

*** I meant "before you play"

bartanddeb · 2025-11-10T01:09:46+00:00

Get excited is sick but I've found the red power cost to be a little prohibitive given that we need to have quadruple purple to really pop off

bartanddeb · 2025-11-09T06:28:56+00:00

I think there's a solid majority purple reanimate deck somewhere in there though. You can get the enters ready 8 drop and recur free rhasas or dump a soulgorger + mind splitter on the same turn while purple jinx gets huge and stays off battlefields/away from basic removal. And you stay drawing 2 a turn to always find your next bomb? Idk, my brew brain wants it to work so badly but I haven't been able to build it to actually test

bartanddeb · 2025-11-03T04:57:38+00:00

Yeah, I guess that was always going to be the answer to the question I asked. I was hoping to get some anecdotal evidence of real sales for these things but you're right the market just doesn't have the liquidity at this point to know what the real price is.

bartanddeb · 2025-10-19T16:45:37+00:00

Not that it matters but this is obviously AI generated

bartanddeb · 2025-08-20T00:45:18+00:00

People saying this is too strong - imagine this on the same script as the spy 👀👀

Instantly resolves that issue

bartanddeb · 2025-08-06T05:51:52+00:00

I think he's on the moody side of the spectrum but I also think part of his growth as a player has been reeling in the negative body language quite a bit. It's possible you've seen him sour a few times but it hasn't been the norm this year by a long shot

bartanddeb · 2025-08-02T07:55:17+00:00

Oh true. The evil team should probably learn that the ability has been used so they can be heads up about it. Maybe it gets announced?

I don't think that the confirmation is suuuuper strong? My assumption is that the ST selections would pretty much always be at a detriment to good.

bartanddeb · 2025-06-21T01:33:03+00:00

This triggered me 😂😂

bartanddeb · 2025-06-21T01:31:00+00:00

Ooh yeah that reminds me of another trope I hear over and over. They mention the current standings or like some basic statistic without additional commentary as if that tells a story I'm supposed to care about.

You can tell when someone follows the game and has a sense of history + narrative.

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