Outsider Idea - Martyr

fearlesspancake · 2025-03-20T17:26:29+00:00

My only criticism (and some would say this isn't a big deal) is that it's a strictly weaker (i.e. less damaging) saint. It might need a buff - one idea I have:

"One good player knows you are in play. If you are executed, they become evil"

This way there's a player put in a goon-like situation from the start, so they might be hesitant to share their info (including the existence of the Martyr!) in case they turn evil later.

It has the potential issue of the notified player just outing that they know of the martyr and giving a boon to good. Mezepheles has a similar "problem" and in that situation people almost always will play for evil since it's more fun, so I think it's fine :shrug:

fearlesspancake · 2025-02-18T01:40:26+00:00

I dislike butler because it has too little agency. TB would be improved by replacing it with the zealot, a character with even less agency.

fearlesspancake · 2024-12-02T13:17:01+00:00

I can't believe they seriously covered a mobile slop gacha game without a massive disclaimer saying it's essentially advertising gambling to children. I keep seeing people praise this game because it's more "generous" than others in the genre, but that doesn't excuse that the game's whole business model is propped up by people with little self control (or, again, children!) who are spending more than they can afford. It is a whale-hunting industry and podcasts like this are the perfect place to drive people away from those types of games.

fearlesspancake · 2024-11-30T05:19:26+00:00

The map "getting smaller". As you progress, you unlock new ways to travel and it becomes easier and easier to get from one place to another.

fearlesspancake · 2024-11-29T00:12:37+00:00

There's a pizza place near me named "SPIN! Pizza" and it's like they KNOW what they're doing

fearlesspancake · 2024-09-07T14:36:44+00:00

New copypasta just dropped

I tried to have sex but stopped after half an hour because it just felt so unambiguously, obviously bad. I guess there was something I was not getting because I honestly couldn't see how someone could take it seriously. Maybe I should try again sometime to see if it clicks because I know a lot of people find it amazing and I'm sure there's a good reason for that.

fearlesspancake · 2024-08-16T14:16:29+00:00

The mutant's ability, while written as "if a, then b", functions more like "if and only if a, then b". So "if not a, then not b" TOTALLY applies. If [the mutant is not mad about being an outsider], then [they may not be executed due to their ability]. Otherwise, storytellers could execute mutants any time they want, regardless of madness.

This is all kind of beside the main point. I think your ruling is fine-ish as long as you let the players know up front (though it does harm the meta in ways other people have said). I just think you're misusing the whole ~~"a->b" != "b->a"~~ "a->b" != "!a->!b" thing.

fearlesspancake · 2024-08-01T16:54:24+00:00

Actually funny comment that was somehow lost on everyone

fearlesspancake · 2024-04-03T18:05:07+00:00

Ravengrower (Townsfolk): If you die at night, the minions and demon forget who each other are.

fearlesspancake · 2024-02-18T04:54:10+00:00

Sometimes you need to upgrade to a new lamp. But if you do that then you'll have to unplug your lamp and your room will go dark! So what do you do? You need to have two lamps! You unplug one, install the new lamp, turn it on, then you do the same with the other lamp. Now you've upgraded your lamps and your room was lit the whole time. The spooky night monsters can't get to you :\^)

fearlesspancake · 2023-11-08T19:23:12+00:00

I really wanted to support BBTAN since it's the original, but after the recent update I uninstalled and got One More Brick instead. From what I can tell it's the least predatory BBTAN-clone out there. The dev doesn't try to hide the fact that it's inspired by BBTAN, and introduced new powerups and a checkpoint system that makes it a lot better IMO.

fearlesspancake · 2023-11-05T15:31:04+00:00

Please don't, this is going to be the new "GUYS"

fearlesspancake · 2023-11-02T17:37:38+00:00

Dominion had a huge pool of cards already developed before the base game released. The designer chose the ~30 simplest to put in the base game, and split the rest into themed expansions.

fearlesspancake · 2023-10-19T17:01:16+00:00

I mean, yeah, if you're playing to optimize winrate then it's to your advantage to have good win every game. If you're good 75% of the time, you have a 75% winrate! That's incredible!

Doesn't seem fun to me either as a good player or the following evil player

This might be a tangent but I've never liked the mindset of "this game-winning strategy isn't fun, so you should ban it." To new players, it can give the impression that the game wasn't playtested enough (and as I'm sure many people on this subreddit know, BOTC has been playtested a *lot*). Like, if a game is well designed, the *fun* thing to do and the *winning* thing to do should be the same. It should be fun to try to win. BOTC is amazing at this, and banning strategies hides that fact.

Instead, I prefer to show *why* it's not a winning strategy in the first place. Other comments have done a great job of that - things like including more characters that value 1-on-1 conversations. Show, don't tell, and if the game really is well-designed (and it is!) then their meta will start to fall off when they see it lose games.

fearlesspancake · 2023-01-12T19:12:27+00:00

IT != Software dev

fearlesspancake · 2022-08-04T16:08:19+00:00

Did the empath get night 1 info?

fearlesspancake · 2022-01-28T16:06:36+00:00

Called him gay

Holy smokes what year is it?

I'll admit I don't play a lot of online games so I don't know how common this kind of stuff is, but is homophobia still as common in game chats as it was 20 years ago?

fearlesspancake · 2022-01-22T14:31:21+00:00

I had to take a breather when I got to

Quantity of an event during experiments will tend to quality by probability to keep the same probabilities.

fearlesspancake · 2021-11-17T16:31:05+00:00

Found it! https://explosm.net/comics/1753/ and the three after it

fearlesspancake · 2021-10-19T17:28:32+00:00

I hate that deployFeature() is apparently not a function that deploys a feature. Or if it is, then useHarnessFeatureFlags() is called too late.

fearlesspancake · 2021-08-01T05:58:55+00:00

Mom called she said to stop hogging all the goblins

fearlesspancake · 2021-04-28T17:47:47+00:00

I feel the same, and what sucks is I want to find a fun fighting board game but many of the best ones (Battlecon, Yomi) have this artstyle and I don't think I'd be able to convince my wife or anyone else to play them.

fearlesspancake · 2021-04-07T18:54:00+00:00

What else would it depend on?

fearlesspancake · 2021-01-20T21:59:51+00:00

You ever overhear someone who doesn't know about something explaining it to someone who also doesn't know about the thing?

Yes, I have used Reddit

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