I don't think there's anything inherently "rule abiding" that would say it should block the wolf kill. My PM said my role ability was not useable for a night/day. Do you consider the wolf kill to be a "role ability"? I can see half of us answering that one way and the other half answering it the other way. Big toss-up. Personally, I wouldn't consider it a personal role ability, unless my game design was such that the wolves picked a specific killer. Then I might. *shrug*
Yeah. So, this isn't a ... I dunno ... negative criticism of doing that... Ok, I guess it is, but I mean it respectfully, because it's not like I'm saying "I'm right", but ... I'm really tired of mods adjusting mid-game to balance. I get that as mods we kinda want to see our games come down to a closer finish, but by doing that we totally take away the fun chance for one side to just slaughter the other. It also takes pressure off either side to play well because, hell, the mods will just balance things out as we go! If the game is reasonably balanced from the beginning, and one side just happens to get off to a great start (*cough*by killing two wolves in the first two lynches*couch*), then personally I'd rather the mod just let it go. If the villagers stomp the wolves, they get bragging rights about an awesome game. If the wolves come back and win, they get bragging rights about how well they turned it around. If the mod keeps adjusting things to balance it out ... meh .... it doesn't mean much.
QFT.
i actually agree with most of what you said. If I made a role that "anyone that lynches the player is disabled that night" and all the wolves lynched that player, then I'd argue that all the wolves are disabled and can't do anything. If it is, like you described, I made a role that "anyone that lynches the player can't use their role for that night", then, well, any specific wolves can't do anything, but the wolves group can still kill. So, it does get to how you made the role up when you created it, and how you choose to interpret your rules. In my game, you were a very interesting situation in my rules... in fact, you almost had ended the game on N4. As you may recall, your character was the key to killing the alpha wolf, and you had received the key to killing them, but the trigger to allow you to kill them occurred the same night. When I made up the rules, I phrased it that it has to happen AFTER the trigger occurs, not simultaneously, and thus, you were converted by trema and not kill her. It so happened that the wolves were down and out there as well so I was glad I found that wiggle room in my rules, because if I wasn't looking for a way out, it would have ended all lame like. But, other little things like allowing someone to use an ability a night early, or changing something from every 4 nights to every 3 nights, etc, I think doesn't ruin things too much, so I'm not as upset about that... making up a new conversion, or reviving someone/bringing in someone (which I was before, in the office game, i missed sign ups, was allowed to join midway as a wolf) as a wolf because the wolf numbers were low does throw off the competitive balance and takes away a little bit. but this is just for funsies so either way I try not to get too worked up about it.
Oh, the intricacies of being a mod. I'm sure DocE is going to come on here and write a few novels worth of information (believe me, I've had some of those conversations with him, as he helped shape my modding and still find his games some of my favorite to play in). But I like that there is some variety in the way games are run, and I don't mind having the mods act as a dungeon master (i never played table top D&D, but, well, yeah) and weave us through a masterful tale.
That being said,
lynch Lupin for now...
