I searched my apartment and found a player.

Players without honor ITG

*KNOCK*

Elrond opens the door. "Mithrandir! What a pleasant surprise! Come in and what can I do for you?"
Gandalf: "Many things, but for the moment I'll settle for some ale and a juicy steak"

marknfw wins the game!

The surviving players are Gadarene, Luckbox, Frog and mark.

All other players have been killed

The mod spreadsheet is HERE

I suggest you all post your adventures here, if they were of any interest. I haven't seen any chats, so that dimension of the game I missed

Cliffs:

• frog and dolby jointly backstab & kill egix
• whysper attacks mark and dies
• zurvan kills VR (loltrolls)
• bloobird kills zeus, who respawns
• bloobird kills apoc, wich also ends the game for accobra
• smaug kills irtm
• Bloobird meets Zurvan and Eric, kills Zurvan, but is caugh and eaten by Eric
• Eric and Zeus kills eachother
• frog and dolby kills ct
• dolby attacks gad and is killed - now mark and Frog have achieved their wincon
• mark arrives at the house of Elrond and claims victory

MORE CLIFFS:

• lolevil
• lolfrog
• lolirtm

The attack mechanic:

All is expressed as X|Y.
X is fixed damage.
Y is a die roll.

So 6|6 means 7-12 damage

Not sure if it was bloody or too pacifist. It seemed fine.

Some non-public role specific notes:
Bilbo started 2 squares away rom hiome and was given the opton to go back home to pick up Sting and some other goodides, which he did.

The Trolls would learn the names of the other trolls upon enter Troll Hills, which was a pre-game hint for them. VR never made it, she didn't look trolly enough to Zurvan

The necromancer learned he had an ally in Angmar. That would have provided him with an upgrade to his magic attack and attack all in the location. I actually randed bloo a bit too far from Angmar, so he never even tried.

Kili an Tauriel would learn their lover's identify upon searching Withered Heath. Apoc never got there, he lost two moves going into the wrong direction and then ran into bloo.

Bard the Bowman had to pick up his Crossbow in Bree. He never made it to there.

Gandalf was given a hint that somewhere in the misty mountains he could find Glamdring. That was overkill, he only used up two of his very efficient pinecones.

Strategy

I think some people got it and some didn't

In general, the Burglars need to go to the Lonely Mountain, so the two roles that need to get rid of Burglars, should go there too and aid Smaug in the defense. Burglars should try to team up as well

The Eagle should use his ability to find his allies (Gandalf, Beorn), so that he doesn't need to tackle evil on his own (necromancer specifically is a certain death).

All roles with a hint should beamline to that location, while searching

Gollum needs to use his sniff ability a lot, hide, play alone and find Bilbo ASAP

Some lol moments in the game:

troll attacking troll

All mass murderers murdering each other

Dolby fake claiming Thorin and when Dolby and Frog meet ct and ct claims thorin, they kill him.

Gad putting on the ring for the first time at the moment Gollum walks in

Congrats, mark.

Thanks for the game, Gabe, it was fun while it lasted for me.

I suppose you'll be able to tell me how you experienced this game. Fun? Boring? Suggestions?

Ah, all locations had a natural trap. When traveling to a location you had 10% to be warned about it, 10% to walk into it (25% if running into the location)

The effects were never devastating. I didn't want people to be killed by lolvariance

Well played gandalf- we were together quite a while

lolfrog

Thanks gabe!

Thanks Gabe! I had a fun time.

I almost died day 3 when whysper (Smaug's spawn, I assume) attacked me and left me with only 1 health. Luckily my trusty Flaming Pinecone wiped her out defensively. Then ct (Thorin) comes along and tries to finish the job, lol. Somehow I avoided any damage from his backstab, I assume, and from the result of my Flaming Pinecone response we knew who each other were and briefly teamed up. I spent the rest of the time either searching locations for Glamdring/health boosts or resting, trying to regain my health. I killed no evil, but fortunately evil ate itself. Once I got Glamdring I headed to Elronds House to see if my wincon had been met yet and to see if any evils were lurking around outside for returnees. I had pretty much decided I was attacking anyone I came across from then on. I had built my health back up to an 8. Then what do you know, I was alerted that all evil was gone with me only being one space away from Home. Lucky me.

You backstabbed me! Good thing you had that shield. I was worried just before we split up that you might try to finish me off and take Glamdring from me in my weakened state, lol. So while I was glad for the good company, I was also relieved when we went our separate ways amicably.

I only ran into one player the whole game. I understood the need to be hanging around Lonely Mountain, but it was getting boring not finding people and I started heading west just to search new locations.

I didn't attack AC Cobra when we met because I had no weapon at the time-- I assume I would have needed some sort of weapon or could I have just used my fists?

I was quite surprised you did not use your dragon 1-time kill on accobra

In principle all players that try to move to Lonely Mountain are Burglars, except that the lovers also had to go pretty close (that was intentional obv)

I'm realizing now that I just misunderstood and assumed that with Smaug's Spawn being dead, that that wasn't available to me.

Who was Smaug's Spawn btw?
ETA: OK checked the spreadsheet, Whysper, Hi-- I was starting to send longer and more intimate notes but then you died.

Yes, he backstabbed, and because you did not move, you got extra defense. I also think ct rolled low and you did as well, so your flaming pinecone bounced on his fireproof shield.

CT only found useless **** too. Nobody made the rudimentary shield and club, which both are better than nothing.

Frog ended the game with three portions of poisonous forestfruit. Only the finder would recognize it as poisonous. You can give it away to someone else or maybe someone can loot it off you and get the bad news when he tries to eat it

There was plenty of Athelas to find. In forest you were 40% and in swamp 30% IIRC

Whysper
She roamed the map. It would have been better to beamline to Lonely Mountain and team up with you

Another lol moment btw was bloobird claiming Tauriel to ApocPS, who was Tauriel himself.

The obvious move would be to brace, because don't trust liars. He didn't and he got killed. A brace might not have helped him, but it would have done extra damage to bloo (ApocPS rolled a really low attack)

Tauriel is the best claim btw. She has no enemies other than the mass murderers. All other characters have natural enemies

thanks gabe

it was fun murdering everyone I met

two trolls is one too many though

Sorry for the snub Apoc, I was super low on health from my battle with whysper and just fled from you. Also, ct had told me you seemed dodgy in his previous conversation with you, lol.

It was definitely fun, and I would play again. I feel like something could be improved, but I'm not sure what. Maybe don't reveal the possible roles at the beginning. It would allow for more creativity dealing with other players. Or maybe not.