Timing primarily, so you can't track which people would be able to PM or not.

That's pretty much it. If there's a team with all resistance members on it, and we just gave it a quick auto-pass, then everyone would know they are all resistance. So, if a resistance member failed to send in a pass/fail card, it would be auto-pass, since that's all they can do, but, we do the actual PM thing anyway.

oh, what the hell, I was gonna avoid this so I could focus on mafia, but this seems different enough that I can separate the two. I'll /in

Yeah, after running this twice, I got a lot of complaints about having to send the Pass cards by the Resistance members, but it was the only thing I could think of other than forcing people to wait two or three days for the result like Mafia.

~SE++

heck, even in mafia, good hosts have each player PM them each night no matter if they're targeting or not, so that night can end as soon as possible.

So, we currently have six players. Both of the games I ran were 6 players. I'd really like to get at least 7 players so I can see a game with 3 Spies in it.

~SE++

Just do the opposite of me, and you'll be fine. Otherwise people think you are a spy.

And just for you squinty, I'll play.
But I'll only play if I'm a spy. I know what I need to do differently from last time, so if you could make that happen Neo; that'd be great.

Oh good, we have our official Black Hat! Er.... wait, usually a White Hat.... but everyone assume he is a Black Hat.... are you a Gray Hat?

~SE++

Just call me Gandalf

Yeah.... no. That might give you delusions of grandeur.

~SE++

How about Merlin?

How about we try and get your CT changed to "Always assume he is mafia or spy"?

~SE++

If you need more, I'll join. However if you have too many people I'll step aside since I'm in the current mafia game.

Tiny - we're fine running it with any number between 5 and 10...so, if you want in, there's plenty of room.

I meant if you suddenly get an influx of people and it pushes you above 10.

Woot! Eight players! Two more, two more!

~SE++

But 10 is really difficult if you're not a spy.

Probably, but we've had just about the bare number of players so far for each game, so I'd like to see a bigger game get played. Besides, the Resistance won the last one! We can do it again! (and then have a better track record than the Mafia games)

~SE++

I have to agree. I mean, the 5 and 6 person games we've played were total blasts...but I've got a feeling that adding more is going to be more fun.
I'm going to close signups at 10, or around mid-day Sunday, randomize the roles and send out the PM's with the intent of starting Monday morning.

I like 7 players, but I'm somewhat wary of anything higher. Not that I'm against it, I haven't played with larger player counts all too often.
To be honest, I don't actually like the 5 and 6 player dynamics all that much.