Ah, I see. In looking at the data dump, I wonder if the better spectre action anyway is probably to 75% the RB and hope for the best. If you live, you've almost certainly uncovered a PR. Score!

In all due respect, I think that's a bit of a strawman. I don't recall suggesting rolling a 1d6 to determine modkills. Moderation should be predictable within a narrow range, but my view is that it should seek to be true to the players (out of respect for their time and effort), the existing game, and the community.

In this instance, I didn't say I would've modkilled A4, but probably would've challenged her/him to at least make some effort before just letting them tag out. Though for all I know I'm off-base and agent had a longer PM chat with them.

To pick on flub a bit, I wasn't super pleased he mod-killed drealmer in his game, but at the same time...I'm not sure the alternatives were that much better for what he was trying to do with the game. Allowing a sub "confirms" the post restriction, yada yada. There's no "pure" way out sometimes and that's just how it is. We don't have a 3,000 page rulebook that carefully delineates each possible scenario. Sometimes you just have to make a tough call and hope it's the best one.

If we're putting our cred on the table, I spent many year reffing (and coaching) sports, and the same thing applies. You have to do your best in each instance, but if you think you can be 100% consistent, given that new scenarios and combos of variables will emerge, I think you're fooling yourself a bit.

And as a parent, I've learned that, while consistency is an important goal there as well, if you insist on being rigid and applying a rule 100% the same way all the time, the clever ones will figure out how to exploit the text of a rule to "comply" and get what they want despite clearly violating the spirit/intent of the rule.

We are, of course, entitled to disagree and each mod slightly differently within the bounds of reasonableness. /shrug

On the balance issue, having thought about it, I think you're correct. I guess my real beef isn't balance, but that losing the coroner early meant a painful game to watch slog to its conclusion. Town did still have the spectres, but lots and lots of RNG in that, and either they strike gold or...there's nothing to talk about. I'd prefer something a bit less hit and miss and more conducive to conversation.

My game provided a lot of misinformation, certainly, but I was very keen on keeping town with always having something to talk about that could be productive if they worked through it.
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As for player comments, I would have put it a bit gentler than Vitek, but I agree drealmer sucked up most of the oxygen in the room on several occasions in a way that hurt his own faction and created some bad feelings. Also a bit of a tendency to logic his want into "OMGUS" and rally behind people just because they happen to share his targets. Very risky way to play, and possible to exploit.

I'll give props to RW for putting a real effort into steering town astray, though I was also not a fan of the claws coming out at the end. While I don't claim to be perfect by any means, I particularly disliked it here because it smacked of bullying. It's one thing to be a jerk on D1 (still jerky but risky) rather than as a way to close the game out already holding the upper hand.

I was very surprised more people didn't pick up on Hijack's intent to claim. With only 2 votes on him (L-5) he declared to adalia a "just try to lynch me." Since he wasn't working hard to defend himself, it seemed pretty clear he either held a trump card (PR), or perhaps less likely intended to bluff one.

It seemed pretty clear from D1/D2 that one of HSL/JMich was scum. For one, they were both alive. For two, for their argument to keep simmering there was something there. Unlikely they were both wrong, and more likely one of them was stoking the fire just enough to hold the other's attention. This was the perfect game to do it. Over time, as HSL returned his attention tot he broader field and JMich lurked back into the background, it seemed pretty apparent to me which was more likely. /shrug.