ZFR: Why not? It won't spoil the game, since you can't prove that you're a Resistance member. Only the moderator knows it.
I could PM a fellow in private "Hey, I'm from the Resistance member. Trust me." But for all he knows I could be a spy.
I've been playing tabletop Resistance for years. One of my favourite games. But for me the fun is playing (and drinking) around the table with people you know. Not sure if I'd enjoy the forum game as much, so I'll pass.
agentcarr16: That's kinda outside the rules of
Resistance, isn't it?
Is it? I don't have the handbook with me at the moment so I can't check. But in our games, it was not specifically forbidden to communicate privately. In practice we sometimes had two people talking together quietly while the rest argued about something else.
It does not unbalance the game: Two Resistance members cannot agree privately on a strategy since none of them can prove he's not really a spy. It would benefit two spies to privately discuss strategy, but if two people start talking so that no one else would hear them, it would immediately make everyone else around the table suspicious.
In the forum game, two spies
can talk privately without anyone else being aware, so the "no private chat between spies" rule is necessary. But a "no private chat between Resistance" can be left out.
EDIT: this is just some general observation on my part of course. To make the game more clear and transparent, it might be good to impose a "no private chat at all between players" rule.
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