"3) Players are notified if they are town or mafia, but no roles are assigned yet. Mafia members do not know who their teammates are.

4) Role picks will happen starting on A DATE TO BE DETERMINED. Anyone who misses the deadline or does not submit a role pick is assigned vanilla. "

You get assigned alignment. Then role picking starts. When it's your turn you get list of remaining roles and you pick the one you want. At least I think it works that way.

But I too find cult leader horrible thing and hope no one will pick it.

You realize this thread has been open just over 24 hours.

Of course I also don't see the need to drag out the start of the game.

I'll give it 24 hours for the stragglers to send in number picks, then I'll role Town and Mafia and move forward.
You are correct in your assertion that I am always right.

I just want to get this sausage thrown down the hallway already.

You are partially correct.

I will post the number list in order of first to pick through last.

You will not know if your choice is taken by another until you receive your result.

If the list diminished as choices were made it would be a simple matter of connect the dots and all roles are revealed.

That's what she said on your birthday?

Cult leader? From what I saw it seems pretty broken... almost as bad as "the little girl" in RL mafia.

I would also prefer no cult. That no good balance bad mojo stuffs.

But if we're all aware of it up front, at least we can't be surprised and later claim to be all offended.

I just want to get the yogurt on the nipples already.

S'alright, cause I'll talk very, very fast and get out of the lynch. I like to think I've come a long way since I started teasing about building a bouncy house out of bones.

I believe the cult leader will be his own, 3rd party faction, which is part of the reason that you know only your alignment during role selection, even if you are mafia. Presumably all mafia will be told who their buddies are after the game starts. I'm not sure how the cult recruitment will be handled if it targets mafia after the game starts (maybe an auto-fail?).

Everyone submits a bid (or goes last, if they don't submit before the timer runs out). Then everyone can see the list of roles AND the order people will be selecting roles. Each player knows only their own alignment, and will secretly submit a bid for a role. If you bid for a role that someone ahead of you in the role queue already bid, you get to be vanilla.

I even tried the game 2 or 3 times over a handful of years, getting only several hrs in the 2nd and 3rd times before being like "ohyeah, no thanks" and stopping. I honestly can't think of a single aspect of it that I did like! The lore was mleh (I remember reading tons and tons of stuff about gods and houses and finding it all pretty boring/run-of-the-mill and not well depicted/written/delivered.) There were no interesting characters (I talked to many people and was bored by every single bit of dialogue), and I didn't find any of the geography or areas interesting to explore, it was more a task than anything, with no rewards except trying to figure out how I was going to carry things and remember where I picked up 20000 different meaningless sidequests that did nothing but seem like busy work and didn't enhance/add to the world at all.

I tried playing Oblivion quite a bit too (I thought "hey, maybe they improved on things and learned and made it more interesting") and found it just as boring/nothing interesting about it, at all. I've watched a friend play Skyrim a bit and, again, it seems like the same old shit. Combat was also boring in both of them (or sometimes just tedious.)

I finished Fallout 3 and all of its DLCs but was bored by most of the game. Fallout:NV I never even bothered to finish because I found it boring and run-of-the-mill all around too (every story-line and quest was predictable and things I'd seen before and again the writing of it all was meh.)

I also tried The Witcher twice for about 25-30 hours both times (about 2 years apart) and hated it (it was extremely juvenile and the writing was poor.)

Yes yes, I know, all of these are a lot of people's favorite games. I pretty often don't like things that "most people" (mainstream) like. I strongly dislike Harry Potter, PotC, and have no interest in the dozen or however many super-hero movies that have been coming out for the past 10 years. What else is loved by lots and hated/strongly disliked by me? : Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, The Walking Dead, Blacklist, and on and on.

What about Elementary, Peaky Blinders, Da Vinci's Demons and Black Sails?

You mean 1 person will roll neutral and they will be able to choose if they want to be neutral godfather, watcher, cop, doublevoter, RB or cult leader. I wonder what wincon they would have if they don't choose cult leader. :-)

Little girl?

Also come join us.

I played DAoC for 4+ years from D1. Were you a skald or a straight "healer" ? Lag did suck for a long time if you didn't have the bandwidth+computer to process everything, a lot of people if their role could handle it would zoom in staring straight at the gruond and that'd keep things operable (you could see who needed healed and click their name in the group box and heal them that way.) LOS heals were much needed, otherwise you'd have someone up in a tower or hiding inside gate doors/inside a wall or bush or tree and they'd just heal and never be found, and it made no sense to be able to attack/heal without LOS. RvR in that game was the best EVERRRR!

You are terrible human being.

I tried Peaky Blinders and was turned off by the modern soundtrack for a period show, it also seemed based on shock value (oh that's another, Sons of Anarchy, OH, and Hell on Wheels, couldn't stand either of those.) Elementary never appealed to even try, and those other 2 I've never heard of.

I played WoW for 6 months upon release and absolutely despised it (I kept playing because they kept saying they were going to improve it.) I was a DPS shaman and kicked ASS but no one wanted DPS shamans in raids either, so frikken stupid. The capacity for many builds and everyone pretty much forced to run the same builds because of no real good reasons.

In DAoC we'd got on 100+people raids of all kinds, from RvR realm-obliterations to keep sieging to trying to kill the Dragon, to trying to kill Legion, and a bunch of other crazy-hard PvE encounters that really did take 100 people to complete. ALL builds were viable if you knew how to build groups that worked well together.