Is it intentional that a Guard and a Burglar can walk through each other without seeing each other?

Intentional in the sense that I didn’t want to overload a simple starting proposal, but nothing beyond that.

I suppose it’s not unreasonable to say that it’s sometimes possible to sneak past an oncoming Guard (hiding behind a door, crouching behind a table) if you get lucky or were able to perfectly anticipate their timing, and that the Guard might do a better job if they were moving more slowly, or were stationary.

Right – I think this makes gameplay sense and is defensible in flavour terms (if you can anticipate the guard’s timing you can sneak past them). There are plenty of computer games where you have to do that sort of thing.

Is there a reason that Civilians are secretly randomly selected to be Guards or Burglars, given that the result is publicly tracked?

In other words, why not use the Dice Roller?

Mostly convenience when I’ll be repeatedly picking names from lists, but there’s also some concern that the Dice Roller output isn’t truly random and needs patching.

, but I have slight concerns about the timescales for Breaking In: with no fixed schedule but “whenever everyone has submitted a Route”, it creates an incentive to leave your decision as late as possible, in order to have better knowledge of what the gamestate and ruleset will be at the time Breaking In occurs.

[qenya] The ruleset angle of that played out well in the Wizard Duel dynasty - players sometimes held off to see whether a proposal would pass, but that added to the depth of the game. If issues arise with some future ruleset incentivising waiting to see what some free public action like Skills locks down to before people want to commit to a Route, that should quickly become apparent to the group and get fixed.