BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

This makes yourself and co-conspirators have the highest chance of winning, because coordinated cultists would’ve revealed their Backgrounds to the team in secret anyway.

(It’s totally possible for anyone to Sudoku the Reports as well as use social deduction to figure roles out, but a clear role confession is much better than any of that.)

I think you’re overestimating how much and how truthfully Cultists have been communicating. There’s been no gameplay incentive for them to truthfully share their other backgrounds with one another, and some incentive to lie.

I can’t decide whether I like the Dynasty ending like this, or not.

@Kevan: I haven’t found anyone lying yet in private communications. I feel like inter-Dynastic private trust is too much of an asset to lose for just one victory (or at least, I feel so, and this same “problem” happened in your previous secret-info Dynasty. Nobody really lied to me, at most, they just declined saying anything).

The cultist comment I’m worried about, and also that this could discourage a military person gunning Kevan down. 

There’s a quote in Stephen King’s Christine about how there are way too many high school boys and girls who are attracted to each other, but never make it past the insurmountable barrier “I can’t tell the other one how I feel because they might not feel the same about me”

“There’s been no gameplay incentive for them to truthfully share their other backgrounds with one another”
Well there was that whole, “if a cultist declares victory, they all win” rule.

[Cuddlebeam] Didn’t we have a “if a player has the plague, they must lie about it if asked” rule? I was going to propose a similar one here, but when it occurred to me the timing would have looked suspicious.

[card] How is that an incentive for a Cultist to tell another Cultist what his second background is? You might reveal it if you’re plotting a mechanical victory that requires certain backgrounds, but it seems to make sense to keep this information need-to-know, otherwise.

@Kevan: It was proposed but it failed: https://blognomic.com/archive/truth_hurts

Ah, well we did it successfully in the dynasty before that one.

@Kevan: Ah. Different metagames then.

I think that the appropriate answer for if lying is something desirable or not would be then that it depends on the consensus at the time, with no atemporal superior choice.