Proposal: Room Service
Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 11 Apr 2025 13:15:50 UTC
In “Guards and Burglars”, replace “If there are any Civilians, then the Concierge should select one in a secretly random manner and either:” with:-
If there are at least two Civilians, then the Concierge should select one in a secretly random manner, blank their Route if they have one, then either:
Then add a paragraph after the bulleted list:-
If there is only one Civilian and the numbers of Guards and of Burglars are different, then the Concierge should blank that Civilian’s Route if they have one, and make them a Guard (if there are more Burglars than Guards) or a Burglar (if there are more Guards than Burglars).
In “The Break-In”, replace “If every Agent has a non-blank Route and there are no Civilians” with:-
If every Agent has a non-blank Route and there are fewer than two Civilians
In “Routes”, remove “Civilians cannot perform this action.” and add to the end of the paragraph:-
Civilians can perform this action only if “Grounds” does not appear in the Route, and if all the Spots in the Route are different.
Maybe the last player to be picked should just be a Civilian, when we have an odd number of players, to give us equal sized teams. They’re someone who happens to be wandering around the hotel as a guest or an employee.
They can block a Burglar from taking an Artifact, but that might be it for their interactions? I’ll add a requirement for them to keep moving, we could give them an actual scoring goal later.
I think it’s probably fine for the teams to be slightly unbalanced – adding a whole set of extra mechanics for the odd player out is likely to be significantly more unbalanced.
Trapdoorspyder: he/him
This is definitely a weird one in that it could either be quite good for the one player who doesn’t get assigned, or quite bad. I’m split over whether that’s preferable to just having one team be slightly larger than the other