...I... Want... In... *breathe*

Isn't anyone going to update this thread? I thought Shiri was?

I think we had something about not being on the list if you were already on it...also, I was expecting to see bold, which threw me off

We do.

So I'm going to get started on creating the angels and demons game, but I first wanted to ask people how many roles I should prepare. (I saw S.A.W's comment earlier about some people not being able to play or sign up etc.)

I definitely wanna play.

thanks, but should I make the game for 12 or 24 or inifinte?

Oh! I'd say 22-25 or so. That's how many I'm planning for mine anyway.

Games with more than 20 players is really too much. I've learnt that often, less = more.

Make it infinite. That way everyone can play and the game will go on forever. No one will ever be able to vote anyone off, either.

For the Mario Brothers game it took a lot of talk to get by day 1. I would go by how you want it to be run. Maybe make 24 roles and have half of them be NPCs if you decide to go 12. I know I don't know a lot about the games, but I like to always act like I know what I'm talking about.

That is what I was wondering. Perhaps we can have two small games running at once?

I think we should do that if there are enough people who want to play (and are able to play). Maybe set the sign-up to open at two separate times of day, just so people in different time zones have equal chances of signing up.

I'll do my game after the two small ones then? Mine is gonna have 23 roles in it and I've already written most of them up. I don't wanna flush all that work to turn it into a 12 person game.

There are numbers between 12 and 24, if you guys didn't know...

I know, my next one has 37 roles... creepy.

which number between 12 and 24 do you think makes the game "too big"?

Lies and Slander!

Seriously, though, how do you make sure all your characters are balanced properly?

*insert plain vanilla townie*

What fun are they?

By not having too many roles. The more you add, the harder it is to balance (like Lusternian combat).

@daganev: Just my opinion, but I would never make a game with more than 20 roles. My first game was 20 roles, and I feel it was too much.