Prevents a player's card from being looked at or moved.

The Gatekeeper?

I was going to suggest a Blocker for this, but I like The Gatekeeper too!

Looks at two cards, one after the other. If one of the cards is a goblin or gargoyle, the paranormal investigator becomes a goblin or gargoyle (respectively). This can make the game quite dynamic, since it adds the rare possibility that the Opposition control the town.

Majida?

Perhaps the Oracle?

Oh, and yes - Merlin sounds great!

The Boatman?

Prevents a player's card from being looked at or moved.

The Gatekeeper?

Looks at two cards, one after the other. If one of the cards is a goblin or gargoyle, the paranormal investigator becomes a goblin or gargoyle (respectively). This can make the game quite dynamic, since it adds the rare possibility that the Opposition control the town.

Majida?

Finds out those players that have looked at or moved a card.

Snapper-Jack?

Merlin sounds great!

Future Roles

• Merlin(?): Knows all the members of the opposition. However, if all the opposition identify (or all vote for) Merlin, then the opposition win.

• ?: Has a random player selected. Wins only if that player is killed.

• ?: Prevents a player's card from being looked at or moved.

• ?: Looks at two cards, one after the other. If one of the cards is a goblin or gargoyle, the paranormal investigator becomes a goblin or gargoyle (respectively). This can make the game quite dynamic, since it adds the rare possibility that the Opposition control the town.

• ?: Finds out those players that have looked at or moved a card.

So out of curiosity (and because I was binning some of the server logs)...

I'm sure there's a proverb about the binning of server logs being unsafe for felines, but I just can't remember it.

the one that changes into a goblin if they find a goblin could be called sly hands...... as he turned into a goblin.

According to Pickle, it was a hobgoblin that Hands was turned into. There's a official ITV clip of it here. Though we did see dungeoneer Christopher turned into a goblin later in Series 5.

• Between introducing Werewolf (which was the first of the weekly games that we added) and last week, the average number of chat participants each week has more than tripled as compared to the same length of time before we added Werewolf. Of course, it's still far short of the good old days.

• Each Werewolf game averages just under 6 players.

• The average number of "person minutes" in chat increases by (on average) 417% on weeks where we've played one of the games.

Let me therefore take a moment to give a big THANK YOU to everyone that has contributed to the game!

Future roles

I'm rapidly coming to the end of official roles to add. Some of the remaining official roles are:

• Sentinel: Prevents a card from being looked at or moved. I'm not sure this adds much, but I'm open to input.

• Paranormal investigator: Looks at two cards, one after the other. If one of the cards is a goblin or gargoyle, the paranormal investigator becomes a goblin or gargoyle (respectively). This can make the game quite dynamic, since it adds the rare possibility that the Opposition control the town.

• Aura Seer: Finds out those players that have looked at or moved a card.

• Mystic wolf: Wakes up with the other goblins (werewolves). Afterwards, the mystic wolf is able to look at one player's card. I think this character has to be "Lord Fear"?

Avalon

I really need to add some of the optional features to this so that it isn't so mundane.

Mascarade

Ironically, I think this is finished, but it needs more testing.

Others

I have a couple of ideas for one or two other games that I might implement if they have sufficient support.

Someone asked me if we could have Knightmare-themed Cards Against Humanity. I'll admit it would be easy to implement

• From now on, the night sequence always lasts 90 seconds, no matter which roles are selected.

• If your role has a night action, you will be asked what to do at the same time as everyone else. Hence, you now have 90 seconds (up from 60) to specify what you want to do.

• Having specified what you would like to do, actions are resolved in the same order as before.

As a consequence, the game now runs about 2 minutes faster, yet everyone has a further 30 seconds to act at night. This also eliminates the slightly naughty tactic of being able to deduce which roles are selected by how long the night sequence lasts.

Doubtless I'll have broken the script while updating it, so there's possibly some bugs that need fixing.

That reminds me of a old joke that my dad once told me......... When is a man not a man? When he's a woman....

In fact just to clear up any misunderstandings I will tell you my first name........ My first name is Elizabeth....and I have aspergers........ I love arts and crafts and I really love watching game shows.... I was born with no eyebrows, no eyelashes and no fingernails and I didn't need help to breathe when I was born.....I like the werewolf game and I am a chatterbox.

I am really looking forward to chatting on Friday, saturday and sunday....... Please come if you can....... so I can tell you about the weird dream on Halloween night............. that seems to have been a prediction that has now to my horror come true............ i'm not joking......

I try a bit of both and hope for the best!! I just enjoy playing it.

That was a great round of the werewolf game....... Told the truth the whole time and only got firebombed once.......... Maybe I should just tell them what I am straight away..... Maybe that's the best tactic? What do you think?

Would be great to see you in the chat room on a Saturday or a Friday canadanne.......... who knows I might have a funny story to tell you...... lol.

Had a nice chat with Zoe on Friday...... was surprised that anyone else turned up if i'm honest...... its very quiet on Fridays and Saturdays..... I learned that from Zoe.

I didn't know anyone visited the chat room on Fridays or Saturdays. Might pop in sometime if I remember!

See you in a bit!

I've got my Robert Burns poem book ready just in case I need it for anything......lol.

Had a nice chat with Zoe on Friday...... was surprised that anyone else turned up if i'm honest...... its very quiet on Fridays and Saturdays..... I learned that from Zoe.

• A vocal minority complained about the use of the term "lynch". Although I disagree with the objection, I don't think lynching is a very Knightmaresque punishment. Accordingly, the game now refers to "fireball"ing the losing player(s). I look forward to there being a dramatic increase in player numbers as a consequence of this change.

• Added "Gargoyle". The gargoyle tries to get itself killed. If it succeeds then it wins and all other players lose (this is a slight simplification of the werewolf rules, which get ridiculously complicated).

• Added "Skeletron". The skeletron knows who the goblins are and wins if the goblins win, but is not a member of the opposition (people neither win nor lose based on the skeletron being voted for).

• Rewrote a few bits of text to make the game a bit easier to follow.

Should be able to play with the new version on Sunday if there are enough players.

Next roles to implement:

"Insomniac" (PTB) acts at the end of the night phase and looks at his card. Consequently, he knows for certain what his role is when the day begins. I'm not sure who this might correspond with. Someone that is very much aware of who they are?

I don't feel there are any other roles that are essential to the game. The only other one I would consider is:

"Drunk" (PTB) swaps his card with one of the centre cards, but does not look at it. The character is somewhat random and chaotic, which made me think of possibly Elita or Gundrada?

Someone else? Got a character that you particularly want to see in the game? Speak up!