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Andrew Shield-Odds

Computer Science teacher and megagame designer based in the UK, affiliated with True North Megagames and St Edward's Oxford.

Jul 30, 2026

23:09
Um, yeah, how does that stuff play out in practice?
23:12
So, the day phase is very much a very sh- short, the shortest of the phases pretty much in practice, where you will place your cards down face up.
23:21
Just pretty much your public side of things where you can get resources.
23:26
You can play night phase cards during the day, but they can have a negative impact, and that's essentially you using your secret kind of abilities, your hidden team's effects to reveal, like, who you are, but also doing public in a way which others can see and start reducing the whole masquerade, that idea of the hidden world being public.
23:47
And then in the night phase is where you will spend all those resources on your actions, and that is where as a kind of collective hidden team, you'll commit cards towards two different, like, areas of focus.
24:03
Usually it's investigating or acting on something happening and spending those resources with control to cause something to happen.
24:12
So it is going back to the kind of same, like, CIA doing the Bond villain style plot line.
27:53
I guess take me through an example of how something like that would work in the game and how it would, how it all, how it would, uh, go off, I guess.

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