I would really do the same, but I don't know with 100% certainty that it will come to retail via normal channels. If this was a KS campaign from TMG, Queen Games, etc., I wouldn't think twice about even looking at the campaign. Since this is an independent group, then I'm worried I might not see it show up at Coolstuff next year.
Therefore, I'm still in, and this is only my second Kickstarter. My last one was in 2011 for a little filler card game called Carnival that finally came to retail earlier this year (or maybe last year).
I think only a handful of the games I've Kickstarted have showed up as purchaseable through retail channels here in Canada. I worry that this one will end up being the same, so... taking a chance and hoping I don't end up getting screwed on the price. Maybe the CAD will jump up after the election results and save my precious exchange rate.
Played several games of
One Night Ultimate Revolution last week. Was an interesting take on the ONUW/Resistance formula, but out of the box it feels like there are far fewer games where you hit the middle of the road on divining roles. Every game we played was very decisively over with either zero tells as to who was an Informant or obvious tells as to who was an Informant. Things might get interesting as we mix up the roles more and people get used to the task sequence (and how to lie about roles) -- and the fact that some roles deliberately and intentionally 'switch sides' at the start of the game might help with that -- but the recommended starter specialist loadouts w/ smaller groups coupled with everyone's inexperience led to games that ended decisively quickly for either team. If there are no disputed role claims, since Informants can safely claim any role but Signaler w/ only adjacent Rebels, it's hard to use that to glean information; on the other hand, the right loop of three or four roles in a seven person game can lead to instant verification if nobody is agile enough to dispute it out of the gate. It certainly wasn't like ONUW where we had the lying game on point from the first play.
Out of our starter set of games (7-8 players), we only had one game where things got really interesting:
* I started out as an Informant/Signaler. I had no Informants on either side to tap, and figured I couldn't sell the table this early on having tapped an adjacent player (this angle hasn't been tried yet in our group, and I want to try it when I end up being an Informant with an adjacent Rebel/Signaler!), so I lied about being a Reassignor.
* The real Reassignor was another Informant, and he had to lie about being an Observer, which immediately got him and the real Observer pegged as possible Informants.
* A player two steps to my left was a Rebel/Thief, and he actually stole my card (which I didn't know), but pretended he was confused and had taken the Reassignor action and switched the original Reassignor and a Rebel player.
* I said I had also Reassigned those two players, so they were back to their original positions, unless the Thief was lying and actually took a Thief action. Essentially, I was trying to paint the Thief and the person who had been swapped as potential Informants, saying the Thief lied about screwing up his role (he's tried that tactic before).
* The table ended up buying the Thief's story about screwing up the role, so they killed the guy who was the real Informant/Reassignor, and I ended up inadvertently winning since the Thief had actually stolen my card and actually was an Informant.
I can certainly see the potential once Informants get ballsy and either lie about their roles at the beginning to craft a narrative or tell the truth about the role but bluff about the action taken more aggressively to get people trying to dispute it. Informant/Observer claims to be an Investigator who looked at and confirms a Rebel (since they knew he was a Rebel at the onset), while acknowledging an Informant/Signaler tapped him, for example; or, Informant/Signaler claiming to tap a Rebel player who says they were not tapped while a Rebel/Analyst confirms they were a Signaler. Will be interesting to see how it develops.
