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Comment by aetherson | Hacker News Reader

I wrote Everyone is John.

I've always been surprised and pleased by the cult popularity it's had. Glad to see people still liking it.

If this is your site (rtwolf.github.io/Everyone-is-John/), looks like the linked site from the text is down (www.everyoneisjohn[.]com) It's just an empty page with a Chinese title?

RTWolf isn't me. They've cloned my site: https://overlycommonname.github.io/john.html

(Which is fine, it's CC licensed).

I'll update the link.

Chinese domain squatters strike again lol.

Thanks, seems like an amazing game. I am watching some videos and trying to understand the gameplay. If you don't mind elaborating on few thing:

   * In the rules it says that whenever a voce completes its obsessions a test for control happens. Doesn't it mean that the voice needs to reveal what the obsessions is at that moment, before the end of the game?  
   * Same goes for skill, seems like for it to be used it needs to be revealed before the end of the game.
   * Who determines the level of obsessions?

The GM would have final say on the level of the obsession, and would notify players about a test for control. Certainly this provides a hint about what the active player's obsession is, though perhaps not a precise answer.

I didn't ever really anticipate that people would get super intense about the competition element. It's a self-evidently fairly silly game.

So GM is know all the players' sheets?

Yes, my expectation would be that sheets would be open to the GM, and they would approve sheets before the start of the game.

Could you add these clarifications to a FAQ section on the site/page, or similar? If someone here had these questions, other people might too.

Thanks for an amazing game! It provided one of our all-time top TTRPG experiences, and years later we're still laughing about what went down.

Thank you this game is incredible. I just learned about it from this post and I’ve already played three times mostly with people who have never played an rpg before. Instant hilarious fun for everyone.

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