Yeah, I think I'm /out.
Congrats, guys. That's two newbies out of the newbie game. I'm giving you the most disapproving mom look I can muster. Seriously, I expected more of you based on my interactions with you in Buffy and Blitz. You guys are great people and not showing that right now. If you wanted your little corner of the internet to be members only you should have locked it down and assigned a password.
I emphatically do not want that. Why do you think I am arguing that? Of course I want more new player, new players are great. I'm not even against a newbie game!
But Bozzball outing is like a good example of why my skepticism is I think well founded. First of all, Bozzball is not a newbie. He played Mafia II. It was my second game, and the first game to feature Galzria, Jotheonah, Insomniac, and Voltgloss. So really, this was a newbie game, since I was the only player there who had played a game before (and just one). Bozzball under-contributed substantially.
The game was extremely short and non-demanding, by modern standards. It's only 20 or 30 pages, I think.
So, 1) I don't really see how this mild debate between SFS and I affects Bozzball wanting to play, although he implies that it does
2) He has played already, in a game that was probably at least as newbie friendly as this one will be
I question whether mafia is right for him, based on his own comments and history. (Although if he wants to play, he should! I just think he's likely to be disappointed in the experience regardless.)
So it makes me a bit skeptical of the idea of a newbie game, and that's partly where I am coming from. But by all means, we should have one, and I will stay out of it (although again, it should go back to being Newbie Mafia I).