Last week in class we played Avalon, and I really enjoyed it.  My favorite thing about it was how easy it was to pick up and learn, and also how quickly you can play it all the way through.  I also really like how many people can play!  I was the generic blue/good character both times we played, so I’d really like to play again sometime and either be blue and have a special power, or try out being red.  I think the hardest thing about playing the game for me was that I never got to know anyone else’s identities going into the game like everyone else, so I was always just having to guess if people were good or evil based on their votes, which didn’t always work because a lot of times the evil characters were tricky.  I also had relatively little information to go off of when trying to choose who to take on quests with me.  Another aspect of the game I particularly appreciated was how you could vote on whether or not to let a quest occur, because that keeps the game from being broken in the evil characters’ favor.  For my specific case, this game taught me more about following than leading, because I did have a lot less knowledge than other people on who was good and who could potentially be evil.  I just had to learn to trust others based on their votes, and then trust that the people they chose to quest with were probably also good.  I usually just operated on a basis of trusting people until they proved me otherwise.  I did accuse one other player of potentially being evil in the first game and she ended up being good, and that taught me a lesson in making assumptions and jumping to conclusions when I didn’t have the proper information to do so.  One of my best friends would love this game because she loves games of secret identity.  From experience playing Werewolf with her, I know that she is so good at hiding when she is evil, so I would definitely want to be on the same side as her if we played this together.  I actually ordered a copy of this game online for myself after playing it in class because I enjoyed it so much and it was so reasonably priced.