We have 16 players, so 4-5 should be the magic number for the bad guys. Emphasis on 'should'. We're also big enough we should be expecting a high-prob of a third party, a party that might be more than just one player. We don't seem to have much to work off from the intro message. We know a few things, we are playing a crossover game of WoT with some vampire series. So that might provide some clues, if anyone knows anything about that series. Maybe our DF/mafia types are vamps? As opposed to black ajah last game and carheinen nobles fighting for the crown the time before that... which reminds me I AM the King!, sorry, been meaning to say that. Before then we had some people following Rand and Mat.

Now on each of these last three occassions there was a new emphasis on theme and they were some clues from the storyline itself, whether we or the mod realized it. Such was often the case in previous games too, but primarily only in hindsight.

We may be looking at more than one crossover, but in the pregame discussion we got a big hint at what one of them was going to be, and of course, we know it's in WoT.

Maybe we should consider our first table then, because we need to get the game going and this is the ebst I can think of. Everybody declares what series they are from. Not role, name, origin, species, dietary habits, etc, just what series they are from, or "Don't know". What to we think of this idea?