:( Shadows Over Camelot.

I sad face because I won. We played a six player game (five people had played before and one new guy) with the traitor rules on Friday. I was playing King Arthur and ended up being the traitor, so I was quickly able to get rid of the three special white cards I started with at the Excalibur quest. The group made some poor decisions early on and spread themselves too thin across the different quests. They probably would have been okay if I hadn't been encouraging adding catapults as our bad actions the whole time.

Things got interesting two turns from me getting Excalibur when one of the players accused the new guy of being the traitor. The new guy had been making some not so optimal choices and even though we discussed it as probably just an unfortunate fact of him being new, the other player still went through with the accusation. Flip one white sword. Suddenly everyone else was suspicious and I got them to waste another good action accusing the accuser the next turn. Flip the only remaining white sword to black. Two players later, I throw down my Fate card and reveal myself as the traitor, forcing players at the Saxons and Pict areas to both lose both of their quests 4 cards in. I also had Excalibur at that point and the next player drew an Excalibur quest card, so the five surprise catapults in two turns lost them the game.

That game does not feel good when the traitor wins like that. I felt kind of bad for winning. Everyone had a bad taste in their mouth after the round of accusations and then the unpreventable loss. Normally when I pull this game out, I have >50% new players so we just play without a traitor (usually, I deal out the loyalty cards anyway, but with the traitor card intentionally removed). I feel like Shadows might get shelved for awhile.