I’m not sure how to formalize this, but I think you can be emotional in a playful way that sort of transparently emulates real emotional responses. I haven’t played many social board games so I can’t speak from experience, it’s just that imagining the situation my first response is “transparently act betrayed and insulted, so people understand both that you don’t mean it seriously and why you don’t help them”.
Wrap it in emotions. People understand emotions.
What do you mean, specifically? “Having fun” aside, being emotional about a game is socially harmful/uncool in the same way a precommitment can be.
I’m not sure how to formalize this, but I think you can be emotional in a playful way that sort of transparently emulates real emotional responses. I haven’t played many social board games so I can’t speak from experience, it’s just that imagining the situation my first response is “transparently act betrayed and insulted, so people understand both that you don’t mean it seriously and why you don’t help them”.