I'm another person who enjoyed that Unathi Wizard round the other day, and it made me confident wizard should not be in the secret rotation; it has more room for no-RP gimmicks than any other gamemode, and almost incentivizes them with its WACKY!!! nature. I've had too many wizard rounds at this point where it was just 'lets chase the wizard for 2 hours.' Now, I've had the same experience with other antags; namely ninjas and burglars. But I've also had far more interesting experiences with burglars at the least. With wizard, I've only enjoyed one round and that was because the wizard was dead an hour in. I have yet to see a gimmick that extends beyond 'you're a statue now', 'blind and run', and 'FIREBALL FIREBALL FIREBALL.' In fact, I believe my second round here I got fireballed by a wizard within 3 lines of meeting them as a poor miner. Had I not been familiar with the SS13 format and this gamemode, I probably would have just fucked off at this point because that's the least engaging RP in the world, and this tends to be most wizards.
However, with Loner in particular, I can't think of a round I found actively a chore to play. There's been some boring ones, sure, but I've yet to find a loner that pulls anything of the same sort. I think loner should just be considered a replacement to wizard, given nobody's going to port technomancer any time soon.
I've heard there are interesting wizard gimmicks, to be fair, but in my three weeks of playing here (not the biggest sample by any means) I've seen none of them and instead only situations that make my character suddenly very sleepy, as well as apparently everyone else on the station. This probably reads as a saltpost, and it definitely is one.
