[SETUP] The Prophecy Foretells His Coming

[Irrelephant11]

6 VT
1 Chosen One (who is told they're a VT)
2 Goons

At the start of the game, three randomly determined players who are NOT The Chosen One are put in a neighborhood and told who The Chosen One is. The mod announces who is in the neighborhood.

If the Chosen One is alive at the start of N3, the mod notifies them they are the Chosen One, & they make the N3 kill instead of mafia.

Otherwise, mountainous.

[Irrelephant11]

2 masons, 5 vts, and 2 goons is usually considered balanced. This adds a possible N3 vig.

The chosen one will never be eliminated during the day, so while yes, mafia could just kill them N1 if they're in the neighborhood, town would know that there's scum in the neighborhood.

Point being: your idea does sound kinda nice but is too townsided, and I think this setup still works if mafia is in the neighborhood, though maybe it's slightly scumsided

[Irrelephant11]

This setup doesn't ever have 3 masons. Even if three town are put in the neighborhood they are not sure of each other's alignment

A neighborhood with 2 scum in it have to either:
- work extra hard on play-acting that they're obfuscating the Chosen One's alignment (including not immediately killing the chosen one)
- kill the Chosen One and then avoid the scrutiny that comes with that

[Irrelephant11]

Okay! Thoughts on this as a 13p? If you just add a goon and 3 townies and keep everything else the same?

[Irrelephant11]

setup redo

7vt
1 Chosen One (told they’re a VT)
2 masons (informed of the Chosen One)
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3 Goons

If the Chosen One is alive at the start of N1, they become informed they’re the Chosen One.
If the Chosen One is alive at the start of N3, they make the nightkill instead of mafia.
If the Chosen One is alive at the start of N5, they choose a player. That player’s alignment is revealed at the start of D6. Also, the mafia don’t get to make a nightkill – instead, the Chosen One dies.