[OLD] Open Setup Discussion and Nominations

[Shanba]

Assassination sounds a bit swingy, tbh. The town could get unlucky and lose night 1 whereas the scum could lose by night 2.

[Shanba]

What happens if a target gets lynched? Who's win condition does that count towards?

[Shanba]

YB, I can't help but think that that whole setup idea would be better run as a theme game.

I like Simenon's suggestion. No idea as to whether it's balanced though.

[Shanba]

Interesting. Depending on who dies, an innocent or a guilty result might become more useful. Also, it might be a valid strategy for the scum to claim cop, knowing that the cops out there don't know who the other one is and therefore assume that the claimant is. I like that setup.

[Shanba]

Love is in the Air mafia

2 lovers (masons who die together)
2lovers
4 townies
2 linked scum (die together)
2 linked scum

All the scum are in the same scumgroup

This basically came from me thinking how to balance a 6p setup. Linking two of the townies seemed the way to go about it, but even then it simply becomes a one lynch game, which seemed off. So I doubled everything. There's room for mafia fake claiming lovers or claim townies. There's disincentives for lovers to claim just to confirm innocence. I'd like some thoughts though.

[Shanba]

Because in order to counterclaim scum claiming lovers, both sets of lovers would have to come out, and they couldn't be sure that the other group wasn't the second pair or not. Also, even if one pair of the scum were counterclaimed by bothpairs of lovers, that's still a 2 in 3 chance that the scum will win (wrong set of lovers lynched, other set of lovers nked).

[Shanba]

mm. I don't see any reason why the traitor should auto-lose if he's the last scum. I don't see why he should get a nk either though. It would just turn the game into a nightless game (although if the cop is still alive, he's in trouble: but he should still be able to win).

[Shanba]

Why shouldn't you be using the 50% endgame rule? I always assumed that was standard. At any rate, if you decide that the town don't need to kill the traitor, that means they only need two successful lynches with 8 townies and a cop. Which seems unbalanced, imo.

[Shanba]

I also like that setup. We definitely need an open setup with lovers in.

[Shanba]

Rofl. I thought she'd misspelt dinner and had an image of some of the guests getting so impatient waiting for food that they took matters into their own hands.

[Shanba]

PGO is probably a paranoid gun owner (kills the guy who targets him), not sure about SEAG

[Shanba]

That's like two-headed mafia

[Shanba]

what do you mean by trainee? It's not clear what differentiates a trainee and a normal role.

[Shanba]

What would happen in a situation where noone alive had a vote?

[Shanba]

Like Mith's setup up there, a lot.

[Shanba]

Can town actually win that? Not in theory, but in practice?

[Shanba]

Nominate Near-Vanilla

[Shanba]

ooh

Nominate Monks and Masons

[Shanba]

Cromwell mafia sounds awesome, Pooky

[Shanba]

Kelly replied, and her reply pretty much covered the essentials. It would be better to use that sort of thing as a hidden element in a theme - perhaps a power that allows a one off deletion of a post, or a once per day deletion of a post so that the players aren't prepared for it by having the whole thing written on their hard drive.

[Shanba]

2:10 Vanilla should be renamed Mountainous, simply cause that name seems to cause more interest than Vanilla.

[Shanba]

Huh, I see.

Pablito, why not break your habit and go /in for it? <.<

[Shanba]

Second Mini Love

I like lover roles.