KittyTacky's Mini Normal Review, May 2022

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Town Compulsive Vigilante
Town Backup Compulsive Vigilante
Town 1-Shot Bulletproof
Town 3-Shot Tracker
Town Traffic Analyst
Vanilla Townie
Vanilla Townie
Vanilla Townie
Vanilla Townie
Vanilla Townie
Mafia Goon
Mafia Role Cop
Mafia Informed 1-Shot Neighborizer

Mafia have daytalk and are multitasking. The informed mafioso gets the message "There is a town Traffic Analyst." in their role PM. The theme will be "Roguelikes", covering the history and common gameplay mechanics of roguelike games.

I want a compulsive vig and a backup compulsive vig, I don't want to drop them at all. I like the Neighborizer/Traffic Analyst interaction but I can begrudgingly part with it.

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Primary: Datisi
Secondary: implosion

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Roguelikes are a nice theme for a normal. I have been playing much rogue legacy 2.

One note if you want a compulsive role: make sure you're familiar with the normal rules for them (basically, it's just to avoid having a random resolution).

Spoiler: Setup opinion (if Datisi wants to go in unbiased)

At a very quick glance I think this is probably either balanced or in the vicinity of it. Town gets 2 conftown in the vigs, a potentially slightly scummy 1-shot bp, a fairly powerful tracker given that there's lots of interesting things they could find (though they could also mistakenly see a vig shooting), and the traffic analyst is

almost

a cop. It's quite a bit of raw power and I think it definitely justifies a full rolecop for scum. I'd even go so far as to say it could be worth bumping the goon to a backup rolecop or something, because scum are gonna be in for a rough one if they lose the rolecop early. But that's also not entirely a buff for scum since it dying would give away the existence of a main rolecop and it'd make the tracker stronger.

But yeah, this is quite a lot of raw town power - 3 roles I'd describe as strong, 1 as medium (tracker is normally maybe medium-weak but it's quite good here even gated, though 3-shot tracker is sorta an awkward decision of when to use it so shrug), and one as relatively weak (the 1-shot bp has potential to earn an extra mislim but it also could be found by the rolecop or a vig or something).

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I think if Datisi still feels it's townsided (which I think it well could be) another reasonable change is to gate the traffic analyst, maybe with novice or something like that.

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Do you feel novice TA is balanced or still townsided

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Tracker should technically have a result for visiting multiple players, since scum multitask.

I don't think there's a standard for this but backup compulsive vig should have to submit a list of players either at the start of the game, or when they become compulsive vig. If the former, it needs to be in the role PM; if the latter, it needs to be a sort of pseudo-result PM that can be prepared in advance.

I'd change "kill" to "nightkill" in the BP pm for clarity that it doesn't work on lims.

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Every option is a little bit bad . I don't think it overly matters which one you pick.