Unbalanced mafia games

[JDodge]

If it's not weighted in either the scum or town direction, then it is by definition "balanced".

You're looking for "swingy", which is down the hall and to the left.

[JDodge]

Swinginess is bad. It's not unacceptable, but it's a good idea to avoid it.

Setup design is an abstract. It is impossible to call any one quality of it "bad".

[JDodge]

Swinginess is bad. It's not unacceptable, but it's a good idea to avoid it.

Setup design is an abstract. It is impossible to call any one quality of it "bad".

I'm using the word "bad" in the same sense as it would be used to describe the cop-doc combo.

I'm also using the word swinginess not to mean 'powerful roles' in general, but as in the amount that the game is likely to disbalance itself as it goes on, generally due to pseudo-random factors. For example, having all the town being vanilla except from one extremely powerful role is swingy, because that role could be killed pseudo-randomly leaving the game much less balanced from that point on.

How is bad any less relative there?