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[manda2014]

Ash, what do you think of Archetype's suggestion here:

I think its balanced. At least, for real life Mafia. If you want more roles, I think 3 Vanilla Townies/Town Cop/Town Doc/Mafia Roleblocker/Mafia Godfather could work well IRL.

It mitigates the Doctor/Cop brokenness by including a roleblocker. It looks fun to me. The main difference is trading the in-the-spotlight pressure on the IC for the behind-the-scenes pressure on the doctor. Probably both are good, and I think that hiding the roles on the flip prevent the doctor from being OP in both scenarios.

Hiding roles on the flip sounds good to me. I'm more inclined to say we do the IC rather than the doctor, but mostly because we've already done doctor and I'd like to try out/expose this group to a wide variety of roles.

I really really just want them all to like playing enough that we can get a big game going in January XD

[ashersky]

Ash, what do you think of Archetype's suggestion here:

I think its balanced. At least, for real life Mafia. If you want more roles, I think 3 Vanilla Townies/Town Cop/Town Doc/Mafia Roleblocker/Mafia Godfather could work well IRL.

It mitigates the Doctor/Cop brokenness by including a roleblocker. It looks fun to me. The main difference is trading the in-the-spotlight pressure on the IC for the behind-the-scenes pressure on the doctor. Probably both are good, and I think that hiding the roles on the flip prevent the doctor from being OP in both scenarios.

I agree that it would be fine, balance-wise.

I guess it depends on what you are looking to get out of the game.  It's IRL, it's with real people that you know.  Are they going to prefer the focus on daytime scum hunting more, or will they like the night action results stuff?  The more roles you include, the more people focus on nights and claims.

And that's cool, but it needs to be what you want.

[Dsell]

And...roles are being assigned! We are going with Ashersky's version with the IC. I only know this because she's sitting next to me drawing names from a hat. XD

[manda2014]

And...roles are being assigned! We are going with Ashersky's version with the IC. I only know this because she's sitting next to me drawing names from a hat. XD

I think you're confused about what qualifies as a hat.

[Dsell]

And...roles are being assigned! We are going with Ashersky's version with the IC. I only know this because she's sitting next to me drawing names from a hat. XD

I think you're confused about what qualifies as a hat.

Hey I wasn't looking. It's an expression.

[ashersky]

Dsell, if you can be silly here, go be silly in BM14.

Also, manda, wtf for not signing up for games.

[manda2014]

Dsell, if you can be silly here, go be silly in BM14.

Also, manda, wtf for not signing up for games.

I keep telling him to post in there! I'm trying to read along and it's going so sloooooow.

I'm entertaining thoughts of signing up (again, finally). But I can't add a game until Christmas break. Maybe Mafia and the Chocolate Factory. Dsell is always giving me crap about fizzling out in the last (and only) game I played. XD

[manda2014]

I keep telling him to post in there! I'm trying to read along and it's going so sloooooow.

To be fair, the last game I followed very closely was a MASSIVE one two summers ago and anytime I went more than an hour or so without checking for updates I would have PAGES AND PAGES to read.

[manda2014]

Kicking off game 2 in about ten minutes! People seem to be getting into it a little more this time around. I'm really excited to see how it goes.

[manda2014]

They hit scum day 1 this time! Things are looking up for town.

[ashersky]

They hit scum day 1 this time! Things are looking up for town.

They lynched an hour and a half into the game?

[Dsell]

They hit scum day 1 this time! Things are looking up for town.

They lynched an hour and a half into the game?

The game started late last night. We've had all day to talk, and we all came together earlier this evening to vote. Voting took 45 minutes to an hour.

[ashersky]

They hit scum day 1 this time! Things are looking up for town.

They lynched an hour and a half into the game?

The game started late last night. We've had all day to talk, and we all came together earlier this evening to vote. Voting took 45 minutes to an hour.

Huh.  Manda said at 10:51 p.m. that the game was tarting in 10 minutes, then at 12:21 a.m. that they lynched scum.  Here it looks like two hours.  Weird.

[Dsell]

Yeah, she meant first voting round. The game started last night (not long after she posted about assigning roles) and there was actually quite a lot of talk and scheming on day one from what I could tell...having an IC neighbor does that.

[manda2014]

They hit scum day 1 this time! Things are looking up for town.

They lynched an hour and a half into the game?

The game started late last night. We've had all day to talk, and we all came together earlier this evening to vote. Voting took 45 minutes to an hour.

Huh.  Manda said at 10:51 p.m. that the game was tarting in 10 minutes, then at 12:21 a.m. that they lynched scum.  Here it looks like two hours.  Weird.

Oops, sorry! Meant voting. It's weird because people can scheme all day, but actual "play" involving the ability to vote only happens in the evening.

[manda2014]

Looks like town has day 2 tied up pretty nicely.... Dsell is the cop and he's had the mafia nailed from the beginning.

[Dsell]

Looks like town has day 2 tied up pretty nicely.... Dsell is the cop and he's had the mafia nailed from the beginning.

Wut wut! I'm discovering that I'm quite a bit better at playing town with people I know.

[manda2014]

Looks like town has day 2 tied up pretty nicely.... Dsell is the cop and he's had the mafia nailed from the beginning.

Wut wut! I'm discovering that I'm quite a bit better at playing town with people I know.

Literally every person is like "omg you're impossible to read omg you're so good at this game I'm so intimidated."

[manda2014]

Oh look town won.

Verdict on 7-person real-life mafia.... it's lacking a lot. Both sides can win in two days and one night under optimal conditions. It's still fun, but I'm really hoping we can get a bigger game going.

[ashersky]

Oh look town won.

Verdict on 7-person real-life mafia.... it's lacking a lot. Both sides can win in two days and one night under optimal conditions. It's still fun, but I'm really hoping we can get a bigger game going.

You could go with one mafia.  That'd be either a really fast or really slow game.

[manda2014]

Oh look town won.

Verdict on 7-person real-life mafia.... it's lacking a lot. Both sides can win in two days and one night under optimal conditions. It's still fun, but I'm really hoping we can get a bigger game going.

You could go with one mafia.  That'd be either a really fast or really slow game.

Either way, that sounds like it has a lot of potential to be really boring. Fingers crossed for a 13p game in January

[Dsell]

Looks like town has day 2 tied up pretty nicely.... Dsell is the cop and he's had the mafia nailed from the beginning.

Wut wut! I'm discovering that I'm quite a bit better at playing town with people I know.

Literally every person is like "omg you're impossible to read omg you're so good at this game I'm so intimidated."

This is really fun. :>

My resistance meta of being a fairly undetectable spy is carrying over, even though I've been town in both games.

[manda2014]

Looks like town has day 2 tied up pretty nicely.... Dsell is the cop and he's had the mafia nailed from the beginning.

Wut wut! I'm discovering that I'm quite a bit better at playing town with people I know.

Literally every person is like "omg you're impossible to read omg you're so good at this game I'm so intimidated."

This is really fun. :>

My resistance meta of being a fairly undetectable spy is carrying over, even though I've been town in both games.

I have half a mind to just engineer the next game to make you mafia.